perl5242delta

PERL5242DELTA(1)       Perl Programmers Reference Guide       PERL5242DELTA(1)

NAME
       perl5242delta - what is new for perl v5.24.2

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes differences between the 5.24.1 release and the
       5.24.2 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read
       perl5241delta, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.24.1.

Security
   Improved handling of '.' in @INC in base.pm
       The handling of (the removal of) '.' in @INC in base has been improved.
       This resolves some problematic behaviour in the approach taken in Perl
       5.24.1, which is probably best described in the following two threads
       on the Perl 5 Porters mailing list:
       <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238991.html>,
       <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240297.html>.

   "Escaped" colons and relative paths in PATH
       On Unix systems, Perl treats any relative paths in the PATH environment
       variable as tainted when starting a new process.  Previously, it was
       allowing a backslash to escape a colon (unlike the OS), consequently
       allowing relative paths to be considered safe if the PATH was set to
       something like "/\:.".  The check has been fixed to treat "." as
       tainted in that example.

Modules and Pragmata
   Updated Modules and Pragmata
       o   base has been upgraded from version 2.23 to 2.23_01.

       o   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20170114_24 to
           5.20170715_24.

Selected Bug Fixes
       o   Fixed a crash with "s///l" where it thought it was dealing with
           UTF-8 when it wasn't.  [perl #129038]
           <https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129038>

Acknowledgements
       Perl 5.24.2 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl
       5.24.1 and contains approximately 2,500 lines of changes across 53
       files from 18 authors.

       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
       were approximately 960 lines of changes to 17 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

       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 5.24.2:

       Aaron Crane, Abigail, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan
       Collins, David Mitchell, Eric Herman, Father Chrysostomos, James E
       Keenan, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes,
       Sawyer X, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

       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.

       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.

       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

Reporting Bugs
       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.

       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug
       program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down to a
       tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the output
       of "perl -V", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by
       the Perl porting team.

       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
       inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see
       "SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of
       how to report the issue.

SEE ALSO
       The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
       on what changed.

       The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.

       The README file for general stuff.

       The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.

perl v5.30.0                      2023-11-23                  PERL5242DELTA(1)