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Heya all, This is a notice that cPanel has apparently begun shipping a fork of Storable.pm which reports to be version "2.39_01", and which by default does not bless objects during deserialization. This, unsurprisingly, breaks any number of things; we've begun getting bug reports[1] from administrators of RT whose installs have mysteriously been broken by cPanel upgrading their perl install. Core perl chose to document the issue[2] and release 2.40, but cPanel seems to have decided to release their own fork of Storable into the wild[3], under the same name, which breaks backwards compatibility. The cPanel fork looks to actually be an extensive set of patches atop version 2.25 (or thereabouts) of Storable, and thus does not contain a number of changes included in the CPAN/core release of 2.40 -- but the "2.39_01" release is the first to obviously break compatibility with the canonical version. - Alex [1] http://issues.bestpractical.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=21765&user=guest&pass=guest [2] http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/664f237a84176c09b20b62dbfe64dd736a7ce05e [3] http://cpanel.net/important-11-30-11-32-11-34-cpanel-whm-updates-available/Thread Next