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Removed some ancient patches. Fix a pkglint warning.
Core Enhancements
Unicode 10.0 is supported
delete on key/value hash slices
Experimentally, there are now alphabetic synonyms for some regular expression assertions
Mixed Unicode scripts are now detectable
In-place editing with perl -i is now safer
Initialisation of aggregate state variables
Full-size inode numbers
The sprintf %j format size modifier is now available with pre-C99 compilers
Close-on-exec flag set atomically
String- and number-specific bitwise ops are no longer experimental
Locales are now thread-safe on systems that support them
New read-only predefined variable ${^SAFE_LOCALES}
Security
[CVE-2017-12837] Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler
[CVE-2017-12883] Buffer over-read in regular expression parser
[CVE-2017-12814] $ENV{$key} stack buffer overflow on Windows
Default Hash Function Change
Incompatible Changes
Subroutine attribute and signature order
Comma-less variable lists in formats are no longer allowed
The :locked and :unique attributes have been removed
\N{} with nothing between the braces is now illegal
Opening the same symbol as both a file and directory handle is no longer allowed
Use of bare << to mean <<"" is no longer allowed
Setting $/ to a reference to a non-positive integer no longer allowed
Unicode code points with values exceeding IV_MAX are now fatal
The B::OP::terse method has been removed
Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-methods is no longer allowed
Use of strings with code points over 0xFF is not allowed for bitwise string operators
Setting ${^ENCODING} to a defined value is now illegal
Backslash no longer escapes colon in PATH for the -S switch
the -DH (DEBUG_H) misfeature has been removed
Yada-yada is now strictly a statement
Sort algorithm can no longer be specified
Over-radix digits in floating point literals
Return type of unpackstring()
Deprecations
Use of vec on strings with code points above 0xFF is deprecated
Some uses of unescaped "{" in regexes are no longer fatal
Use of unescaped "{" immediately after a "(" in regular expression patterns is deprecated
Assignment to $[ will be fatal in Perl 5.30
hostname() won't accept arguments in Perl 5.32
Module removals
Performance Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Removal of use vars
Use of DynaLoader changed to XSLoader in many modules
Updated Modules and Pragmata
Removed Modules and Pragmata
More details are in the included perldelta.pod.
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Several bugs, including a segmentation fault, have been fixed with the bounds checking constructs (introduced in Perl 5.22) \b{gcb}, \b{sb}, \b{wb}, \B{gcb}, \B{sb}, and \B{wb}. All the \B{} ones now match an empty string; none of the \b{} ones do.
* Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20150520 to 5.20151213.
* PerlIO::scalar has been upgraded from version 0.22 to 0.23.
* POSIX has been upgraded from version 1.53 to 1.53_01.
* Storable has been upgraded from version 2.53 to 2.53_01.
* warnings has been upgraded from version 1.32 to 1.34.
* Win32 has been upgraded from version 0.51 to 0.52.
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* Several modules were updated to fix minor bugs.
* Tests were fixed.
* Documentation was improved.
Changes 5.14.0:
* Unicode version 6.0 is now supported.
* Regular expressions can now be reset to the default modifiers.
* Four new regular expression modifiers, "/d", "/l" , "/u", and "/a", were
introduced.
* The substitution operators now support the modifier "/r" to work
non-destructively, leaving the original unmodified.
* Larger octals can now be specified.
* Array and hash operators can now experimentally operate directly on hard
references.
* printf-like functions now understand post-1980 size modifiers.
* Exception handling was made more reliable and consistent.
* Other enhancements and many bug fixes were made
PkgSrc:
* Fixed configuring on Mac OS X 10.7.
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lang/perl5 to perl-5.8.6nb4. Modify packages that referred to
lang/perl58 to point to lang/perl5 instead.
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