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NAME

perl5201delta - what is new for perl v5.20.1

DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.20.0 release and the 5.20.1 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.18.0, first read perl5200delta, which describes differences between 5.18.0 and 5.20.0.

Incompatible Changes

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0. If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See "Reporting Bugs" below.

Performance Enhancements

Modules and Pragmata

Updated Modules and Pragmata

Documentation

Changes to Existing Documentation

perlapi

perlfunc

perlguts

perlpolicy

perlre

perlsyn

perlxs

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 perldiag.

Changes to Existing Diagnostics

Configuration and Compilation

Platform Support

Platform-Specific Notes

Android

Build support has been improved for cross-compiling in general and for Android in particular.

OpenBSD

Corrected architectures and version numbers used in configuration hints when building Perl.

Solaris

c99 options have been cleaned up, hints look for solstudio as well as SUNWspro, and support for native setenv has been added.

VMS

An old bug in feature checking, mainly affecting pre-7.3 systems, has been fixed.

Windows

%I64d is now being used instead of %lld for MinGW.

Internal Changes

Selected Bug Fixes

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.20.1 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl 5.20.0 and contains approximately 12,000 lines of changes across 170 files from 36 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 2,600 lines of changes to 110 .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 5.20.1:

Aaron Crane, Abigail, Alberto Simões, Alexandr Ciornii, Alexandre (Midnite) Jousset, Andrew Fresh, Andy Dougherty, Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, David Golden, David Mitchell, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Peacock, kafka, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Michael Bunk, Peter Martini, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Shirakata Kentaro, Smylers, Steve Hay, Thomas Sibley, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Vladimir Marek, 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 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 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 will 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.