{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# PERL5301DELTA (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nperl5301delta - what is new for perl v5.30.1\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nThis document describes differences between the 5.30.0 release and the 5.30.1 release.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **DESCRIPTION** (3 subsections)\n- **Documentation** (2 subsections)\n- **Testing** (3 subsections)\n- **Acknowledgements** (2 subsections)\n- **SEE ALSO**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "PERL5301DELTA", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "perl5301delta - what is new for perl v5.30.1", "synopsis": null, "tldr_summary": null, "tldr_examples": [], "tldr_source": null, "flags": [], "examples": [], "see_also": [], "section_outline": [ { "name": "NAME", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DESCRIPTION", "lines": 5, "subsections": [ { "name": "Incompatible Changes", "lines": 3 }, { "name": "Modules and Pragmata", "lines": 1 }, { "name": "Updated Modules and Pragmata", "lines": 2 } ] }, { "name": "Documentation", "lines": 1, "subsections": [ { "name": "Changes to Existing Documentation", "lines": 6 }, { "name": "Configuration and Compilation", "lines": 5 } ] }, { "name": "Testing", "lines": 2, "subsections": [ { "name": "Platform Support", "lines": 1 }, { "name": "Platform-Specific Notes", "lines": 8 }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "lines": 21 } ] }, { "name": "Acknowledgements", "lines": 24, "subsections": [ { "name": "Reporting Bugs", "lines": 13 }, { "name": "Give Thanks", "lines": 7 } ] }, { "name": "SEE ALSO", "lines": 11, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "perl5301delta - what is new for perl v5.30.1\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "This document describes differences between the 5.30.0 release and the 5.30.1 release.\n\nIf you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.28.0, first read perl5300delta, which\ndescribes differences between 5.28.0 and 5.30.0.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "Incompatible Changes", "content": "There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.1. If any exist, they are bugs,\nand we request that you submit a report. See \"Reporting Bugs\" below.\n" }, { "name": "Modules and Pragmata", "content": "" }, { "name": "Updated Modules and Pragmata", "content": "• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20190522 to 5.20191110.\n" } ] }, "Documentation": { "content": "", "subsections": [ { "name": "Changes to Existing Documentation", "content": "We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes listed in this document.\nIf you find any we have missed, send email to perlbug@perl.org .\n\nAdditionally, documentation has been updated to reference GitHub as the new canonical\nrepository and to describe the new GitHub pull request workflow.\n" }, { "name": "Configuration and Compilation", "content": "• The \"ECHO\" macro is now defined. This is used in a \"dtrace\" rule that was originally\nchanged for FreeBSD, and the FreeBSD make apparently predefines it. The Solaris make\ndoes not predefine \"ECHO\" which broke this rule on Solaris. [perl #17057]\n\n" } ] }, "Testing": { "content": "Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "Platform Support", "content": "" }, { "name": "Platform-Specific Notes", "content": "Win32\nThe locale tests could crash on Win32 due to a Windows bug, and separately due to the CRT\nthrowing an exception if the locale name wasn't validly encoded in the current code page.\n\nFor the second we now decode the locale name ourselves, and always decode it as UTF-8.\n\n[perl #16922] \n" }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "content": "• Setting $) now properly sets supplementary group ids, if you have the necessary\nprivileges. [perl #17031] \n\n• \"readline @foo\" now evaluates @foo in scalar context. Previously, it would be evaluated\nin list context, and since readline() pops only one argument from the stack, the stack\ncould underflow, or be left with unexpected values on it. [perl #16929]\n\n\n• svgets() now recovers better if the target SV is modified by a signal handler. [perl\n#16960] \n\n• Matching a non-\"SVfUTF8\" string against a regular expression containing Unicode literals\ncould leak an SV on each match attempt. [perl #17140]\n\n\n• \"sprintf(\"%.*a\", -10000, $x)\" would cause a buffer overflow due to mishandling of the\nnegative precision value. [perl #16942] \n\n• \"scalar()\" on a reference could cause an erroneous assertion failure during compilation.\n[perl #16969] \n" } ] }, "Acknowledgements": { "content": "Perl 5.30.1 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl 5.30.0 and contains\napproximately 4,700 lines of changes across 67 files from 14 authors.\n\nExcluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 910\nlines of changes to 20 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.\n\nPerl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and\ndevelopers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became\nPerl 5.30.1:\n\nChris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Karen\nEtheridge, Karl Williamson, Manuel Mausz, Max Maischein, Nicolas R., Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Tom\nHukins, Tony Cook.\n\nThe list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version\ncontrol history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated)\ncontributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.\n\nMany of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in\nPerl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.\n\nFor a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS\nfile in the Perl source distribution.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "Reporting Bugs", "content": "If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at\n. There may also be information at , the Perl\nHome Page.\n\nIf you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your\nrelease. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report,\nalong with the output of \"perl -V\", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by\nthe Perl porting team.\n\nIf the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to\na publicly archived mailing list, then see \"SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION\" in\nperlsec for details of how to report the issue.\n" }, { "name": "Give Thanks", "content": "If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by\nrunning the \"perlthanks\" program:\n\nperlthanks\n\nThis will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.\n" } ] }, "SEE ALSO": { "content": "The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.\n\nThe INSTALL file for how to build Perl.\n\nThe README file for general stuff.\n\nThe Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.\n\n\n\nperl v5.34.0 2025-07-25 PERL5301DELTA(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }