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[perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.16.0-229-gef7131e

From:
Zefram
Date:
May 25, 2012 09:25
Subject:
[perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.16.0-229-gef7131e
Message ID:
E1SXxJq-0000vy-PN@camel.ams6.corp.booking.com
In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated

<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ef7131e95bde8b4e7c2ca22d53b73ad2e8f88eda?hp=53de3ff042c2e6ea1702e216f83787b1ad458fbc>

- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit ef7131e95bde8b4e7c2ca22d53b73ad2e8f88eda
Author: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Date:   Fri May 25 17:24:12 2012 +0100

    perldelta updates

M	pod/perldelta.pod

commit 021a6200bcdeb89e7372e32bdacd71bc6273a5f6
Author: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Date:   Fri May 25 17:23:48 2012 +0100

    correct schedule for 5.17.0 release

M	Porting/release_schedule.pod
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Summary of changes:
 Porting/release_schedule.pod |    2 +-
 pod/perldelta.pod            |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Porting/release_schedule.pod b/Porting/release_schedule.pod
index 4575e6d..60c6f2d 100644
--- a/Porting/release_schedule.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_schedule.pod
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ you should reset the version numbers to the next blead series.
 
 =head2 Perl 5.17
 
-  2012-05-??  5.17.0          Ricardo Signes
+  2012-05-26  5.17.0          Zefram
   2012-06-20  5.17.1          Jesse Luehrs
   2012-07-20  5.17.2
   2012-08-20  5.17.3
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 98a1a63..906aadc 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 =encoding utf8
 
+=for comment complete up to commit c9e3649f13e1c1db9054c8d419ce2969309e093d
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 [ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as
@@ -73,6 +75,15 @@ may well be none in a stable release.
 
 =item *
 
+Filetest ops manage the stack in a fractionally more efficient manner.
+
+=item *
+
+Globs used in a numeric context are now numerified directly in most cases,
+rather than being numerified via stringification.
+
+=item *
+
 XXX
 
 =back
@@ -112,6 +123,19 @@ internal field added in perl 5.16 under threaded builds [perl #113034].
 
 =item *
 
+L<File::DosGlob> has been upgraded from version 1.06 to 1.07.
+
+Small documentation and comment fixes.
+
+=item *
+
+L<File::Find> has been upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.
+
+Individual files may now appear in list of directories to be searched
+[perl #59750].
+
+=item *
+
 L<File::stat> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
 
 C<File::stat> ignores the L<filetest> pragma, and warns when used in
@@ -183,6 +207,21 @@ XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
 However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
 section.
 
+=head3 L<perldata>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Now explicitly documents the behaviour of hash initializer lists that
+contain duplicate keys.
+
+=item *
+
+XXX Description of the change here
+
+=back
+
 =head3 L<XXX>
 
 =over 4
@@ -278,6 +317,13 @@ L</Platform Support> section, instead.
 
 =item *
 
+The test suite now has a section for tests that require very large amounts
+of memory.  These tests won't run by default; they can be enabled by
+setting the C<PERL_TEST_MEMORY> environment variable to the number of
+gibibytes of memory that may be safely used.
+
+=item *
+
 XXX
 
 =back

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