{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# PERL5302DELTA (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nperl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nThis document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2 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": "PERL5302DELTA", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2", "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": 4 } ] }, { "name": "Documentation", "lines": 1, "subsections": [ { "name": "Changes to Existing Documentation", "lines": 3 }, { "name": "Configuration and Compilation", "lines": 2 } ] }, { "name": "Testing", "lines": 2, "subsections": [ { "name": "Platform Support", "lines": 1 }, { "name": "Platform-Specific Notes", "lines": 3 }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "lines": 22 } ] }, { "name": "Acknowledgements", "lines": 24, "subsections": [ { "name": "Reporting Bugs", "lines": 12 }, { "name": "Give Thanks", "lines": 7 } ] }, { "name": "SEE ALSO", "lines": 11, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2 release.\n\nIf you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read perl5301delta, which\ndescribes differences between 5.30.0 and 5.30.1.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "Incompatible Changes", "content": "There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0. 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": "• Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.\n\n• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20191110 to 5.20200314.\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 .\n" }, { "name": "Configuration and Compilation", "content": "• GCC 10 is now supported by Configure.\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": "Windows\nThe MYMALLOC (PERLMALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed.\n" }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "content": "• printf() or sprintf() with the %n format no longer cause a panic on debugging builds, or\nreport an incorrectly cached length value when producing \"SVfUTF8\" flagged strings.\n\n[GH #17221 ]\n\n• A memory leak in regular expression patterns has been fixed.\n\n[GH #17218 ]\n\n• A read beyond buffer in grokinfnan has been fixed.\n\n[GH #17370 ]\n\n• An assertion failure in the regular expression engine has been fixed.\n\n[GH #17372 ]\n\n• \"(?{...})\" eval groups in regular expressions no longer unintentionally trigger \"EVAL\nwithout pos change exceeded limit in regex\".\n\n[GH #17490 ]\n" } ] }, "Acknowledgements": { "content": "Perl 5.30.2 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl 5.30.1 and contains\napproximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110 files from 15 authors.\n\nExcluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 920\nlines of changes to 30 .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 5.30.2:\n\nChris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen Etheridge, Karl\nWilliamson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R., Petr Písař, Renee Baecker, Sawyer X, Steve Hay,\nTomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.\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 open an issue at\n. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but\nsufficient test case.\n\nIf the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to\na public issue tracker, then see \"SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION\" in perlsec for\ndetails 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 PERL5302DELTA(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }