You are viewing the version of this documentation from Perl 5.37.6. This is a development version of Perl.

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NAME

perl5372delta - what is new for perl v5.37.2

DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.37.1 release and the 5.37.2 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.37.0, first read perl5371delta, which describes differences between 5.37.0 and 5.37.1.

Performance Enhancements

Modules and Pragmata

New Modules and Pragmata

Updated Modules and Pragmata

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, open an issue at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues.

Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:

Configuration and Compilation

Testing

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

Platform Support

Platform-Specific Notes

DragonflyBSD

Skip tests to workaround an apparent bug in setproctitle(). [github #19894]

FreeBSD

Replace the first part of archname with `uname -p` [github #19791]

Synology

Update Synology Readme for DSM 7.

Solaris

Avoid some compiler and compilation issues on NetBSD/Solaris from regexec.c and regcomp.c.

Windows

Fix win32 memory alignment needed for gcc-12 from vmem.h.

Internal Changes

Selected Bug Fixes

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.37.2 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.37.1 and contains approximately 35,000 lines of changes across 440 files from 24 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 30,000 lines of changes to 350 .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 5.37.2:

Branislav Zahradník, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÄker, Dan Kogai, David Mitchell, Felipe Gasper, Graham Knop, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Karl Williamson, Kenichi Ishigaki, Leon Timmermans, Loren Merritt, Marcel Telka, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R, Paul Evans, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sisyphus, TAKAI Kousuke, 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://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. 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.

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.