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commit 9e8e4a84c278536d3094b33ba0a7af5b04b31430
Author: Nicolas R <atoo...@cpan.org>
Date: Thu Feb 14 14:44:24 2019 -0700
perldelta prep setup for v5.29.8
This is a preparation commit for the future
Perl v5.29.8 release.
perldelta still contains some placeholder which
would need to be cleanup before release and would
also need to take into account any changes since
commit 5eabe055
Several sections have already been removed considering
they would not be used, feel free to restore them if required.
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 176 ++++++++++++++----------------------------------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 6b6d622f4f..6bed9abe59 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 v5.29.8
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -17,15 +14,15 @@ L<perl5297delta>, which describes differences between
5.29.6 and 5.29.7.
=head1 Notice
-XXX Any important notices here
+sv_utf8_(downgrade|decode) are no longer marked as experimental [perl #133788]
=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.
+=head2 Use faster method to convert to UTF-8
-[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
+There is a special inline function that's used when converting a single
+byte to UTF-8, that is faster than the more general one used prior to
+this commit.
=head2 Turkic UTF-8 locales are now seamlessly supported
@@ -37,56 +34,22 @@ rules for use with Turkic languages. Previously, Perl
ignored these,
but now, it uses them when it detects that it is operating under a
Turkic UTF-8 locale.
-=head1 Security
-
-XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security
-vulnerabilities closed should be noted here rather than in the
-L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
+=head2 Eliminate opASSIGN macro usage from core
-[ List each security issue as a =head2 entry ]
+This macro is still defined but no longer used in core
=head1 Incompatible Changes
=head2 JSON::PP enable allow_nonref by default
As JSON::XS 4.0 changed its policy and enabled allow_nonref
-by default, JSON::PP also enabled allow_nonref by default
-
-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.
-
-=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 ]
+by default, JSON::PP also enabled allow_nonref by default.
=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 an =item entry ]
-
=over 4
-=item *
-
-XXX
+Eliminate recursion from finalize_op() [perl #108276]
=back
@@ -139,27 +102,12 @@ L<XS::APItest> has been upgraded from version 0.99 to
1.00.
=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
We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes
listed in this document. If you find any we have missed, send email
to L<perl...@perl.org|mailto:perl...@perl.org>.
-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.
-
Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
=head3 L<perlfunc>
@@ -173,43 +121,35 @@ C<REGEXP> and why. [perl #133751]
=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
+=head3 L<perllocale>
=over 4
=item *
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
+There are actually two slightly different types of UTF-8 locales: one for
Turkic
+languages and one for everything else. Starting in Perl v5.30, Perl seamlessly
+handles both types.
=back
-=head3 New Warnings
+=head3 L<perlrecharclass>
=over 4
=item *
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
+Add a note for the ::xdigit:: character class.
=back
-=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
+=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 Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
+=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
=over 4
@@ -223,39 +163,17 @@ rather than complaining that they no longer work on
scalars. [perl
=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>
+=head1 Configuration and Compilation
=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 an =item entry ].
-
-=over 4
+Improve detection of memrchr, strlcat, and strlcpy
=item *
-XXX
+Improve Configure detection of memmem() [perl #133760].
=back
@@ -284,7 +202,19 @@ made:
=item *
-XXX
+t/lib/croak/op [perl #130367]
+
+separate error for push etc on hash/glob
+
+=item *
+
+t/op/svleak.t [perl #133660]
+
+add test for goto &sub in overload leaking
+
+=item *
+
+Split t/re/fold_grind.t into multiple test files
=back
@@ -365,43 +295,29 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in
L</Modules and Pragmata>.
=item *
Regular expression matching no longer leaves stale UTF-8 length magic
-when updating C<$^R>. This could result in C<length($^R)> returning
+when updating C<$^R>. This could result in C<length($^R)> returning
an incorrect value.
-=back
-
-=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.
+Fix a qr/[...]/ bug introduced in v5.29.7
-[ List each fix as an =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
+Using /il should not result in looking for a [:posix:] class
+that matches the code points given.
=item *
-XXX
-
-=back
+Reduce recursion on ops [perl #108276]
-=head1 Errata From Previous Releases
-
-=over 4
+This can prevent stack overflow when processing extremely deep op
+trees.
=item *
-XXX Add anything here that we forgot to add, or were mistaken about, in
-the perldelta of a previous release.
+Avoid leak in multiconcat with overloading. [perl #133789]
=back
-=head1 Obituary
-
-XXX If any significant core contributor or member of the CPAN community has
-died, add a short obituary here.
-
=head1 Acknowledgements
XXX Generate this with:
--
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