PERL5244DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5244DELTA(1) #
PERL5244DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5244DELTA(1)
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perl5244delta - what is new for perl v5.24.4
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This document describes differences between the 5.24.3 release and the
5.24.4 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.2, first read
perl5243delta, which describes differences between 5.24.2 and 5.24.3.
SSeeccuurriittyy [[CCVVEE--22001188--66779977]] hheeaapp--bbuuffffeerr--oovveerrffllooww ((WWRRIITTEE ooff ssiizzee 11)) iinn SS__rreeggaattoomm ((rreeggccoommpp..cc)) A crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written. [GH #16185] https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16185
[[CCVVEE--22001188--66779988]] HHeeaapp--bbuuffffeerr--oovveerrffllooww iinn PPeerrll____bbyyttee__dduummpp__ssttrriinngg ((uuttff88..cc)) Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression could cause a heap buffer read overflow and potentially information disclosure. [GH #16143] https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16143
[[CCVVEE--22001188--66991133]] hheeaapp--bbuuffffeerr--oovveerrffllooww iinn SS__ppaacckk__rreecc “pack()” could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count. [GH #16098] https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16098
AAsssseerrttiioonn ffaaiilluurree iinn PPeerrll____ccoorree__sswwaasshh__iinniitt ((uuttff88..cc)) Control characters in a supposed Unicode property name could cause perl to crash. This has been fixed. [perl #132055] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132055 [perl #132553] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132553 [perl #132658] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132658
IInnccoommppaattiibbllee CChhaannggeess There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.24.3. If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See “Reporting Bugs” below.
MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa UUppddaatteedd MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa • Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20170922_24 to 5.20180414_24.
SSeelleecctteedd BBuugg FFiixxeess • The “readpipe()” built-in function now checks at compile time that it has only one parameter expression, and puts it in scalar context, thus ensuring that it doesn’t corrupt the stack at runtime. [GH #2793] https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/2793
AAcckknnoowwlleeddggeemmeennttss Perl 5.24.4 represents approximately 7 months of development since Perl 5.24.3 and contains approximately 2,400 lines of changes across 49 files from 12 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 1,300 lines of changes to 12 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
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 5.24.4:
Abigail, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, John SJ Anderson, Karen Etheridge, Karl
Williamson, Renee Baecker, Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook,
Yves Orton, Zefram.
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 _A_U_T_H_O_R_S file in the Perl source distribution.
RReeppoorrttiinngg BBuuggss 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 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 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 see
"SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of
how to report the issue.
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The _C_h_a_n_g_e_s file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
what changed.
The _I_N_S_T_A_L_L file for how to build Perl.
The _R_E_A_D_M_E file for general stuff.
The _A_r_t_i_s_t_i_c and _C_o_p_y_i_n_g files for copyright information.
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