In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8ab76fe673a6ca72ed127e6a37ce1038b9462f1b?hp=ba570843add681d44ff50ff219d1ce000a961663>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 8ab76fe673a6ca72ed127e6a37ce1038b9462f1b Author: David Mitchell <[email protected]> Date: Mon May 22 11:18:03 2017 +0100 perldelta: update @INC blurb in Notice The original text got mangled when applied; I've readded the missing sentence, and reworded things slightly to be a more informative initial mention of what the issue is (like mentioning that the change is for security reasons). This should hopefully cover anything that was missed in the text removed by 2c4393cceb72ac358b. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 829b3a2bc9..a2c99fddb5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ This release includes three updates with widespread effects: =item * C<.> no longer in C<@INC> -The current modules, and for the execution of scripts. See the section -L<< Removal of the current directory (C<.>) from C<@INC> >> for the full details. +For security reasons, the current directory (C<.>) is no longer included +by default at the end of the module search path (C<@INC>). This may have +widespread implications for the building, testing and installing of +modules, and for the execution of scripts. See the section +L<< Removal of the current directory (C<.>) from C<@INC> >> +for the full details. =item * C<do> may now warn -- Perl5 Master Repository
