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NAME

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.19.0

DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.18.0 release and the 5.19.0 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.17.0, first read perl5180delta, which describes differences between 5.17.0 and 5.18.0.

Notice

In v5.18.0, quite a few modules were marked for removal. They have now been removed. See "Removed Modules and Pragmata", below.

Modules and Pragmata

Updated Modules and Pragmata

  • Getopt::Std has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.

  • Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.90 to 2.91.

  • Storable has been upgraded from version 2.41 to 2.42.

  • feature has been upgraded from version 1.32 to 1.33.

  • utf8 has been upgraded from version 1.10 to 1.11.

Removed Modules and Pragmata

The distributions below have been removed from the core, but are still available on the CPAN. In many cases, the named distribution includes multiple modules, which are not listed individually. For a comprehensive list of removals, consult:

$ corelist --dif 5.18.0 5.19.0 | grep absent
Archive-Extract
B-Lint
CPANPLUS
File-CheckTree
Log-Message
Module-Pluggable
Object-Accessor
Pod-LaTeX
Term-UI
Text-Soundex

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.19.0 represents approximately 0.2857142857 weeks of development since Perl 5.18.0 and contains approximately 52,000 lines of changes across 310 files from 6 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 5.19.0:

Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Karl Williamson, Nicholas Clark, Reuben Thomas, Ricardo Signes.

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 are the removal of modules no longer shipped with Perl's core. We thank those modules for their service and wish them luck in their future endeavors.

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 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.