PERL5302DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5302DELTA(1) #

PERL5302DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5302DELTA(1)

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 perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2

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 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.

IInnccoommppaattiibbllee CChhaannggeess 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.

MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa UUppddaatteedd MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa • Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.

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

DDooccuummeennttaattiioonn CChhaannggeess ttoo EExxiissttiinngg DDooccuummeennttaattiioonn 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.

CCoonnffiigguurraattiioonn aanndd CCoommppiillaattiioonn • GCC 10 is now supported by _C_o_n_f_i_g_u_r_e.

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

PPllaattffoorrmm SSuuppppoorrtt PPllaattffoorrmm--SSppeecciiffiicc NNootteess Windows The MYMALLOC (PERL_MALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed.

SSeelleecctteedd BBuugg FFiixxeess • pprriinnttff(()) or sspprriinnttff(()) 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>]

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

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

 •   A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.

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

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

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

 •   "(?{...})" 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>]

AAcckknnoowwlleeddggeemmeennttss 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
 Písař, 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 _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 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.

GGiivvee TThhaannkkss 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.

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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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