Here lies the third and final release candidate:
ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/5.6.0/perl-5.6.0-RC3.patch.gz
ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/5.6.0/perl-5.6.0-RC3.tar.gz
And yes, the patch is against 5.5.670, but this here summary is against RC2.
Bug fixes:
+ open($fh[0],...) autovivifies properly
+ closures inherit attributes correctly
+ "\N{...}" used without "use charnames ..." produces better diagnostic
+ "\N{...}" enables utf8-ness of string correctly
+ return values from match in a list context, as well as $& et al
propagate utf8-ness (Graham Barr)
+ sort optimizer doesn't hang inside loops anymore
+ CHECK and INIT blocks encountered at run time provoke warnings
+ msgrcv(), shmread() and the shell and passwd fields of getpw*()
all taint (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
+ memory leak in fork() emulation fixed
+ queued errors show up correctly after after the "too many errors"
limit
+ parenthetic warnings look more consistent; diagnostic on
"use 5.6" et al mentions the alternate form
+ newSVuv() is now part of the API (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
+ attributes::reftype() consistently croaks on non-refs
+ attributes::reftype(*FOO{IO}) returns "IO" instead of "UNKNOWN"
(Tom Christiansen)
+ no more coredumps on more than one call to perl_construct() (Doug
MacEachern)
+ wrong type for syswrite() length argument fixed
Library:
+ $File::Find::name now correctly tracks top level files (Simon Cozens)
+ dumpvar.pl (and Dumpvalue.pm) recognize emptyness in arrays
(Matthias Urlichs)
+ Pod::Man correctly strips leading lib/ for module manpages (Russ
Allbery)
+ User::pwent fixups for new fields (Tom Christiansen);
+ Getopt::Long updated to v2.23 (Johan Vromans)
+ syntax errors in Thread::* gone (Tom Christiansen)
+ PodParser updated to v1.13 (Brad Appleton)
+ Fcntl supports obscure dosish O_ constants (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
Ports:
+ Configure doesn't use /tmp anymore (Andy Dougherty)
+ Configure man3dir bug fixed (Andy Dougherty)
+ FreeBSD hints are v5.* aware (Anton Berezin)
+ unused TryEnterCriticalSection() code gone, helps people still
stuck with the Windows of 1995
+ C<use vmsish 'hushed'> supported (Charles Lane)
+ PowerMAX hints fixups (Tom Horsley)
+ various VMS fixups (Charles Bailey and Dan Sugalski)
Utilities:
+ perlbug now asks for category and severity for bugtron (Richard Foley)
+ debugger defaults warnLevel and dieLevel to 0 (Tom Christiansen)
+ fixes for alias handling in debugger (Tom Christiansen)
+ xsubpp recognizes single-line declarations; switches to
disable newfangled features available (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ noTTY debugger option works again (Paul Marquess)
+ pod{man,text} updated from podlators-1.00 (Russ Allbery)
Pods:
+ perldelta now has a "Known Problems" section
+ various little nits corrected
It may be missing a few pod adjustments here and there, but everything
else in there has been pushed around as much as it can take. I've built
a large number of modules from CPAN with this on Linux, Solaris and
Windows. I daresay it all seems good enough to peddle on the streets.
The dragon rolled over. `Look!' he said. `What do you say to that?'
`Dazzlingly marvellous! Perfect! Flawless! Staggering!' exclaimed
Bilbo aloud, but what he thought inside was: `Old fool! Why there
is a large patch in the hollow of his left breast as bare as a snail
out of its shell!'
--Inside Information, The Hobbit,
J R R Tolkien
So tell me what you think. :-)
Sarathy
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