Change 34708: Initial check-in of the final (mostly complete) perl589delta from Paul

Change 34708 by nicholas@mouse-mill on 2008/11/03 21:27:44

	Initial check-in of the final (mostly complete) perl589delta from Paul
	Fenwick's volunteer team http://groups.google.com/group/perl589delta

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+++ perl/pod/perl589delta.pod	2008-11-03 13:27:44.000000000 -0800
@@ -13,50 +13,2014 @@
 
 =head1 Core Enhancements
 
+readpipe() (and thus `` and qx//) can now be overridden.
+
+Nicholas Clark allowed symbolic references to have embedded NULs. The new
+public function C<get_cvn_flags> can be used in extensions if you have to
+handle them.
+
+It's now possible to call C<stat> and the C<-X> filestat operators on
+dirhandles. When the situation is ambiguous, it favours the file handle
+semantics. They also treat C<*FILE{IO}> filehandles like C<*FILE> filehandles.
+
+Added B<perlthanks> which is just like C<perlbug> but allows the user to
+send a note of gratitude to the authors and maintainers of Perl. [33532]
+
+Updated Unicode definitions to 5.1.0.
+
+The Campaign for the Elimination of strlen() has successfully eliminated
+many calls to strlen().
+
+A very stubborn compiler warning in S_emulate_eaccess was killed six
+times.
+
+=head1 New Platforms
+
+Compile support added for:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+RISC OS 
+
+=item *
+
+Cray XT4/Catamount
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
 
-=head1 Utility Changes
+=head2 New Modules
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<Module::Pluggable> is a simple framework to create modules that accept
+pluggable sub-modules. The bundled version is 3.7. [33505]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Module::CoreList> is a hash of hashes that is keyed on perl version as
+indicated in $]. The bundled version is 2.12 (31561)
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Updated Modules
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<attributes> upgraded to version 0.09
+
+=item *
+
+C<ANSIColor> upgraded to version 1.11
+
+=item *
+
+C<Archive::Extract> upgraded to version 0.26
+
+=item *
+
+C<Attribute::Handlers> upgraded to version 0.79
+
+=item *
+
+C<AutoLoader> upgraded to version 5.66
+
+=item *
+
+C<AutoSplit> upgraded to 1.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<autouse> upgraded to version 1.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<B> upgraded from 1.09_01 to 1.19
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+consting and PMOP handling fixes.
+
+=item *
+
+export B_sub_generation(), B::NV::COP_SEQ_RANGE_LOW(),
+B::NV::COP_SEQ_RANGE_HIGH(), B::NV::PARENT_PAD_INDEX(),
+B::NV::PARENT_FAKELEX_FLAGS()
+
+=item *
+
+fix B::PV::PVBM. It was missing the last table entry before.
+
+=item *
+
+B::BM::PREVIOUS returns now U32, not U16.
+
+=item *
+
+add B::GV::isGV_with_GP() returning always TRUE
+
+=item *
+
+B::CV::START and B:CV::ROOT return now NULL on an XSUB,
+B::CV::XSUB and B::CV::XSUBANY return 0 on a non-XSUB.
+
+=item *
+
+New type B::HE added with methods VAL, HASH, SVKEY_force
+
+=item *
+
+The B::GVf_IMPORTED_CV flag is now set correctly when a proxy
+constant subroutine is imported.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::C> upgraded to 1.05
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::Concise> upgraded to 0.74
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Supports option B<-src>, i.e. the rendering of each statement (starting with
+the nextstate OP) will be preceded by the 1st line of source code that
+generates it.
+
+=item *
+
+Support option B<-stash="somepackage">, i.e. "somepackage" will be required,
+then the stash is inspected, and each function is rendered.
+
+=item *
+
+Now has a documentation of detailed hint symbols.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::Debug> upgraded to version 1.05
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::Deparse> upgraded to version 0.82
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::Lint> upgraded to version 1.11
+
+=item *
+
+C<B::Terse> upgraded to version 1.04
+
+=item *
+
+C<base> upgraded to version 2.13
+
+=item *
+
+C<Benchmark> upgraded to version 1.10
+
+=item *
+
+C<bignum> upgraded to 0.20
+
+=item *
+
+C<Carp> upgraded to version 1.09
+
+=item *
+
+C<CGI> upgraded to version 3.35 [33568] 
+
+=item *
+
+C<constant> upgraded to version 1.15
+
+=item *
+
+C<CPAN> upgraded to version 1.9205 (32280)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Cwd> upgraded to version 3.27 with C const-ing and some platform specific
+improvements (including for VMS).
+
+=item *
+
+C<Data::Dumper> upgraded to version 2.121_13
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Performance enhancements (28963)
+
+=item *
+
+Fixes hash iterator current position with the pure Perl version #40668 (29224)
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<DB> upgraded to version 1.30
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Andreas J. Koenig contributed two functions to save and load the debugger
+history.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<DB_File> upgraded to version 1.817 [33583]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Devel::DProf> upgraded to version 20080331.00.
+
+=item *
+
+C<Devel::Peek> upgraded to version 1.04
+
+=item *
+
+C<Devel::PPPort> upgraded to version 3.14_01
+
+=item *
+
+C<diagnostics> upgraded to version 1.16
+
+=item *
+
+C<Digest> upgraded to version 1.15
+
+=item *
+
+C<Digest::SHA> upgraded to version 5.46
+
+=item *
+
+C<DirHandle> upgraded to version 1.02
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Now localize C<$.>, C<$@>, C<$!>, C<$^E>, and C<$?> before closing directory
+handle to suppress warning about already being closed.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<DynaLoader> upgraded to version 1.09 and can now dynamically load a loadable
+object from a file with a non-default file extension.
+
+=item *
+
+C<Embed> upgraded to version 1.28
+
+=item *
+
+C<Encode> upgraded to version 2.24 [33493]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Encode::Alias> includes a fix for encoding "646" (aka ASCII) on Solaris.
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Basename> upgraded to version 2.76
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Find> upgraded to version 1.11
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Glob> upgraded to version 1.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<encoding> upgraded to version 0.11
+
+=item *
+
+C<Errno> upgraded to version 1.10
+
+=item *
+
+C<Exporter> upgraded to version 5.60
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::Command> upgraded to version 1.14
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::Constant> upgraded to version 0.04
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs> upgraded to version 0.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::Install> upgraded to version 1.51 [33567]
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> upgraded to version 6.44 [33396]
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Support for INSTALLSITESCRIPT and INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT 
+configuration. [26536]
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::Manifest> upgraded to version 1.51
+
+=item *
+
+C<ExtUtils::ParseXS> upgraded to version 2.19 [33392]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Fatal> upgraded to version 1.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<Time::Local> upgraded to version 1.18
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Allows to make fatal built-ins in CORE::GLOBAL.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<fields> upgraded to version 2.12
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Basename> upgraded to version 2.77
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Copy> now uses 3-arg open.
+
+C<File::Copy> upgraded to 2.11
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Find> upgraded to version 1.13
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Glob> upgraded to version 1.06
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Fixes spurious results with brackets inside braces.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Path> upgraded to version 2.04
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Spec>, C<File::Spec::Epoc>, C<File::Spec::Mac>,
+C<File::Spec::Functions> C<File::Spec::Unix>, C<File::Spec::VMS>,
+C<File::Spec::Win32> upgraded to version 3.2701 with improved handling of bad
+arguments and some platform specific improvements (Including for VMS and
+Cygwin) including an optimization on C<abs2rel()> when handling both relative
+arguments.
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Spec::Unix> upgraded to version 1.5_01
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Temp> upgraded to version 0.20
+
+=item * 
+
+C<FindBin> upgraded to version 1.49
+
+=item *
+
+C<FileCache> upgraded to version 1.07
+
+=item *
+
+C<GDBM_File> upgraded to version 1.09
+
+=item *
+
+C<Getopt::Long> upgraded to version 2.37 (32009)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Hash::Util> upgraded to version 0.07
+
+=item *
+
+C<IPC::SysV> upgraded to version 2.00
+
+=item *
+
+C<lib> upgraded to version 0.56
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Avoid warning about loading F<.par> files
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<libnet> upgraded to version 1.20
+
+=item *
+
+C<Locale::Maketext> upgraded to 1.13
+
+=item *
+
+C<Math::BigFloat> upgraded to version 1.54
+
+=item *
+
+C<Math::BigInt> upgraded to version 1.82
+
+=item *
+
+C<Math::BigRat> upgraded to version 0.22
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Implements new C<as_float> method.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<Math::Complex>, C<Math::Trig> upgraded to version 1.54.
+
+=item *
+
+C<Module::Pluggable> upgraded to version 3.8 [33552]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Net::Ping> upgraded to version 2.35 [33242]
+
+=item *
+
+C<NEXT> upgraded to version 0.61 [34007]
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Fix several bugs with L<NEXT> when working with C<AUTOLOAD>, C<eval> block, and
+within overloaded stringification.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<NDBM_File> upgraded to version 1.07
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Improve g++ handling for systems using GDBM compatibility headers.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<Opcode::Safe> upgraded to version 2.14
+
+=item *
+
+C<open> upgraded to 1.06
+
+=item *
+
+C<PathTools> upgraded to version 3.2501
+
+=item *
+
+C<PerlIO::scalar> upgraded to version 0.06
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+[perl #40267] PerlIO::scalar doesn't respect readonly-ness
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<PerlIO::via> upgraded to version 0.05
+
+=item *
+
+C<Pod::Html> upgraded to version 1.09 [33536]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Pod::Parser> upgraded to version 1.35
+
+=item *
+
+C<Pod::Perldoc> is now maintained by Hakim Cassimally (osfameron).
+
+=item * 
+
+C<Pod::Usage> upgraded to version 1.35 [30187]
+
+=item *
+
+C<POSIX::remove> can removes empty directories.
+
+=item *
+
+C<POSIX> imports previously duplicated constants from C<Fcntl>, version bumped from 1.14 to 1.15.
+
+=item *
+
+C<POSIX::setlocale> safer to call multiple times.
+
+=item *
+
+C<re> gains the regmust() function.
+
+=item *
+
+C<SDBM_File> upgraded to version 1.06
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Improve g++ handling for systems using GDBM compatibility headers.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+L<SelfLoader> upgraded to version 1.15
+
+=item *
+
+L<Shell> upgraded to version 0.72
+
+=item *
+
+L<sigtrap> upgraded to version 1.04
+
+=item *
+
+C<Socket> upgraded to version 1.81
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+This fixes an optimistic use of C<gethostbyname()>.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<Storable> upgraded to 2.18
+
+=item *
+
+C<Switch> upgraded to version 2.13
+
+=item *
+
+C<Sys-Syslog> upraded to version 0.24
+
+=item *
+
+C<Term::ANSIColor> upgraded to version 1.12 (31036)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Term::Cap> upgraded to version 1.11 (32143, 32301)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Term::ReadLine> upgraded to version 1.03 (31862)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::Builder> upgraded to version 0.72 (32371)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::Builder::Module> upgraded to version 0.72 (32371)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::Builder::Tester> upgraded to version 1.09 (32371)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::More> upgraded to version 0.72 (32371)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::Simple> upgraded to version 0.72 (32371)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Test::Harness> upgraded version to 2.64
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+This made it able to handle newlines.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<Text::Balanced> upgraded to version 1.98 (32984)
+
+=item *
+
+C<Text::ParseWords> upgraded to version 3.26
+
+=item *
+
+C<Text::Soundex> upgraded to version 3.02
+
+=item *
+
+C<Text::Tabs> upgraded to version 2007.1117
+
+=item *
+
+C<Text::Wrap> upgraded to version 2006.1117
+
+=item *
+
+C<Thread> upgraded to version 2.01 [32470]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Thread::Semaphore> upgraded to version 2.07 [33361]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Thread::Queue> upgraded to version 2.06 [33362]
+
+=item *
+
+C<Tie::Memoize> upgraded to version 1.1
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Tie::Memoize::EXISTS now correctly caches its results.
+
+=back
+
+C<Tie::RefHash> upgraded to version 1.38
+
+=item *
+
+C<Time::gmtime> upgraded to version 1.03
+
+=item *
+
+C<Time::HiRes> upgraded to version 1.9715 with various build improvements 
+(including VMS (31752)) and minor platform-specific bug fixes (including 
+for HP-UX 11 ia64)
+
+=item *
+
+C<threads> upgraded to 1.61
+
+=item *
+
+C<threads::shared> upgraded to version 1.21
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+User locks are now stored in a safer manner.
+
+=item *
+
+New function C<shared_clone> creates a copy of an object leaving
+shared elements as-is and deep-cloning non-shared elements.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<Thread::Queue> upgraded to version 2.08
+
+=item *
+
+C<Thread::Semaphore> upgraded to version 2.08
+
+=item *
+
+C<Unicode::Normalize> upgraded to version 1.01
+
+=item *
+
+C<Unicode::UCD> upgraded to version 0.25
+
+=item *
+
+C<Win32> upgraded to version 0.38
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Added new function C<GetCurrentProcessId()> which returns the regular Window
+process identifier of the current process, even when called from within a fork.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<XSLoader> upgraded to version 0.08
+
+=item *
+
+C<XS::APItest> and C<XS::Typemap> are for internal use only and hence
+no longer installed.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Utility Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<h2ph> now attempts to deal sensibly with the difference in path implications
+between C<""> and C<<E<lt>E<gt>>> quoting in C<#include> statements.
+
+=item *
+
+C<h2ph> generates correct correct code for C<#if defined A || defined B> now
+(perl #39130)
+
+=item *
+
+C<h2xs> won't define an empty string as a constant (perl #25366)
+
+=item *
+
+C<h2xs> has examples for h2xs -X (31175)
+
+=item *
+
+The Emacs perl mode (emacs/cperl-mode.el) has been updated to version
+5.23.
+
+=item *
+
+C<perlbug> now checks if you're reporting about a non-core module and suggests
+you report it to the CPAN author instead.
+
+=item *
+
+Added C<uupacktool.pl> (handles binary files in source tree).
+
+=item *
+
+Added C<add-package.pl> (adds/updates CPAN modules that are part of Core).
+
+=back
+
+=head1 New Documentation
+
+As usual, the documentation received its share of corrections, clarifications
+and other nitfixes. More C<< X<...> >> tags were added for indexing.
+
+L<CORE> documents the pseudo-namespace for Perl's core routines.
+
+L<perlbot> fixed C<ref> returns an empty string (not undef) when used on a
+string (#31685)
+
+L<perlcheat> is updated with better details on C<\w>, C<\d>, and C<\s>.
+
+L<perlcommunity> provides an overview of the Perl Community along with further
+resources.
+
+L<perldebug> is updated with information on how to call the debugger.
+
+L<perldiag> documentation updated with I<subroutine with an ampersand> on the
+argument to C<exists()> and C<delete()> and also several terminology updates on
+warnings.
+
+L<perlfork> documents the limitation of exec() inside pseudo-processes.
+
+L<perlfunc>:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+Documentation is fixed in section C<caller> and C<pop>. 
+
+=item * 
+
+Added example of C<gethostbyname>. 
+
+=item * 
+
+Better wording in C<prototype> and C<split>. 
+
+=item *
+
+Function C<alarm()> now mentions C<Time::HiRes::ualarm> in preference
+to C<select()>.
+
+=item *
+
+Regarding precedence in C<-X>, filetest operators are the same as unary
+operators, but not regarding parsing and parentheses (spotted by Eirik Berg
+Hanssen).
+
+=back
+
+L<perlglossary> adds I<deprecated modules and features> and I<to be dropped modules>.
+
+L<perlhack> has been updated and added resources on smoke testing.
+
+L<perllocale> documentation is adjusted for the number of localization and
+C<POSIX::setlocale()> to fix debian bug in RT #379463.
+
+L<perlmodlib> is updated with C<CPAN::API::HOWTO> and
+C<Sys::Syslog::win32::Win32> 
+
+L<perlop> adds C</k> modifier in section C<s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosxk>
+
+L<perlre> documentation updated to reflect the differences between
+C<[[:xxxxx:]]> and C<\p{IsXxxxx}> matches. Also added section on C</g> and
+C</c> modifiers.
+
+L<perlreguts> describe the internals of the regular expressions engine. It has
+been contributed by Yves Orton.
+
+L<perlrebackslash> describes all perl regular expression backslash and escape
+sequences.
+
+L<perlrecharclass> describes the syntax and use of character classes in
+Perl Regular Expressions.
+
+L<perlrun> is updated to clarify on the hash seed I<PERL_HASH_SEED>. Also more
+information in option B<-x> and B<-u>.
+
+L<perlsub> example is updated to use lexical variable on opendir syntax.
+
+L<perltoc> the table of content is updated with several new documentation and
+cleaned up unnecessary noises.
+
+L<perlunicode> is updated in section user defined properties.
+
+L<perluniintro> have been updated in the example of detecting data that's not
+valid in particular encoding. 
+
+L<perlunitut> is a tutorial written by Juerd Waalboer on Unicode-related
+terminology and how to correctly handle Unicode in Perl scripts.
+
+L<perlvar> and L<perlre> add items C<${^PREMATCH}>, C<${^MATCH}>, and
+C<${^`POSTMATCH}> and also C</k> modifier.
+
+L<perlvar> fixes confusion about real GID C<$(> and effective GID C<$)>. 
+
+Perl thread tutorial example is fixed in section
+L<perlthrtut/Queues: Passing Data Around> and L<perlothrtut>.
+
+The Perl FAQs (F<perlfaq1>..F<perlfaq9>) have been updated.
+
+L<reverse> function documentation received scalar context examples.
+
+L<perltodo> is updated with:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+removed section L<Ordering of "global" variables|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+removed section L<The roadmap to 5.10|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added B<-Duse32bit*>.
+
+=item *
+
+added L<__FUNCTION__ for MSVC|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added more detail about @INC order.
+
+=item *
+
+added section L<merge common code in installperl and installman|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added section L<merge checkpods and podchecker|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added section L<Investigate PADTMP hash pessimisation|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added C<does()> built-in and L<Tied filehandles and write() don't mix|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added section L<Unicode and lcE<sol>uc operators|perltodo>.
+
+=item *
+
+added section L<perltodo/Optimize away empty destructors>.
+
+=item *
+
+Maybe the default order of directories in C<@INC> should be modified to support
+upgrade core (dual-life) modules without overwriting files.
+
+=item *
+
+Todo for perl 5.12, virtualize operating system access.
+
+=back
+
+L<perlhack> documentation extensively improved by Jarkko Hietaniemi and others.
+
+L<perltoot> provides information on modifying C<@UNIVERSAL::ISA>.
+
+L<perlport> documentation extended to include different C<kill(-9, ...)>
+semantics on Windows. It also clearly states C<dump()> is not supported on Win32
+and cygwin.
+
+=head1 Changes to Existing Documentation
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+L<perltodo> was, of course, extensively modified; with the notable marking of the srlcpy/strcat 
+to my_strlcpy/my_strcat update as a TODONE.
+
+=item *
+
+L<INSTALL> has been updated and modernized.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Performance Enhancements
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+The default since perl 5.000 has been for perl to create an empty scalar
+with every new typeglob. The increased use of lexical variables means that
+most are now unused. Thanks to Nicholas Clark's efforts, Perl can now be
+compiled with C<-DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV> to avoid creating these empty scalars.
+This will significantly decrease the number of scalars allocated for all
+configurations, and the number of scalars that need to be copied for ithread
+creation. Whilst this option is binary compatible with existing perl
+installations, it does change a long-standing assumption about the
+internals, hence it is not enabled by default, as some third party code may
+rely on the old behaviour.
+
+We would recommend testing with this configuration on new deployments of
+perl, particularly for multi-threaded servers, to see whether all third party
+code is compatible with it, as this configuration may give useful performance
+improvements. For existing installations we would not recommend changing to
+this configuration unless thorough testing is performed before deployment.
+
+=item *
+
+Reblessing an object from a class that doesn't use overloads to one
+that does (or vice versa) is now faster. (31996, 32019, 32025).
+
+=item *
+
+C<diagnostics> no longer uses C<$&>, which results in large speedups
+for regexp matching in all code using it.
+
+=item *
+
+Regular expressions classes of a single character are now treated the same as
+if the character had been used as a literal, meaning that code that uses
+char-classes as an escaping mechanism will see a speedup. (Yves Orton)
+
+=item *
+
+Regular expression introduces C</k> modifier for matching along with new perl
+variables C<${^PREMATCH}>, C<${^MATCH}>, C<${^POSTMATCH}> which are equivalent
+to C<$`>, C<$&> and C<$'>, B<except> that they are only guaranteed to be
+defined after a successful match that was executed with the C</k> (keep-copy)
+modifier. The use of these variables incurs no global performance penalty,
+unlike their punctuation char equivalents (#32263).
+
+=item *
+
+Creating anonymous array and hash references (ie. C<[]> and C<{}>) now incurs
+no more overhead than creating an anonymous list or hash. Nicholas Clark provid
+changes with a saving of two ops and one stack push, measured as a 6.4% improve 
+
+=item *
+
+Substitutions with repeated right hand expressions (ie. C<s///ge>) are now more
+efficient.
+
+
+=item *
+
+Stopped memory leak on long /etc/groups entries
+
+=item *
+
+Recursive regexes now possible.  Possessive quantifiers and named captures are 
+now possible within the regex engine.
+
+=item *
+
+The MY_CXT API has been made more efficient (and an explicit interpeter argument
+variant has been added).
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+F<g++> support was tuned, especially for FreeBSD.
+
+C<Configure> is now better at removing temporary files. Tom Callaway
+(from RedHat) also contributed patches that completes the set of flags
+passed to the compiler and the linker. Especially, C<-fPIC> is now
+enabled on linux. It will also croak when your F</dev/null> isn't a device.
+
+There are improved hints for DEC/OSF, VOS (33425), Cygwin (33484).
+
+Many compilation warnings were cleaned up (33415, 33417, 33418, 33419,
+33420, 33421, 33427, 33428, 33429, 33435, 33436, 33441, 33444, 33479,
+33590, 31347, 31073, 31074, 31075)
+
+Added C<d_pseudofork> to C<Configure> which is a new configuration variable,
+available as C<$Config{d_pseudofork}> in the L<Config> module, has been added,
+to distinguish real fork() support from fake pseudofork used on Windows
+platforms.
+
+L<ptar> and L<ptardiff> are no longer installed to C<$installbin>
+
+C<Config.pod> and C<config.sh> are now placed correctly for cross-compilation.
+
+'unexpand -a' spaces converted to tabs to create smaller Changes files.
+
+$Config{useshrplib} is now 'true' rather than 'yes' when using a shared perl
+library.
+
+C<installman> now works with C<-Duserelocatableinc> and C<DESTDIR>.
+
+C<installperl> no longer installs:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+static library files of statically linked extensions when a shared perl library
+is being used. (They are not needed, also see L<Windows> specific reasons).
+
+=item *
+
+C<SIGNATURE> and C<PAUSE*.pub> (CPAN files)
+
+=item *
+
+C<NOTES> and C<PATCHING> (ExtUtils files)
+
+=item *
+
+C<perlld> and C<ld2> (Cygwin files)
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Platform Specific Changes
+
+=head3 FreeBSD
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Drop C<-std=c89> and C<-ansi> if using 'long long' as the main integral type.
+
+In FreeBSD 6.2 (and perhaps other releases), headers do not declare a required
+function if this is not done.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Solaris
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Starting with Solaris 10, we don't want versioned shared libraries because
+those often indicate a private use only library.  Especially badly that would
+break things with L<SUNWbdb> (Berkeley DB) being installed.
+
+If Solaris 10 is detected set C<ignore_versioned_solibs=y>.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 VMS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Allow IEEE math to be deselected on OpenVMS I64 (but it remains the default).
+
+=item *
+
+Record IEEE usage in C<config.h>
+
+=item *
+
+Help older VMS compilers by using C<ccflags> when building C<munchconfig.exe>.
+
+=item * 
+
+Don't try to build old L<Thread> extension on VMS when C<-Duseithreads> has
+been chosen. (31104)
+
+=item * 
+
+Better suppression logic for not building L<Thread> extension (31226).
+
+=item * 
+
+Fix the case of C<$Config{perl_patchlevel}> (31544) (but keep setting
+C<$Config{PERL_PATCHLEVEL}> and grab the value from a C<MAINTXXX> or 
+C<SMOKEXXX> line in patchlevel.h if present. (31597)).
+
+=item *
+
+Passing a raw string of "NaN" to L<nawk(1)> causes a core dump - so the string
+has been changed to "*NaN*" (31975)
+
+=item *
+
+Removed F<vms/genconfig.pl> and references to it (obsolete as of change 1084).
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Windows
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+When using a shared perl library C<installperl> no longer installs static
+library files, import library files and export library files (of statically
+linked extensions) and empty bootstrap files (of dynamically linked
+extensions).
+
+This fixes a problem building PAR-Packer on Win32 with a debug build of perl.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Overloading flags are now stored on the referent instead of the reference.
+Previously taking a new, unrelated reference to an object could result in
+the original (blessed) reference being able to access the overload while
+the new reference could not.  (Test added in 32016).
+
+=item *
+
+C<encoding> pragma now correctly ignores anything following an C<@> character in
+the C<LC_ALL> and C<LANG> environment variables. (RT # 49646)
+
+=item *
+
+Magic is no longer invoked twice by the expression C<\&$x>
+
+=item *
+
+A segfault observed with some gcc 3.3 optimisations is resolved.
+
+=item *
+
+A possible segfault when L<unpack> used in scalar context with C<()> groups
+is resolved. (RT #50256)
+
+=item *
+
+Resolved issue where C<$!> could be changed by a signal handler interrupting
+a C<system()> call.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed problems with split, unicode /\s+/ and / \0/.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #37886, unsafe dereferencations were allowed in the argument of
+C<defined()> even under the influence of C<use strict 'refs'>.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed a long-standing bug that caused incorrect line numbers to be
+reported in error messages about elsif blocks.
+
+=item *
+
+The tokenizer no longer treats =cute (and other words beginning
+with =cut) as a synonym for =cut.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #43207, where lc()/uc() inside sort affected the return
+value.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #45337, where using certain UTF-8 patterns in a regex led
+to a panic.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #45607, where *{"BONK"} = \&{"BONK"} didn't work correctly.
+
+=item *
+
+The "Unrecognised character 'x'" error now specifies in which column the
+unrecognised character actually occurred.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug on RT #43010, now C<B::Deparse> handles ''->(), ::(), sub :: {}, 
+etc correctly (31268). All bugs in parsing these kind of syntax are now fixed:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+perl -MO=Deparse -e '"my %h = "->()'
+
+=item *
+
+perl -MO=Deparse -e '::->()'
+
+=item *
+
+perl -MO=Deparse -e 'sub :: {}'
+
+=item *
+
+perl -MO=Deparse -e 'package a; sub a::b::c {}'
+
+=item *
+
+perl -MO=Deparse -e 'sub the::main::road {}'
+
+=back
+
+=item * 
+
+Fix MRO behaviour when one undefs C<@ISA> (32542)
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #35878, croaking from a XSUB called via goto &xsub corrupts perl
+internals.
+
+=item * 
+
+Fix descriptor leak caused by change (30633) to C<PerlIO_exportFILE> (32224)
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #32539, C<DynaLoader.o> is moved into C<libperl.so> to avoid the need to
+statically link DynaLoader into the stub perl executable and make C<libperl.so>
+provides all codes needed to get a functional embedded perl interpreter runs.
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug 36267 so that assigning to a tied hash doesn't change the
+underlying hash (27636)
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug RT #6006, regex replaces using large replacement variables fail some of
+the time, i.e. when substitution contains something like C<${10}> (note the
+bracket) instead of just C<$10> (29616 - 29619).
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug RT #55302, a long existed bug when using C<B::CC> on threaded perl which
+uses eval will cause syntax error.
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug #45053, newCONSTSUB() is now thread safe.
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug #42839 - the unicode swatch cache is now used (the lookup had a key
+mismatch).
+
+=item *
+
+Fix bug #40641 - fixed encoding of unicode characters in regular expressions.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Platform Specific Fixes
+
+=head3 Darwin / MacOS X
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Various improvements to 64 bit builds.
+
+=item *
+
+Mutex protection added in PerlIOStdio_close to avoid race conditions.  May
+fix threads free.t and blocks.t failures on OS X on 5.8.x (33502).
+
+=item *
+
+Added forked terminal support to debugger under MacOSX (29415)
+
+=item *
+
+L<perl5db.pl> has been updated for Mac OS X 10.5 (as there is now a direct
+accessor for the tty device name) to update the window title.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Windows
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Find> used to fail when the target dir is a bare drive letter and
+C<no_chdir> is 1 (the default is 0). (RT #41555)
+
+C<Win32API::File> added to the core
+
+=item *
+
+A build problem with specifying C<USE_MULTI> and C<USE_ITHREADS> but without
+C<USE_IMP_SYS> has been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+The process id is no longer truncated to 16 bits on some Windows platforms
+( L<http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72443> )
+
+=item *
+
+Various improvements to the win32 build process, includding support for Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (aka Visual C++ 8.x). Also you should now have an icon for perl.exe if built with MinGW or Borland. 
+
+=item *
+
+Improvements to the perl-static.exe build process.
+
+=item *
+
+Add Win32 makefile option to link all extensions statically.
+
+=item *
+
+Merge WinCE into Win32 directory (30281-30284, 20862)
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed bug RT #54828 in C<perlio.c> when calling C<Binmode()> on Win32 and Cgywin
+may cause segmentation fault.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 VMS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed PerlIO::Scalar in-memory file record-style reads.
+
+=item *
+
+Make pipe shutdown on VMS care about whether PerlIO has already shut down (33005)
+
+=item *
+
+Fix VMS exit handling broken in Test::Harness 2.64 (33008)
+
+=item *
+
+Fix fcntl locking capability test in C<configure.com> (31756)
+
+=item *
+
+Replaced C<shrplib='define'> with C<useshrplib='true'> on VMS.
+
+=item *
+
+Fix missing C<PerlIO_releaseFILE> in C<VMS::Stdio::getname> (31384)
+
+=back
+
+=head3 OS/2
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+A build problem with specifying C<USE_MULTI> and C<USE_ITHREADS> but without
+C<USE_IMP_SYS> has been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+C<OS2::REXX> upgraded to version 1.04
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Tru64
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Aligned floating point build policies for cc and gcc. 
+
+=back
+
+=head3 RedHat Linux
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Revisited a patch from 5.6.1 for RH7.2 for Intel's icc (RT #7916), added an aditional check for $Config{gccversion}.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Windows and OS/2
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+A build problem with specifying C<USE_MULTI> and C<USE_ITHREADS> but without
+C<USE_IMP_SYS> has been fixed.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Solaris/i386
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Use -DPTR_IS_LONG when using 64 bit integers (27001)
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Symbian
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Added support for Symbian series 90.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Smaller fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+It's now possible to overload C<eq> when using C<nomethod>.
+
+=item *
+
+Various problems using L<overload> with 64-bit ints corrected (identified
+in new tests).
+
+=item *
+
+The reference count of PerlIO file descriptors is now correctly handled.
+
+=item *
+
+On VMS, escaped dots will be preserved when converted to UNIX syntax.
 
-=head1 New Documentation
+=item *
 
-=head1 Performance Enhancements
+L<B::Deparse> has been instructed on:
 
 =over
 
 =item *
 
-The default since perl 5.000 has been for perl to create an empty scalar
-with every new typeglob. The increased use of lexical variables means that
-most are now unused. Thanks to Nicholas Clark's efforts, Perl can now be
-compiled with C<-DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV> to avoid creating these empty scalars.
-This will significantly decrease the number of scalars allocated for all
-configurations, and the number of scalars that need to be copied for ithread
-creation. Whilst this option is binary compatible with existing perl
-installations, it does change a long-standing assumption about the
-internals, hence it is not enabled by default, as some third party code may
-rely on the old behaviour.
+how to properly deparse C<print readpipe $x, $y>.
 
-We would recommend testing with this configuration on new deployments of
-perl, particularly for multi-threaded servers, to see whether all third party
-code is compatible with it, as this configuration may give useful performance
-improvements. For existing installations we would not recommend changing to
-this configuration unless thorough testing is performed before deployment.
+=item *
+
+B<not> to deparse C<$^H{v_string}>, which is automatically set by the internals.
 
 =back
 
-=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
+=item *
 
-=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+C<keys %+> no longer throws an C<'ambiguous'> warning.
+
+=item * 
+
+C<index> works faster now if the search string is stored in UTF-8 but actually
+fits into Latin-1.
+
+=item * 
+
+Reduced number of calls to C<getpeername> in L<IO::Socket> (29129).
+
+=item *
+
+C<chr(65535)> ought to be allowed in regexes.
+
+=item *
+
+L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> now detects DragonFlyBSD as a BSDish operating system (33006)
+
+=item * 
+
+Using C<#!perl -d> could trigger an assertion, which has been fixed (30075).
+
+=item *
+
+Don't stringify tied code references in C<@INC> when calling C<require>.
+(30068)
+
+=item *
+
+Code references in C<@INC> report the correct file name when C<__FILE__> is
+used (30068).
+
+=item *
+
+Width and precion in sprintf didn't handle wide characters correctly (30058).
+
+=item *
+
+List slices with indices out of range now work more consistently (30026).
+
+=item *
+
+The C<-s> switch on the shebang line is again capable of parsing options with
+arguments of the form C<-foo=bar> (29865).
+
+=item *
+
+tr/// is now threadsafe (29765)
+
+=item *
+
+De-duplicate C<@EXPORT> (26459)
+
+=item *
+
+C<pod2html> will label anchors more consistently (32079) and handles nested
+definition lists better (32727).
+
+=item *
+
+No longer segfaults when your locale charset is not utf8 with
+C<use open ':locale'> and printing Unicode characters to STDERR (30213)
+
+=item *
+
+L<threads> cleanup veto has been extended to include C<perl_free> and
+C<perl_destruct> (29827)
+
+C<PL_veto_cleanup> now happens on all platforms, not
+just UNIX (31971)
+
+=item *
+
+C<B> now can compile outside of the perl source tree.
+
+=item *
+
+On some systems, changes to C<$ENV{TZ}> would not always be
+respected by the underlying calls to C<localtime_r>.  Perl now
+forces the inspection of the environment on these systems.  (29213)
+
+=item *
+
+Calling C<dump()> from Win32 and cygwin now gives a proper fatal error (26947).
+
+=item *
+
+Avoid a segfault for perl built without C<PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV> defined
+when writing to C<$ARGV>. (32472, 32473)
+
+=item *
+
+The special variable C<$^R> is now more consistently set when executing
+regexps using the C<(?{...})> construct.  In particular, it will still
+be set even if backreferences or optional sub-patterns C<(?:...)?> are
+used.  (30100)
+
+=item *
+
+Avoid a subtle problem which caused L<SQL::Translator> to mistakenly
+see a proxy constant subroutines as a GV (typeglob structure). (32172)
+
+=back
 
 =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
 
+=head2 Maximal count of pending signals (%s) exceeded
+
+This new fatal error occurs when the perl process has to abort due to
+too many pending signals, which is bound to prevent perl from being
+able to handle further incoming signals safely.
+
+=head2 Panic: attempt to call %s in %s
+
+This new fatal error occurs when a file test operator is used that is 
+not availble on the current platfom (25987).
+
+=head2 Can't upgrade %s (%d) to %d
+
+This error now reports the type of things that made the upgrade fail (27253).
+
+=head2 %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine
+
+This error, thrown if an invalid argument is provided to C<exists> now
+correctly includes "or a subroutine". (RT #38955)
+
+=head2 Cannot make the non-overridable builtin %s fatal
+
+This error in L<Fatal> previously did not show the name of the builtin in
+question (now represented by %s above).
+
+=head2 Offset outside string
+
+Changed to add the seek operation and is now included in the default warnings
+pragma (28903).
+
+=head2 Invalid escape in the specified encoding in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+New error, introduced as part of the fix to RT #40641 to handle encoding
+of unicode characters in regular expression comments.
+
+=head2 FETCHSIZE returned a negative value
+
+New error indicating that a tied array has claimed to have a negative
+number of elements (31116).
+
 =head1 Changed Internals
 
+The new API function C<newSV_type> can be used to replace more efficiently the
+common idiom
+
+    sv = newSV(0);
+    sv_upgrade(sv, type);
+
+A C<sigbit> public function was added to test the sign of a NV. It maps to the
+system one when available.
+
+C<av_reify>, C<lex_end>, C<mod>, C<op_clear>, C<pop_return>,
+C<qerror>, C<setdefout>, C<vivify_defelem> and C<yylex> are now
+visible to perl core extensions. This was required by L<Data::Alias>.
+
+C<find_runcv> is now visible to perl core extensions. This was required to
+allow L<Sub::Current> to work on Windows.
+
+C<set> magic on localizing/assigning to a magic variable will now only
+trigger for I<container magics>, i.e. it will for C<%ENV> or C<%SIG>
+but not for C<$#array>.
+
+Display the process id as part of the trace output if running with C<-Dv> (33039)
+
+A lot of small improvents in the code base were made due to reports from
+the Coverity static code analyzer.
+
+C<ptr_table> functions are now available in unthreaded perl.
+
+Corrected use and documentation of C<gv_stashpv>, C<gv_stashpvn>, C<gv_stashsv>
+functions (last parameter is a bitmask, not boolean).
+
+C<PERL_SYS_INIT>, C<PERL_SYS_INIT3> and C<PERL_SYS_TERM> macros have been
+changed into functions (31970).
+
+Machine generated C<B::Asmdata> via C<bytecode.pl> is now more warnings free and
+read C<@optype> and C<@specialsv_name> from ext/B/B.pm (#32264, #32266)
+
+C<PERLSYS_TERM> no longer requires a context (32216). In C<PerlIO_teardown>
+is now also called without a context (32215), and debugging output in this
+function has been disabled because this requires that an interpreter is present
+(32235).
+
+Reorder global variable in C<intrpvar.h> saves another 40 bytes from the
+interpreter structure (#31034). Also delete C<thrdvar.h> and move its contents
+to C<intrpvar.h> (#31245).
+
+Support for B<assertions> and B<-A> is now removed from C<XS> module and in
+C<ext> (#31333). 
+
+"Bake" the values of C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_VERSION> and C<PERL_SUBVERSION>
+into global variables (and hence a shared perl library). Additionally under
+C<MULTIPLICITY> record the size of the interpreter structure (total, and for
+this version) and under C<PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT> the size of the global variables
+structure. Coupled with PL_bincompat_options this will allow 5.10.1 (and
+later), when compiled with a shared perl library, to perform sanity checks in
+C<main()> to verify that the shared library is indeed binary compatible.
+
+All compile time options which affect binary compatability have been grouped
+together into a global variable (C<PL_bincompat_options>). This will allow
+comparisons to be made in the future.
+
 =head1 New Tests
 
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Regression tests for anchored regexes using C<\s> that failed to set C<$&>
+(30073).
+
+=item * 
+
+Regression tests for sprintf with 64 bit semantics (30058).
+
+=item *
+
+Tests for L<overload> for 64-bit ints (32141).
+
+=item *
+
+Tests for tainting and C<open> with C<|-> as second argument (30048).
+
+=item *
+
+C<exit> can now be called in expressions that the optimizer constant-folds
+(29976).
+
+=item *
+
+Test smallbuf overflow in S_incline (30024)
+
+=item *
+
+Tests for mathematical functions in L<POSIX>
+
+=item *
+
+Verify POSIX::AUTOLOAD works (29592)
+
+=item *
+
+Remove C<DynaLoader> from C<1_compile.t> as it's now part of C<libperl.so>
+(27549, 27566, 28226, 28227, 28228, 28274, 28308). Also skip failure test on
+these patforms: VMS, darwin, OpenBSD, and cygwin (28333, 28840, 29253, 29707).
+
+=item *
+
+Added bitflip hash tests (31914, 31915)
+
+=item *
+
+Tests for C<hv_delete>, C<hv_exists>, C<hv_fetch>, C<hv_store> (31905, 31912)
+
+=item *
+
+Test disabling key conversion in hash lookups (31923)
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Significantly improved testing for C<$/> usage with PerlIO::Scalar in-memory
+files.
+
+=item *
+
+Test both C<MY_CXT> and C<MY_CXT_INTERP> in the CXT API.
+
+=item *
+
+Added test to run regex substitution C<s///> under taint mode (29618).
+
+=item *
+
+Tests for L<Thread>.
+
+=item *
+
+Regression tests for L<base> manipulation of C<@ISA> under certain
+inheritance conditions. (32469)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that L<base> does not mask C<SIGDIE>. (32469)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that L<base> does not confuse the version. (32469)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that inheriting from a base with protected fields generates a warning.
+(32469)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that L<base> can coexist with a L<consant> called C<FIELDS>. (31420)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that L<Carp::cluck> correctly reports undef values. (31858)
+
+=item *
+
+Test that C<$@> is correctly localised in L<Locale::Maketext>. (25547)
+
+=item *
+
+B<TODO> test for "C<goto()> from an if to an else doesn't undo local". (RT #43403)
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Changed Tests
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<setlocale()> tests have been re-enabled for Windows XP onwards. (31491)
+
+=item *
+
+C<commonsense.t> tests no longer require that C<DB_File> or C<*DBM_File> are
+included. (31528)
+
+=item *
+
+Printing to C<stdout> by C<TabsWrap> tests has been consolidated to avoid
+problems with VMS pipes. (31646)
+
+=item *
+
+C<t/op/stat.t> tests will now test hard links on VMS if they are supported.
+(31665, 31666)
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Known Problems
 
-=head1 Platform Specific Problems
+None.
+
+=head1 Platform Specific Notes
+
+=head2 Win32
+
+C<readdir()>, C<cwd()>, C<$^X> and C<@INC> now use the alternate (short)
+filename if the long name is outside the current codepage (Jan Dubois).
+
+=head3 Updated Modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<Win32> upgraded to version 0.38. Now has a documented 'WinVista' response
+from GetOSName and support for Vista's privilege elevation in C<IsAdminUser>.
+Support for Unicode characters in path names. Improved cygwin and Win64
+compatibility. 
+
+=item *
+
+C<Win32API> updated to 0.1001_01 (30411)
+
+=item *
+
+C<killpg()> support added to C<MSWin32> (Jan Dubois).
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Spec::Win32> upgraded to version 3.2701 (see above).
+
+=back
+
+=head2 OS/2
+
+=head3 Updated Modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<OS2::Process>: Ilya Zakharevich has added and documented several C<Window*> and
+C<Clipbrd*> functions.
+
+=item *
+
+C<OS2::REXX::DLL>, C<OS2::REXX> updated to version 1.03
+
+=back
+
+=head2 VMS
+
+=head3 Updated Modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<File::Spec::VMS> upgraded to version 3.2701 (see above).
+
+=item *
+
+C<VMS::XSSymSet> upgraded to 1.1 (31236).
+
+=back
 
 =head1 Reporting Bugs
 
@@ -83,3 +2047,4 @@
 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
 
 =cut
+
End of Patch.

• Change 34708: Initial check-in of the final (mostly complete) perl589delta from Paul by Nicholas Clark