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This is a development version of Perl. </div> <h1><a id="toc">CONTENTS</a></h1> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#NAME">NAME</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Core-Enhancements">Core Enhancements</a> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#New-__CLASS__-Keyword">New __CLASS__ Keyword</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Modules-and-Pragmata">Modules and Pragmata</a> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Updated-Modules-and-Pragmata">Updated Modules and Pragmata</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Diagnostics">Diagnostics</a> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#New-Diagnostics">New Diagnostics</a> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#New-Errors">New Errors</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#New-Warnings">New Warnings</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Configuration-and-Compilation">Configuration and Compilation</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Testing">Testing</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Platform-Support">Platform Support</a> <ul> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Platform-Specific-Notes">Platform-Specific Notes</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Internal-Changes">Internal Changes</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Selected-Bug-Fixes">Selected Bug Fixes</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Reporting-Bugs">Reporting Bugs</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#Give-Thanks">Give Thanks</a> </li> <li> <a class="text-decoration-none" href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a> </li> </ul> <h1 id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">#</a>NAME</h1> <p>perldelta - what is new for perl v5.39.2</p> <h1 id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">#</a>DESCRIPTION</h1> <p>This document describes differences between the 5.39.1 release and the 5.39.2 release.</p> <p>If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.39.0, first read <a href="/5.39.2/perl5391delta">perl5391delta</a>, which describes differences between 5.39.0 and 5.39.1.</p> <h1 id="Core-Enhancements"><a class="permalink" href="#Core-Enhancements">#</a><a id="Core"></a>Core Enhancements</h1> <h2 id="New-__CLASS__-Keyword"><a class="permalink" href="#New-__CLASS__-Keyword">#</a><a id="New"></a>New <code>__CLASS__</code> Keyword</h2> <p>When using the new <code>class</code> feature, code inside a method, <code>ADJUST</code> block or field initializer expression is now permitted to use the new <code>__CLASS__</code> keyword. This yields a class name, similar to <code>__PACKAGE__</code>, but whereas that gives the compile-time package that the code appears in, the <code>__CLASS__</code> keyword is aware of the actual run-time class that the object instance is a member of. This makes it useful for method dispatch on that class, especially during constructors, where access to <code>$self</code> is not permitted.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="/5.39.2/perlfunc#__CLASS__">"__CLASS__" in perlfunc</a>.</p> <h1 id="Modules-and-Pragmata"><a class="permalink" href="#Modules-and-Pragmata">#</a><a id="Modules"></a>Modules and Pragmata</h1> <h2 id="Updated-Modules-and-Pragmata"><a class="permalink" href="#Updated-Modules-and-Pragmata">#</a><a id="Updated"></a>Updated Modules and Pragmata</h2> <ul> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Compress::Raw::Bzip2">Compress::Raw::Bzip2</a> has been upgraded from version 2.205 to 2.206.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Compress::Raw::Zlib">Compress::Raw::Zlib</a> has been upgraded from version 2.205 to 2.206.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Devel::Peek">Devel::Peek</a> has been upgraded from version 1.33 to 1.34.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/ExtUtils::Miniperl">ExtUtils::Miniperl</a> has been upgraded from version 1.13 to 1.14.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/feature">feature</a> has been upgraded from version 1.83 to 1.84.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/File::Spec">File::Spec</a> has been upgraded from version 3.89 to 3.90.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/HTTP::Tiny">HTTP::Tiny</a> has been upgraded from version 0.086 to 0.088.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/IO::Compress">IO::Compress</a> has been upgraded from version 2.205 to 2.206.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/IO::Socket::IP">IO::Socket::IP</a> has been upgraded from version 0.41_01 to 0.42.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Module::CoreList">Module::CoreList</a> has been upgraded from version 5.20230720 to 5.20230820.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/NDBM_File">NDBM_File</a> has been upgraded from version 1.16 to 1.17.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Opcode">Opcode</a> has been upgraded from version 1.64 to 1.65.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/perlfaq">perlfaq</a> has been upgraded from version 5.20230701 to 5.20230812.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/PerlIO::scalar">PerlIO::scalar</a> has been upgraded from version 0.31 to 0.32.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/PerlIO::via">PerlIO::via</a> has been upgraded from version 0.18 to 0.19.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Pod::Html">Pod::Html</a> has been upgraded from version 1.34 to 1.35.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Pod::Simple">Pod::Simple</a> has been upgraded from version 3.43 to 3.45.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/POSIX">POSIX</a> has been upgraded from version 2.14 to 2.15.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Safe">Safe</a> has been upgraded from version 2.44 to 2.45.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/strict">strict</a> has been upgraded from version 1.12 to 1.13.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/Test::Harness">Test::Harness</a> has been upgraded from version 3.44 to 3.47.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/threads">threads</a> has been upgraded from version 2.37 to 2.38.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/warnings">warnings</a> has been upgraded from version 1.66 to 1.67.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/XS::APItest">XS::APItest</a> has been upgraded from version 1.32 to 1.33.</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Diagnostics"><a class="permalink" href="#Diagnostics">#</a>Diagnostics</h1> <p>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 <a href="/5.39.2/perldiag">perldiag</a>.</p> <h2 id="New-Diagnostics"><a class="permalink" href="#New-Diagnostics">#</a><a id="New1"></a>New Diagnostics</h2> <h3 id="New-Errors"><a class="permalink" href="#New-Errors">#</a><a id="New2"></a>New Errors</h3> <ul> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/perldiag#Cannot-use-__CLASS__-outside-of-a-method-or-field-initializer-expression">Cannot use __CLASS__ outside of a method or field initializer expression</a></p> <p>(F) A <code>__CLASS__</code> expression yields the class name of the object instance executing the current method, and therefore it can only be placed inside an actual method (or method-like expression, such as a field initializer expression).</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/perldiag#get_layers%3A-unknown-argument-%27%25s%27">get_layers: unknown argument '%s'</a></p> <p>(F) You called PerlIO::get_layers() with an unknown argument. Legal arguments are provided in key/value pairs, with the keys being one of <code>input</code>, <code>output</code> or <code>detail</code>, followed by a boolean.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/perldiag#UNIVERSAL-does-not-export-anything">UNIVERSAL does not export anything</a></p> <p>(F) You asked UNIVERSAL to export something, but UNIVERSAL is the base class for all classes and contains not exportable symbols.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="New-Warnings"><a class="permalink" href="#New-Warnings">#</a><a id="New3"></a>New Warnings</h3> <ul> <li><p><a href="/5.39.2/perldiag#Forked-open-%27%25s%27-not-meaningful-in-%3C%3E">Forked open '%s' not meaningful in <></a></p> <p>(S inplace) You had <code>|-</code> or <code>-|</code> in <code>@ARGV</code> and tried to use <code><></code> to read from it.</p> <p>Previously this would fork and produce a confusing error message. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21176">GH #21176</a>]</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Configuration-and-Compilation"><a class="permalink" href="#Configuration-and-Compilation">#</a><a id="Configuration"></a>Configuration and Compilation</h1> <ul> <li><p><code>microperl</code>, long broken and of unclear present purpose, has been removed as promised in <a href="/5.39.2/perl5180delta#Future-Deprecations">Perl 5.18</a>.</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Testing"><a class="permalink" href="#Testing">#</a>Testing</h1> <p>Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release.</p> <h1 id="Platform-Support"><a class="permalink" href="#Platform-Support">#</a><a id="Platform"></a>Platform Support</h1> <h2 id="Platform-Specific-Notes"><a class="permalink" href="#Platform-Specific-Notes">#</a><a id="Platform1"></a>Platform-Specific Notes</h2> <dl> <dt id="Serenity-OS"><a class="permalink" href="#Serenity-OS">#</a><a id="Serenity"></a>Serenity OS</dt> <dd> <p>Out of the box support for Serenity OS was added.</p> </dd> <dt id="Windows"><a class="permalink" href="#Windows">#</a>Windows</dt> <dd> <p>Workaround a bug in most 32-bit Mingw builds, where the generated code, including the code in the gcc support library, assumes 16-byte stack alignment, which 32-bit Windows does not preserve. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21313">GH #21313</a>]</p> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="Internal-Changes"><a class="permalink" href="#Internal-Changes">#</a><a id="Internal"></a>Internal Changes</h1> <ul> <li><p><code>PERL_RC_STACK</code> build option added.</p> <p>This new build option is highly experimental and is not enabled by default. Perl can be built with it by using the <i>Configure</i> option <code>-Accflags='-DPERL_RC_STACK'</code>.</p> <p>It makes the argument stack bump the reference count of SVs pushed onto it. It is functional, but currently slow and incomplete.</p> <p>See <a href="/5.39.2/perlguts#Reference-counted-argument-stack">perlguts</a>.</p> </li> <li><p>Functions <a href="/5.39.2/perlapi#sv_strftime_tm">"sv_strftime_tm" in perlapi</a> and <a href="/5.39.2/perlapi#sv_strftime_ints">"sv_strftime_ints" in perlapi</a> have been added to the public API. These transparently handle UTF-8 for you. One takes as input a libc <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><code>struct tm</code></span> and the other takes integers specifying the time, in the same form as <a href="/5.39.2/POSIX#strftime">"strftime" in POSIX</a>.</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Selected-Bug-Fixes"><a class="permalink" href="#Selected-Bug-Fixes">#</a><a id="Selected"></a>Selected Bug Fixes</h1> <ul> <li><p><code>use 5.36;</code> or later didn't enable the post parse reporting of <a href="/5.39.2/perldiag#Name-%22%25s%3A%3A%25s%22-used-only-once%3A-possible-typo">Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo</a> warnings when enabling warnings. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21271">GH #21271</a>]</p> </li> <li><p>Fix a crash or assertion when cleaning up a closure that refers to an outside <code>our</code> sub. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21067">GH #21067</a>]</p> </li> <li><p>Fixed a number of issues where <code>I32</code> was used as a string offset or size rather than <code>SSize_t</code> or <code>STRLEN</code>/<code>size_t</code> [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21012">GH #21012</a>]</p> <ul> <li><p><code>~$str</code> when <code>$str</code> was more than 2GB in size would do nothing or produce an incomplete result.</p> </li> <li><p>String repeat, <code>$str x $count</code>, didn't handle <code>$str</code> over 2GB in size, throwing an error. Now such strings are repeated.</p> </li> <li><p>Complex substitution after the 2GB point in a string could access incorrect or invalid offsets in the string.</p> </li> <li><p>sv_utf8_decode() would truncate the SVs pos() value. This wasn't visible via utf8::decode().</p> </li> <li><p>When compiling a constant folded hash key, the length was truncated when creating the shared SV. Since hash keys over 2GB are not supported, throw a compilation error instead.</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li><p>msgrcv() incorrectly called get magic on the buffer SV and failed to call set magic on completion. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21012">GH #21012</a>]</p> </li> <li><p>msgrcv() used the size parameter to resize the buffer before validating it. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21012">GH #21012</a>]</p> </li> <li><p>Inheriting from a class that was hierarchically an ancestor of the new class, eg. <code> class A::B :isa(A) { ... } </code>, would not attempt to load the parent class. [<a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21332">GH #21332</a>]</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Acknowledgements"><a class="permalink" href="#Acknowledgements">#</a>Acknowledgements</h1> <p>Perl 5.39.2 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.39.1 and contains approximately 38,000 lines of changes across 510 files from 24 authors.</p> <p>Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 27,000 lines of changes to 370 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.</p> <p>Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.39.2:</p> <p>Beckett Normington, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns氓ker, David Golden, David Mitchell, Elvin Aslanov, Erik Huelsmann, Greg Kennedy, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Nicolas Mendoza, Nicolas R, OpossumPetya, Paul Evans, Raul E Rangel, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the <i>AUTHORS</i> file in the Perl source distribution.</p> <h1 id="Reporting-Bugs"><a class="permalink" href="#Reporting-Bugs">#</a><a id="Reporting"></a>Reporting Bugs</h1> <p>If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at <a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues">https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues</a>. There may also be information at <a href="http://www.perl.org/">http://www.perl.org/</a>, the Perl Home Page.</p> <p>If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at <a href="https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues">https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues</a>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.</p> <p>If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see <a href="/5.39.2/perlsec#SECURITY-VULNERABILITY-CONTACT-INFORMATION">"SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec</a> for details of how to report the issue.</p> <h1 id="Give-Thanks"><a class="permalink" href="#Give-Thanks">#</a><a id="Give"></a>Give Thanks</h1> <p>If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by running the <code>perlthanks</code> program:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">perlthanks</code></pre> <p>This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.</p> <h1 id="SEE-ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE-ALSO">#</a><a id="SEE"></a>SEE ALSO</h1> <p>The <i>Changes</i> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.</p> <p>The <i>INSTALL</i> file for how to build Perl.</p> <p>The <i>README</i> file for general stuff.</p> <p>The <i>Artistic</i> and <i>Copying</i> files for copyright information.</p> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBOOK">DBOOK</a>). 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