perl5141delta - what is new for perl v5.14.1



NAME

perl5141delta - what is new for perl v5.14.1


DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.14.0 release and the 5.14.1 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.0, first read the perl5140delta manpage, which describes differences between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0.


Core Enhancements

No changes since 5.14.0.


Security

No changes since 5.14.0.


Incompatible Changes

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.14.0. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.


Deprecations

There have been no deprecations since 5.14.0.


Modules and Pragmata

New Modules and Pragmata

None

Updated Modules and Pragmata

Removed Modules and Pragmata

None


Documentation

New Documentation

None

Changes to Existing Documentation

the perlfunc manpage

the perllol manpage

the perlop manpage

the perlrun manpage

the POSIX manpage


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 the perldiag manpage.

New Diagnostics

None

Changes to Existing Diagnostics

None


Utility Changes

None


Configuration and Compilation


Testing


Platform Support

New Platforms

None

Discontinued Platforms

None

Platform-Specific Notes

Solaris

Mac OS X

Ubuntu Linux


Internal Changes


Bug Fixes


Acknowledgements

Perl 5.14.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since Perl 5.14.0 and contains approximately 3500 lines of changes across 38 files from 17 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.14.1:

Bo Lindbergh, Claudio Ramirez, Craig A. Berry, David Leadbeater, Father Chrysostomos, Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Justin Case, Karl Williamson, Leo Lapworth, Nicholas Clark, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, smash, Tom Christiansen, Ton Hospel, Vladimir Timofeev, and Zsbán Ambrus.


Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of perl -V, will be sent off to perlbug@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 please send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.


SEE ALSO

The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.

The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.

The README file for general stuff.

The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.

 perl5141delta - what is new for perl v5.14.1