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=head1 NAME | |
perl5123delta - what is new for perl v5.12.3 | |
=head1 DESCRIPTION | |
This document describes differences between the 5.12.2 release and | |
the 5.12.3 release. | |
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.1, first read | |
L<perl5122delta>, which describes differences between 5.12.1 and | |
5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in L<perl5120delta>. | |
=head1 Incompatible Changes | |
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.2. If any | |
exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. | |
=head1 Core Enhancements | |
=head2 C<keys>, C<values> work on arrays | |
You can now use the C<keys>, C<values>, C<each> builtin functions on arrays | |
(previously you could only use them on hashes). See L<perlfunc> for details. | |
This is actually a change introduced in perl 5.12.0, but it was missed from | |
that release's perldelta. | |
=head1 Bug Fixes | |
"no VERSION" will now correctly deparse with B::Deparse, as will certain | |
constant expressions. | |
Module::Build should be more reliably pass its tests under cygwin. | |
Lvalue subroutines are again able to return copy-on-write scalars. This | |
had been broken since version 5.10.0. | |
=head1 Platform Specific Notes | |
=over 4 | |
=item Solaris | |
A separate DTrace is now build for miniperl, which means that perl can be | |
compiled with -Dusedtrace on Solaris again. | |
=item VMS | |
A number of regressions on VMS have been fixed. In addition to minor cleanup | |
of questionable expressions in F<vms.c>, file permissions should no longer be | |
garbled by the PerlIO layer, and spurious record boundaries should no longer be | |
introduced by the PerlIO layer during output. | |
For more details and discussion on the latter, see: | |
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.vmsperl/2010/11/msg15419.html | |
=item VOS | |
A few very small changes were made to the build process on VOS to better | |
support the platform. Longer-than-32-character filenames are now supported on | |
OpenVOS, and build properly without IPv6 support. | |
=back | |
=head1 Acknowledgements | |
Perl 5.12.3 represents approximately four months of development since | |
Perl 5.12.2 and contains approximately 2500 lines of changes across | |
54 files from 16 authors. | |
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 5.12.3: | |
Craig A. Berry, David Golden, David Leadbeater, Father Chrysostomos, Florian | |
Ragwitz, Jesse Vincent, Karl Williamson, Nick Johnston, Nicolas Kaiser, Paul | |
Green, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Ricardo Signes, Steffen Mueller, | |
Zsbán Ambrus, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | |
=head1 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 http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . 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 B<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 C<perl -V>, will be sent off to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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. | |
=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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