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NAME
perl5123delta - what is new for perl v5.12.3
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 perl5122delta,
which describes differences between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0
are described in perl5120delta.
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.2. If any
exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.
Core Enhancements
"keys", "values" work on arrays
You can now use the "keys", "values", "each" builtin functions on arrays (previously you
could only use them on hashes). See perlfunc for details. This is actually a change
introduced in perl 5.12.0, but it was missed from that release's perldelta.
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.
Platform Specific Notes
Solaris
A separate DTrace is now build for miniperl, which means that perl can be compiled
with -Dusedtrace on Solaris again.
VMS A number of regressions on VMS have been fixed. In addition to minor cleanup of
questionable expressions in 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
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.
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, Zsban Ambrus, AEvar Arnfjoer`
Bjarmason
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 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.