.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.09 (Pod::Simple 3.35) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will .\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and .\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff, .\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .tr \(*W- .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p' .ie n \{\ . ds -- \(*W- . ds PI pi . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch . ds L" "" . ds R" "" . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds -- \|\(em\| . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .if !\nF .nr F 0 .if \nF>0 \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} .\} .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "PERL5250DELTA 1" .TH PERL5250DELTA 1 "2017-05-20" "perl v5.26.0" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" [ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as XXX needs to be processed before release. ] .PP perl5250delta \- what is new for perl v5.25.0 .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This document describes differences between the 5.24.0 release and the 5.25.0 release. .SH "Known Problems" .IX Header "Known Problems" .IP "\(bu" 4 Some modules have been broken by the context stack rework. These modules were relying on non-guaranteed implementation details in perl. Their maintainers have been informed, and should contact perl5\-porters for advice if needed. Below is a subset of these modules: .RS 4 .IP "Algorithm::Permute" 4 .IX Item "Algorithm::Permute" .PD 0 .IP "Coro" 4 .IX Item "Coro" .PD Coro and perl v5.22.0 were already incompatible due to a change in the perl, and the reworking on the perl context stack creates a further incompatibility. perl5\-porters has discussed the issue on the mailing list . .IP "Data::Alias" 4 .IX Item "Data::Alias" .PD 0 .IP "RPerl" 4 .IX Item "RPerl" .IP "Scope::Upper" 4 .IX Item "Scope::Upper" .IP "TryCatch" 4 .IX Item "TryCatch" .RE .RS 4 .RE .IP "\(bu" 4 .PD The module lexical::underscore no longer works on perl v5.24.0, because perl no longer has a lexical \f(CW$_\fR! .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\f(CW\*(C`mod_perl\*(C'\fR has been patched for compatibility for v5.22.0 and later but no release has been made. The relevant patch (and other changes) can be found in their source code repository, mirrored at GitHub . .SH "Acknowledgements" .IX Header "Acknowledgements" \&\s-1XXX\s0 Generate this with: .PP .Vb 1 \& perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.24.0..HEAD .Ve .SH "Reporting Bugs" .IX Header "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 . There may also be information at , the Perl Home Page. .PP 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 \f(CW\*(C`perl \-V\*(C'\fR, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team. .PP If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see \&\*(L"\s-1SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION\*(R"\s0 in perlsec for details of how to report the issue. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" The \fIChanges\fR file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed. .PP The \fI\s-1INSTALL\s0\fR file for how to build Perl. .PP The \fI\s-1README\s0\fR file for general stuff. .PP The \fIArtistic\fR and \fICopying\fR files for copyright information.