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This is problematic when parsing version strings if the locale's numeric separator has been changed. Version parsing has been patched to ensure it handles the locales correctly. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121930">[perl #121930]</a></p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Documentation"><a class="permalink" href="#Documentation">#</a>Documentation</h1> <h2 id="Changes-to-Existing-Documentation"><a class="permalink" href="#Changes-to-Existing-Documentation">#</a><a id="Changes"></a>Changes to Existing Documentation</h2> <h3 id="perlapi"><a class="permalink" href="#perlapi">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlapi">perlapi</a></h3> <ul> <li><p><code>av_len</code> - Emphasize that this returns the highest index in the array, not the size of the array. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120386">[perl #120386]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Note that <code>SvSetSV</code> doesn't do set magic.</p> </li> <li><p><code>sv_usepvn_flags</code> - Fix documentation to mention the use of <code>NewX</code> instead of <code>malloc</code>. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121869">[perl #121869]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Clarify where <code>NUL</code> may be embedded or is required to terminate a string.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlfunc"><a class="permalink" href="#perlfunc">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlfunc">perlfunc</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>Clarify the meaning of <code>-B</code> and <code>-T</code>.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-l</code> now notes that it will return false if symlinks aren't supported by the file system. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121523">[perl #121523]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Note that <code>each</code>, <code>keys</code> and <code>values</code> may produce different orderings for tied hashes compared to other perl hashes. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121404">[perl #121404]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Note that <code>exec LIST</code> and <code>system LIST</code> may fall back to the shell on Win32. Only <code>exec PROGRAM LIST</code> and <code>system PROGRAM LIST</code> indirect object syntax will reliably avoid using the shell. This has also been noted in <a href="/5.20.1/perlport">perlport</a>. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122046">[perl #122046]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Clarify the meaning of <code>our</code>. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122132">[perl #122132]</a></p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlguts"><a class="permalink" href="#perlguts">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlguts">perlguts</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>Explain various ways of modifying an existing SV's buffer. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116925">[perl #116925]</a></p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlpolicy"><a class="permalink" href="#perlpolicy">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlpolicy">perlpolicy</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>We now have a code of conduct for the <i>p5p</i> mailing list, as documented in <a href="/5.20.1/perlpolicy#STANDARDS-OF-CONDUCT">"STANDARDS OF CONDUCT" in perlpolicy</a>.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlre"><a class="permalink" href="#perlre">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlre">perlre</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>The <code>/x</code> modifier has been clarified to note that comments cannot be continued onto the next line by escaping them.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlsyn"><a class="permalink" href="#perlsyn">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlsyn">perlsyn</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>Mention the use of empty conditionals in <code>for</code>/<code>while</code> loops for infinite loops.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="perlxs"><a class="permalink" href="#perlxs">#</a><a href="/5.20.1/perlxs">perlxs</a></h3> <ul> <li><p>Added a discussion of locale issues in XS code.</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="/5.20.1/perldiag">perldiag</a>.</p> <h2 id="Changes-to-Existing-Diagnostics"><a class="permalink" href="#Changes-to-Existing-Diagnostics">#</a><a id="Changes1"></a>Changes to Existing Diagnostics</h2> <ul> <li><p><a href="/5.20.1/perldiag#Variable-length-lookbehind-not-implemented-in-regex-m%2F%25s%2F">Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex m/%s/</a></p> <p>Information about Unicode behaviour has been added.</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>Building Perl no longer writes to the source tree when configured with <i>Configure</i>'s <b>-Dmksymlinks</b> option. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121585">[perl #121585]</a></p> </li> </ul> <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="Android"><a class="permalink" href="#Android">#</a>Android</dt> <dd> <p>Build support has been improved for cross-compiling in general and for Android in particular.</p> </dd> <dt id="OpenBSD"><a class="permalink" href="#OpenBSD">#</a>OpenBSD</dt> <dd> <p>Corrected architectures and version numbers used in configuration hints when building Perl.</p> </dd> <dt id="Solaris"><a class="permalink" href="#Solaris">#</a>Solaris</dt> <dd> <p><b>c99</b> options have been cleaned up, hints look for <b>solstudio</b> as well as <b>SUNWspro</b>, and support for native <code>setenv</code> has been added.</p> </dd> <dt id="VMS"><a class="permalink" href="#VMS">#</a>VMS</dt> <dd> <p>An old bug in feature checking, mainly affecting pre-7.3 systems, has been fixed.</p> </dd> <dt id="Windows"><a class="permalink" href="#Windows">#</a>Windows</dt> <dd> <p><code>%I64d</code> is now being used instead of <code>%lld</code> for MinGW.</p> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="Internal-Changes"><a class="permalink" href="#Internal-Changes">#</a><a id="Internal"></a>Internal Changes</h1> <ul> <li><p>Added <a href="/5.20.1/perlapi#sync_locale">"sync_locale" in perlapi</a>. Changing the program's locale should be avoided by XS code. Nevertheless, certain non-Perl libraries called from XS, such as <code>Gtk</code> do so. When this happens, Perl needs to be told that the locale has changed. Use this function to do so, before returning to Perl.</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>A bug has been fixed where zero-length assertions and code blocks inside of a regex could cause <code>pos</code> to see an incorrect value. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122460">[perl #122460]</a></p> </li> <li><p>Using <code>s///e</code> on tainted utf8 strings could issue bogus "Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string)" warnings. This has now been fixed. <a href="https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122148">[perl #122148]</a></p> </li> <li><p><code>system</code> and friends should now work properly on more Android builds.</p> <p>Due to an oversight, the value specified through <b>-Dtargetsh</b> to <i>Configure</i> would end up being ignored by some of the build process. This caused perls cross-compiled for Android to end up with defective versions of <code>system</code>, <code>exec</code> and backticks: the commands would end up looking for <i>/bin/sh</i> instead of <i>/system/bin/sh</i>, and so would fail for the vast majority of devices, leaving <code>$!</code> as <code>ENOENT</code>.</p> </li> <li><p>Many issues have been detected by <a href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> and fixed.</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="Acknowledgements"><a class="permalink" href="#Acknowledgements">#</a>Acknowledgements</h1> <p>Perl 5.20.1 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl 5.20.0 and contains approximately 12,000 lines of changes across 170 files from 36 authors.</p> <p>Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 2,600 lines of changes to 110 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.</p> <p>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 5.20.1:</p> <p>Aaron Crane, Abigail, Alberto Sim玫es, Alexandr Ciornii, Alexandre (Midnite) Jousset, Andrew Fresh, Andy Dougherty, Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, David Golden, David Mitchell, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Peacock, kafka, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Michael Bunk, Peter Martini, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Shirakata Kentaro, Smylers, Steve Hay, Thomas Sibley, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Vladimir Marek, 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 articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at https://rt.perl.org/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.</p> <p>If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the <a href="/5.20.1/perlbug">perlbug</a> program included with your release. 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