In perl.git, the branch maint-5.26 has been updated
<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/9ec3ac9791626db966d2845d3ecd305ad01a313b?hp=19777c842fd48f53f70ecebdd1fd070970f91587>
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commit 9ec3ac9791626db966d2845d3ecd305ad01a313b
Author: Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 18:44:16 2017 +0100
perldelta - Tidy-ups
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commit 7e98003b17ab5ba85429f5af80ab91f1843892bb
Author: Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 18:12:58 2017 +0100
perldelta - Remove boilerplate except Security and Acknowledgements
M pod/perldelta.pod
commit cca9405fa1120f33756bf1c04344bee7d57db6a4
Author: Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 18:03:34 2017 +0100
perldelta - Update Modules
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commit 0801ccf3d4d8b9cc41d0aadeb11b91a5995c7049
Author: Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 11:52:53 2017 +0100
perldelta - Update with selected bug fixes etc
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commit ef23280024067f1d5e764e20cc6d765cac208c7b
Author: Tony Cook <t...@develop-help.com>
Date: Mon Jul 10 16:51:18 2017 +1000
perldelta for 6091bd4ca4a4
(cherry picked from commit 3072e7590c6345bcdd3e68ceb789160139beb412)
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commit 3dfa725d9e34117245e808ed1233f45dfa390d98
Author: Tony Cook <t...@develop-help.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 10:57:14 2017 +0100
perldelta for 67c3640a57440a
(cherry picked from commit 43901c14b88e29ab163687f16d4934b3d66d3b7c)
M pod/perldelta.pod
commit 132d758c97b5d710affe82c4510d2863d6b1258f
Author: Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 9 10:55:49 2017 +0100
perldelta - Fill in RT number for cherry pick of b54564c32e
(The original commit's RT number was wrong - it was actually #131732,
not #131627.)
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commit ada831c8853af04ba6ecb34f944a99b7fbaf3c3b
Author: Aaron Crane <a...@cpan.org>
Date: Sat Sep 9 10:53:23 2017 +0100
Add some perldelta entries for 5.27.2
(manually cherry picked from commit
ab9a6a636dbb66ae5bf3f7546a87872aa295f96d)
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 334 +++++++++++-------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 0b9e91d54c..a5ac950c69 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-[ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as XXX needs
-to be processed before release. ]
-
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.26.1
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -12,20 +9,8 @@ perldelta - what is new for perl v5.26.1
This document describes differences between the 5.26.0 release and the 5.26.1
release.
-If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.25.0, first read
-L<perl5260delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.0 and 5.26.0.
-
-=head1 Notice
-
-XXX Any important notices here
-
-=head1 Core Enhancements
-
-XXX New core language features go here. Summarize user-visible core language
-enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
-here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
-
-[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
+If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read
+L<perl5260delta>, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.26.0.
=head1 Security
@@ -37,61 +22,9 @@ L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
=head1 Incompatible Changes
-XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
-
- There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX
- If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a
- report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below.
-
-[ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ]
-
-=head1 Deprecations
-
-XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here.
-
-=head2 Module removals
-
-XXX Remove this section if inapplicable.
-
-The following modules will be removed from the core distribution in a
-future release, and will at that time need to be installed from CPAN.
-Distributions on CPAN which require these modules will need to list them as
-prerequisites.
-
-The core versions of these modules will now issue C<"deprecated">-category
-warnings to alert you to this fact. To silence these deprecation warnings,
-install the modules in question from CPAN.
-
-Note that these are (with rare exceptions) fine modules that you are encouraged
-to continue to use. Their disinclusion from core primarily hinges on their
-necessity to bootstrapping a fully functional, CPAN-capable Perl installation,
-not usually on concerns over their design.
-
-=over
-
-=item XXX
-
-XXX Note that deprecated modules should be listed here even if they are listed
-as an updated module in the L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
-
-=back
-
-[ List each other deprecation as a =head2 entry ]
-
-=head1 Performance Enhancements
-
-XXX Changes which enhance performance without changing behaviour go here.
-There may well be none in a stable release.
-
-[ List each enhancement as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX
-
-=back
+There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.26.0. If any exist,
+they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See L</Reporting
+Bugs> below.
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
@@ -103,264 +36,133 @@ XXX
L<base> has been upgraded from version 2.25 to 2.26.
+The effects of dotless C<@INC> on this module have been limited by the
+introduction of a more refined and accurate solution for removing C<'.'> from
+C<@INC> while reducing the false positives.
+
=item *
L<charnames> has been upgraded from version 1.44 to 1.45.
=item *
-L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20170530 to 5.20170903.
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20170530 to 5.20170922_26.
=back
-=head1 Documentation
-
-XXX Changes to files in F<pod/> go here. Consider grouping entries by
-file and be sure to link to the appropriate page, e.g. L<perlfunc>.
-
-=head2 New Documentation
-
-XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here.
-
-=head3 L<XXX>
-
-XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here
-
-=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
-
-XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
-However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
-section.
+=head1 Platform Support
-=head3 L<XXX>
+=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
=over 4
-=item *
-
-XXX Description of the change here
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Diagnostics
-
-The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
-including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
-diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
-
-XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here. Also
-include any changes in L<perldiag> that reconcile it to the C<C> code.
-
-=head2 New Diagnostics
-
-XXX Newly added diagnostic messages go under here, separated into New Errors
-and New Warnings
-
-=head3 New Errors
+=item FreeBSD
=over 4
=item *
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
+Building with B<g++> on FreeBSD-11.0 has been fixed.
+L<[perl #131337]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131337>
=back
-=head3 New Warnings
+=item Windows
=over 4
=item *
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
-
-XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
-
-=over 4
+Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
+(containing Visual C++ 14.1) has been added.
=item *
-XXX Describe change here
+Building XS modules with GCC 6 in a 64-bit build of Perl failed due to
+incorrect mapping of C<strtoll> and C<strtoull>. This has now been fixed.
+L<[perl #131726]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131726>
+L<[cpan #121683]|https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=121683>
+L<[cpan #122353]|https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122353>
=back
-=head1 Utility Changes
-
-XXX Changes to installed programs such as F<perlbug> and F<xsubpp> go here.
-Most of these are built within the directory F<utils>.
-
-[ List utility changes as a =head2 entry for each utility and =item
-entries for each change
-Use L<XXX> with program names to get proper documentation linking. ]
-
-=head2 L<XXX>
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX
-
=back
-=head1 Configuration and Compilation
-
-XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
-go here. Any other changes to the Perl build process should be listed here.
-However, any platform-specific changes should be listed in the
-L</Platform Support> section, instead.
-
-[ List changes as a =item entry ].
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
=over 4
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Testing
-
-XXX Any significant changes to the testing of a freshly built perl should be
-listed here. Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here as do any
-large changes to the testing harness (e.g. when parallel testing was added).
-Changes to existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarizing, although the bugs
-that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
-
-[ List each test improvement as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
+Several built-in functions previously had bugs that could cause them to write
+to the internal stack without allocating room for the item being written. In
+rare situations, this could have led to a crash. These bugs have now been
+fixed, and if any similar bugs are introduced in future, they will be detected
+automatically in debugging builds.
+L<[perl #131732]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131732>
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Platform Support
-
-XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below.
-
-[ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific
-changes as paragraphs below it. ]
-
-=head2 New Platforms
-
-XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous
-versions did not. These will either be enabled by new files in the F<hints/>
-directories, or new subdirectories and F<README> files at the top level of the
-source tree.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item XXX-some-platform
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Discontinued Platforms
-
-XXX List any platforms that this version of perl no longer compiles on.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Windows
-
-=over 4
+Using a symbolic ref with postderef syntax as the key in a hash lookup was
+yielding an assertion failure on debugging builds.
+L<[perl #131627]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131627>
=item *
-Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
-(containing Visual C++ 14.1) has been added.
-
-=back
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
-
-XXX List any changes for specific platforms. This could include configuration
-and compilation changes or changes in portability/compatibility. However,
-changes within modules for platforms should generally be listed in the
-L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item XXX-some-platform
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Internal Changes
-
-XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here. Other
-significant internal changes for future core maintainers should be noted as
-well.
-
-[ List each change as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
+List assignment (C<aassign>) could in some rare cases allocate an entry on the
+mortal stack and leave the entry uninitialized.
+L<[perl #131570]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131570>
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+Attempting to apply an attribute to an C<our> variable where a function of that
+name already exists could result in a NULL pointer being supplied where an SV
+was expected, crashing perl.
+L<[perl #131597]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131597>
-XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarized here. Bug fixes in
-files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
+=item *
-[ List each fix as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
+The code that vivifies a typeglob out of a code ref made some false assumptions
+that could lead to a crash in cases such as C<< $::{"A"} = sub {}; \&{"A"} >>.
+This has now been fixed.
+L<[perl #131085]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131085>
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
+C<my_atof2> no longer reads beyond the terminating NUL, which previously
+occurred if the decimal point is immediately before the NUL.
+L<[perl #131526]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131526>
-=head1 Known Problems
+=item *
-XXX Descriptions of platform agnostic bugs we know we can't fix go here. Any
-tests that had to be C<TODO>ed for the release would be noted here. Unfixed
-platform specific bugs also go here.
+Occasional "Malformed UTF-8 character" crashes in C<s//> on utf8 strings have
+been fixed.
+L<[perl #131575]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131575>
-[ List each fix as a =item entry ]
+=item *
-=over 4
+C<perldoc -f s> now finds C<s///>.
+L<[perl #131371]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131371>
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
+Some erroneous warnings after utf8 conversion have been fixed.
+L<[perl #131190]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131190>
-=head1 Errata From Previous Releases
+=item *
-=over 4
+The C<jmpenv> frame to catch Perl exceptions is set up lazily, and this used to
+be a bit too lazy. The catcher is now set up earlier, preventing some possible
+crashes.
+L<[perl #105930]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=105930>
=item *
-XXX Add anything here that we forgot to add, or were mistaken about, in
-the perldelta of a previous release.
+Spurious "Assuming NOT a POSIX class" warnings have been removed.
+L<[perl #131522]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131522>
=back
-=head1 Obituary
-
-XXX If any significant core contributor has died, we've added a short obituary
-here.
-
=head1 Acknowledgements
XXX Generate this with:
@@ -380,13 +182,13 @@ will be sent off to perl...@perl.org to be analysed by
the Perl porting team.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see
-L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
-for details of how to report the issue.
+L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> for details of how to
+report the issue.
=head1 Give Thanks
-If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5,
-you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
+If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you
+can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
perlthanks
--
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