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perl5202delta - what is new for perl v5.20.2
This document describes differences between the 5.20.1 release and the 5.20.2 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.20.0, first read the perl5201delta manpage, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.20.1.
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.1. If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See Reporting Bugs below.
The usage of memEQs in the XS has been corrected.
[perl #122701]
Fixes CVE-2014-4330 by adding a configuration variable/option to limit recursion when dumping deep data structures.
the Errno manpage has been upgraded from version 1.20_03 to 1.20_05.Warnings when building the XS on Windows with the Visual C++ compiler are now avoided.
the feature manpage has been upgraded from version 1.36 to 1.36_01.The postderef feature has now been documented. This feature was actually
added in Perl 5.20.0 but was accidentally omitted from the feature
documentation until now.
Document the limitations of the connected() method.
[perl #123096]
The list of Perl versions covered has been updated.
PathTools has been upgraded from version 3.48 to 3.48_01.A warning from the gcc compiler is now avoided when building the XS.
the PerlIO::scalar manpage has been upgraded from version 0.18 to 0.18_01.Reading from a position well past the end of the scalar now correctly returns end of file. [perl #123443]
Seeking to a negative position still fails, but no longer leaves the file position set to a negation location.
eof() on a PerlIO::scalar handle now properly returns true when the file
position is past the 2GB mark on 32-bit systems.
Minor grammatical change to the documentation only.
the VMS::DCLsym manpage has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.05_01.Minor formatting change to the documentation only.
the VMS::Stdio manpage has been upgraded from version 2.4 to 2.41.Minor formatting change to the documentation only.
This document, by Tom Christiansen, provides examples of handling Unicode in Perl.
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 the perldiag manpage.
IRIX and Tru64 platforms are working again. (Some make test failures
remain.)
getsockopt correctly.
[perl #120835],
[cpan #91183],
[cpan #85570]
In Perl 5.20.0, $^N accidentally had the internal UTF8 flag turned off if
accessed from a code block within a regular expression, effectively
UTF8-encoding the value. This has been fixed.
[perl #123135]
Various cases where the name of a sub is used (autoload, overloading, error
messages) used to crash for lexical subs, but have been fixed.
An assertion failure when parsing sort with debugging enabled has been
fixed.
[perl #122771]
Loading UTF8 tables during a regular expression match could cause assertion
failures under debugging builds if the previous match used the very same
regular expression.
[perl #122747]
Due to a mistake in the string-copying logic, copying the value of a state
variable could instead steal the value and undefine the variable. This bug,
introduced in Perl 5.20, would happen mostly for long strings (1250 chars or
more), but could happen for any strings under builds with copy-on-write
disabled.
[perl #123029]
Fixed a bug that could cause perl to execute an infinite loop during
compilation.
[perl #122995]
On Win32, restoring in a child pseudo-process a variable that was local()ed
in a parent pseudo-process before the fork happened caused memory corruption
and a crash in the child pseudo-process (and therefore OS process).
[perl #40565]
Tainted constants evaluated at compile time no longer cause unrelated
statements to become tainted.
[perl #122669]
Calling write on a format with a ^** field could produce a panic in
sv_chop() if there were insufficient arguments or if the variable used to fill
the field was empty.
[perl #123245]
In Perl 5.20.0, sort CORE::fake where 'fake' is anything other than a
keyword started chopping of the last 6 characters and treating the result as a
sort sub name. The previous behaviour of treating ``CORE::fake'' as a sort sub
name has been restored.
[perl #123410]
A bug in regular expression patterns that could lead to segfaults and other
crashes has been fixed. This occurred only in patterns compiled with "/i",
while taking into account the current POSIX locale (this usually means they
have to be compiled within the scope of "use locale"), and there must be
a string of at least 128 consecutive bytes to match.
[perl #123539]
qr/@array(?{block})/ no longer dies with ``Bizarre copy of ARRAY''.
[perl #123344]
gmtime no longer crashes with not-a-number values.
[perl #123495]
Certain syntax errors in substitutions, such as s/${<>{})//, would
crash, and had done so since Perl 5.10. (In some cases the crash did not start
happening until Perl 5.16.) The crash has, of course, been fixed.
[perl #123542]
A memory leak in some regular expressions, introduced in Perl 5.20.1, has been
fixed.
[perl #123198]
formline("@...", "a"); would crash. The FF_CHECKNL case in
pp_formline() didn't set the pointer used to mark the chop position, which led
to the FF_MORE case crashing with a segmentation fault. This has been
fixed.
[perl #123538]
[perl #123622]
A possible buffer overrun and crash when parsing a literal pattern during
regular expression compilation has been fixed.
[perl #123604]
SUBNAME
argument to sort. This will be fixed in a future version of Perl.
Perl 5.20.2 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.20.1 and contains approximately 6,300 lines of changes across 170 files from 34 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 1,900 lines of changes to 80 .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 5.20.2:
Aaron Crane, Abigail, Andreas Voegele, Andy Dougherty, Anthony Heading, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, Doug Bell, Ed J, Father Chrysostomos, Glenn D. Golden, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jim Cromie, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, kmx, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Peter Martini, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish, Slaven Rezic, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Tadeusz Sośnierz, Tony Cook, Yves Orton, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
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.
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.
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.
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