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Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information,
please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN
site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
releases.)
---------------
CAST AND CREW
---------------
To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today,
here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
current addresses (as of March 1997):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
-----------------
Version 5.003_99a
-----------------
Herein we find the fruits of the gamma.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "(NeXT|Open)Step update"
From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com>
Msg-ID: <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500
Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh
Title: "NetBSD hint update"
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
Msg-ID: <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST)
Files: hints/netbsd.sh
Title: "Irix hint update"
From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
Msg-ID: <yd83es0fp57.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
Date: 06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700
Files: hints/irix_6.sh
Title: "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs"
From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
Msg-ID: <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600
Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs
Title: "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod
win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c
win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h
Title: "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99"
From: Gary Clark <GaryC@mail.jeld-wen.com>
Msg-ID: <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700
Files: win32/makedef.pl
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400
Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "AFS patches"
From: Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>
Files: Configure installperl
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Msg-ID: <m3afm5g6ar.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700
Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
TESTS
(no other changes)
UTILITIES
Title: "Three bugs in pod2html"
From: hansm@euronet.nl
Msg-ID: <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl>
Date: Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200
Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm
Title: "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp"
From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
Msg-ID: <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200
Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Title: "Newer CPerl mode"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Updates to perldelta"
From: Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "More explicit Solaris instructions"
From: Andy Dougherty
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970508171206.438A-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
Files: INSTALL hints/solaris_2.sh
Title: "Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'"
From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200
Files: pod/perlop.pod
Title: "perlfaq9, hostname"
From: John D Groenveld <groenvel@cse.psu.edu>
Msg-ID: <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT
Files: pod/perlfaq9.pod
Title: "Debugger docs patch"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT)
Files: pod/perldebug.pod
Title: "Document that C<m?x?> is just like C<?x?>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlop.pod
Title: "Refresh description of sprintf()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
Title: "Mention the Regular Expressions book"
From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
Msg-ID: <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500
Files: pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod
Title: "OS/2 doc patch for _99"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
Files: README.os2
----------------
Version 5.003_99
----------------
"Oops." Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
(no changes)
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "NeXT hints update"
From: hansm@euronet.nl
Msg-ID: <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl>
Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200
Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh
Title: "Support shared libperl on AIX"
From: Eric Bartley <bartley@icd.cc.purdue.edu>
Msg-ID: <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500
Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: util.c
Title: "Forget prototype of subroutine after C<undef &subr>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t
Title: "Fix sysread() on tied handle"
From: Spider Boardman
Msg-ID: <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT)
Files: os2/os2.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Add new globals to perl.exp"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl_exp.SH
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.14"
From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST)
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
TESTS
Title: "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten"
From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
Msg-ID: <v03102801af8e160d3879@[194.51.248.68]>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200
Files: t/io/pipe.t
UTILITIES
Title: "typo fixes to installhtml"
From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Msg-ID: <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400
Files: installhtml
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts"
From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "Fix typo in perldelta"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
----------------
Version 5.003_98
----------------
Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma).
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod
pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms
CORE PORTABILITY
(no changes)
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: opcode.pl
Title: "Reset errno after failed piped close"
From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400
Files: lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod
t/io/pipe.t util.c
Title: "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()"
From: Spider Boardman
Msg-ID: <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400
Files: perlio.c
BUILD PROCESS
(no changes)
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
(no changes)
TESTS
(no other changes)
UTILITIES
(no changes)
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlmodlib.pod
Title: "Add new diagnostics to perldelta"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97j
-----------------
This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
(no changes)
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.h
Title: "NetBSD hint update"
From: matthew green <mrg@splode.eterna.com.au>
Msg-ID: <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000
Files: hints/netbsd.sh
Title: "HP-UX hint update"
From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
Msg-ID: <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600
Files: hints/hpux.sh
Title: "Win32 update (three patches)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
Files: win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c
Title: "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: XSUB.h
Title: "Eliminate Alpha warnings"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg
Files: perlsdio.h pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
Title: "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: taint.c
BUILD PROCESS
(no changes)
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35"
From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Files: lib/CGI.pm
Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.13"
From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST)
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Title: "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical"
From: Jesse Glick <jesse@ginger> and Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/SelfLoader.pm
TESTS
(no changes)
UTILITIES
(no changes)
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Split perlmod"
From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod
pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod
pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall
Title: "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "Doc fix for close of pipe handle"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97i
-----------------
This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the
crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
(no changes)
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c
Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: proto.h
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes"
From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip
Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c
Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: sv.c
Title: "Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c
Title: "Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: util.c
Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: win32/win32sck.c
Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV"
From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: perl.c util.c
Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()"
From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: sv.c
Title: "Undo private patch"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c
win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB"
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST)
Files: Configure
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs
Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/File/Path.pm
Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update"
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST)
Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall
t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t
TESTS
(no other changes)
UTILITIES
Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: x2p/a2py.c
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)"
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT)
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97h
-----------------
This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow;
in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs. (!!) This patch
also has a few other fixes. With these changes in place, I can sleep
at night. (Because I've stopped hacking. :-))
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Support PRINTF for tied handles"
From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Win32 update (two patches)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32
win32/makedef.pl
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h
pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h
regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c
Title: "Problems with glob"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
Files: op.c
Title: "Fix scalar leak in closures"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c scope.c
Title: "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Outermost scope is void, not scalar"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch"
From: Andy Dougherty
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
Title: "There is no standard answer to 'Use suidperl?'"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/bsdos.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh
hints/machten_2.sh
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Math::Complex update"
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
Title: "Croak on C<use autouse> without module name"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/autouse.pm
Title: "Silence warnings on simple C<use ops>"
From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzybafum6k.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400
Files: ext/Opcode/ops.pm
TESTS
Title: "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings"
From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200
Files: t/pragma/constant.t
UTILITIES
(no changes)
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)"
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
Msg-ID: <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT)
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
Title: "Two doublewords less"
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST)
Files: pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97g
-----------------
This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows. Perl has
not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl
pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c
Title: "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Irix update"
From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
Msg-ID: <yd8d8rsi0ln.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700
Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh
Title: "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32"
From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100
Files: win32/Makefile
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
Title: "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: gv.c
Title: "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Fix unnecessary re-linking"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Title: "Fix tcsh hack in Configure"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH"
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Msg-ID: <rjray-9703180132.AA00374040@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600
Files: Makefile.SH
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Patch to Getopt::Long"
From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Msg-ID: <m0wIKCO-00081IC@phoenix.squirrel.nl>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST
Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Title: "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL
TESTS
(no other changes)
UTILITIES
Title: "Make h2ph generate constant subs"
From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pz2088w5ot.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400
Files: utils/h2ph.PL
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Document {,un}pack changes"
From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97f
-----------------
This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean
it this time. No kidding.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "New operator systell()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl
pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
t/op/sysio.t toke.c
Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "VMS update"
From: Charles Bailey
Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms
vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl
Title: "Win32 update (three patches)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl
win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400
Files: util.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh"
From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
Title: "CGI.pm broke again"
From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200
Files: lib/CGI.pm
Title: "Revise quotewords()"
From: Shishir Gundavaram <shishir@ruby.ora.com>
Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
TESTS
(no other changes)
UTILITIES
(no changes)
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9"
From: Andy Dougherty
Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod
Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers"
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
-----------------
Version 5.003_97e
-----------------
Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since
I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists...
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "New operator: sysseek()"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym
keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c
Title: "Allow recursive substitution again"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doio.c pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++"
From: Steven Parkes <parkes@sierravista.com>
Msg-ID: <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700
Files: perl.h
Title: "Win32 update (four patches)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c
utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST
win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL
win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c
win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "New API function: perl_eval_pv()"
From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400
Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod
pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
Title: "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
Title: "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST)
Files: perlio.c
Title: "Fix for environment leak"
From: skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege)
Msg-ID: <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200
Files: util.c
Title: "Fix comments in seed()"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST)
Files: pp.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: installperl
Title: "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Files: Configure
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Refresh CGI to 2.34"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm
lib/CGI/Apache.pm
Title: "Debugger update"
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
Title: "diagnostics: $/ gotcha"
From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200
Files: lib/diagnostics.pm
Title: "Update File::Path"
From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200
Files: lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t
Title: "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos"
From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600
Files: lib/User/pwent.pm