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perl5302delta (1)

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perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2

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Perl Programmers Reference Guide                              PERL5302DELTA(1)



NAME
       perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the
       5.30.2 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read
       perl5301delta, which describes differences between 5.30.0 and 5.30.1.

Incompatible Changes
       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0.  If any
       exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report.  See
       "Reporting Bugs" below.

Modules and Pragmata
   Updated Modules and Pragmata
       o   Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.

       o   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20191110 to
           5.20200314.

Documentation
   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
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.

Configuration and Compilation
       o   GCC 10 is now supported by Configure.

Testing
       Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
       in this release.

Platform Support
   Platform-Specific Notes
       Windows
           The MYMALLOC (PERL_MALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed.

Selected Bug Fixes
       o   printf() or sprintf() with the %n format no longer cause a panic on
           debugging builds, or report an incorrectly cached length value when
           producing "SVfUTF8" flagged strings.

           [GH #17221 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17221>]

       o   A memory leak in regular expression patterns has been fixed.

           [GH #17218 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17218>]

       o   A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.

           [GH #17370 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17370>]

       o   An assertion failure in the regular expression engine has been
           fixed.

           [GH #17372 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17372>]

       o   "(?{...})" eval groups in regular expressions no longer
           unintentionally trigger "EVAL without pos change exceeded limit in
           regex".

           [GH #17490 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17490>]

Acknowledgements
       Perl 5.30.2 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl
       5.30.1 and contains approximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110
       files from 15 authors.

       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
       were approximately 920 lines of changes to 30 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

       Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
       community of users and developers.  The following people are known to
       have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.30.2:

       Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden,
       Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R., Petr
       PisaX, Renee Baecker, Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook,
       Yves Orton.

       The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
       generated from version control history.  In particular, it does not
       include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
       reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.

       Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
       modules included in Perl's core.  We're grateful to the entire CPAN
       community for helping Perl to flourish.

       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

Reporting Bugs
       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
       database at <https://rt.perl.org/>.  There may also be information at
       <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.

       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  Be sure to trim your bug down
       to a tiny but sufficient test case.

       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
       inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
       VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
       report the issue.

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 "perlthanks" program:

           perlthanks

       This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
       thanks.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/perl-532      |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

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.



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.perl.org/.



perl v5.32.0                      2020-06-14                  PERL5302DELTA(1)