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=head1 NAME

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.39.1

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.39.0 release and the 5.39.1
release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.38.0, first read
L<perl5390delta>, which describes differences between 5.38.0 and 5.39.0.

=head1 Incompatible Changes

=head2 reset EXPR now calls set-magic on scalars

Previously C<reset EXPR> did not call set magic when clearing scalar variables.
This meant that changes did not propagate to the underlying internal state
where needed, such as for C<$^W>, and did not result in an exception where the
underlying magic would normally throw an exception, such as for C<$1>.

This means code that had no effect before may now actually have an effect,
including possibly throwing an exception.

C<reset EXPR> already called set magic when modifying arrays and hashes.

This has no effect on plain C<reset> used to reset one-match searches as with
C<m?pattern?>.

[L<GH #20763|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20763>]

=head2 Calling the import method of an unknown package produces an error

Historically, it has been possible to call the import() or unimport() method of
any class, including ones which have not been defined, with an argument and not
experience an error.  For instance, this code will not throw an error in Perl
5.38:

    Class::That::Does::Not::Exist->import("foo");

However, as of Perl 5.39.1 this will throw an exception.  Note that calling
these methods with no arguments continues to silently succeed and do nothing.
For instance,

    Class::That::Does::Not::Exist->import();

will continue to not throw an error.  This is because every class implicitly
inherits from the class UNIVERSAL which now defines an import method.  In older
perls there was no such method defined, and instead the method calls for
C<import> and C<unimport> were special cased to not throw errors if there was
no such method defined.

This change has been added because it makes it easier to detect case typos in
C<use> statements when running on case-insensitive file systems.  For instance,
on Windows or other platforms with case-insensitive file systems on older perls
the following code

    use STRICT 'refs';

would silently do nothing as the module is actually called 'strict.pm', not
'STRICT.pm', so it would be loaded but its import method would never be called.
It will also detect cases where a user passes an argument when using a package
that does not provide its own import, for instance most "pure" class
definitions do not define an import method.

=head1 Modules and Pragmata

=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata

=over 4

=item *

L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded from version 2.204_001 to 2.205.

=item *

L<Compress::Raw::Zlib> has been upgraded from version 2.204_001 to 2.205.

=item *

L<CPAN::Meta::Requirements> has been upgraded from version 2.140 to 2.143.

=item *

L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.37 to 1.38.

The C<osvers> and C<archname> baked into the module to ensure Errno is loaded
by the perl that built it are now more comprehensively escaped.
[L<GH #21135|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21135>]

=item *

L<ExtUtils::CBuilder> has been upgraded from version 0.280238 to 0.280239.

=item *

L<ExtUtils::Manifest> has been upgraded from version 1.73 to 1.75.

=item *

L<feature> has been upgraded from version 1.82 to 1.83.

=item *

IO-Compress has been upgraded from version 2.204 to 2.205.

=item *

L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999837 to 1.999839.

=item *

L<Math::BigInt::FastCalc> has been upgraded from version 0.5013 to 0.5014.

=item *

L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20230520 to 5.20230720.

=item *

L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000037 to 1.000038.

=item *

L<perlfaq> has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to 5.20230701.

=item *

L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 2.13 to 2.14.

=item *

L<Socket> has been upgraded from version 2.036 to 2.037.

=item *

L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 1.302194 to 1.302195.

=item *

L<Text::Tabs> has been upgraded from version 2021.0814 to 2023.0511.

=item *

L<Text::Wrap> has been upgraded from version 2021.0814 to 2023.0511.

=item *

L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.36 to 2.37.

=item *

L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9775 to 1.9776.

=item *

L<Time::Local> has been upgraded from version 1.30 to 1.35.

=item *

L<UNIVERSAL> has been upgraded from version 1.15 to 1.16.

=item *

L<warnings> has been upgraded from version 1.65 to 1.66.

=back

=head1 Documentation

=head2 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
L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.

Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:

=head3 L<perlhacktips>

=over 4

=item *

Document we can't use compound literals or array designators due to C++
compatibility.  [L<GH #21073|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21073>]

=back

=head1 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 L<perldiag>.

=head2 New Diagnostics

=head3 New Errors

=over 4

=item *

L<Attempt to call undefined %s method with arguments via package "%s" (perhaps
you forgot to load the package?)|perldiag/"Attempt to call undefined %s method
with arguments via package "%s" (perhaps you forgot to load the package?)">

(F) You called the C<import()> or C<unimport()> method of a class that has no
import method defined in its inheritance graph, and passed an argument to the
method.  This is very often the sign of a misspelled package name in a use or
require statement that has silently succeeded due to a case-insensitive file
system.

Another common reason this may happen is when mistakenly attempting to import
or unimport a symbol from a class definition or package which does not use
C<Exporter> or otherwise define its own C<import> or C<unimport> method.

=back

=head1 Testing

Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this
release.  Furthermore, these significant changes were made:

=over 4

=item *

Update F<nm> output parsing for Darwin in F<t/porting/libperl.t> to handle
changes in the output of nm on Darwin.
[L<GH #21117|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21117>]

=back

=head1 Platform Support

=head2 Platform-Specific Notes

=over 4

=item Windows

Eliminated several header build warnings under MSVC with C</W4> to reduce noise
for embedders.  [L<GH #21031|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21031>]

=back

=head1 Acknowledgements

Perl 5.39.1 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl 5.38.0
and contains approximately 24,000 lines of changes across 290 files from 18
authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 6,100 lines of changes to 200 .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 5.39.1:

Bernd, Elvin Aslanov, Eugen Konkov, Graham Knop, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo
van der Sanden, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Paul
Evans, Ricardo Signes, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, 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 F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.

=head1 Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at
L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  There may also be information at
L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
L<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 L<perlsec/SECURITY
VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> for details of how to report the issue.

=head1 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 C<perlthanks> program:

    perlthanks

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

=head1 SEE ALSO

The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
what changed.

The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.

The F<README> file for general stuff.

The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.

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