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NAME
       perl5222delta - what is new for perl v5.22.2

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes differences between the 5.22.1 release and the 5.22.2 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.0, first read perl5221delta, which
       describes differences between 5.22.0 and 5.22.1.

Security
   Fix out of boundary access in Win32 path handling
       This is CVE-2015-8608.  For more information see [GH #15067]
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15067>.

   Fix loss of taint in canonpath()
       This is CVE-2015-8607.  For more information see [GH #15084]
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15084>.

   Set proper umask before calling mkstemp(3)
       In 5.22.0 perl started setting umask to 0600 before calling mkstemp(3) and restoring it
       afterwards.  This wrongfully tells open(2) to strip the owner read and write bits from the
       given mode before applying it, rather than the intended negation of leaving only those bits
       in place.

       Systems that use mode 0666 in mkstemp(3) (like old versions of glibc) create a file with
       permissions 0066, leaving world read and write permissions regardless of current umask.

       This has been fixed by using umask 0177 instead.

       [GH #15135] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15135>

   Avoid accessing uninitialized memory in Win32 crypt()
       Validation that will detect both a short salt and invalid characters in the salt has been
       added.

       [GH #15091] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15091>

   Remove duplicate environment variables from "environ"
       Previously, if an environment variable appeared more than once in "environ[]", %ENV would
       contain the last entry for that name, while a typical getenv() would return the first entry.
       We now make sure %ENV contains the same as what getenv() returns.

       Secondly, we now remove duplicates from "environ[]", so if a setting with that name is set in
       %ENV we won't pass an unsafe value to a child process.

       This is CVE-2016-2381.

Incompatible Changes
       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with Perl 5.22.1.  If any exist, they are
       bugs, and we request that you submit a report.  See "Reporting Bugs" below.

Modules and Pragmata
   Updated Modules and Pragmata
       •   File::Spec has been upgraded from version 3.56 to 3.56_01.

           canonpath() now preserves taint.  See "Fix loss of taint in canonpath()".

       •   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20151213 to 5.20160429.

           The  version  number  of  Digest::SHA  listed  for  Perl  5.18.4  was  wrong and has been
           corrected.  Likewise for the version number of Config in 5.18.3 and 5.18.4.  [GH  #15202]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15202>

Documentation
   Changes to Existing Documentation
       perldiag

       •   The  explanation  of  the  warning "unable to close filehandle %s properly: %s" which can
           occur when doing an implicit close of a filehandle has been expanded and improved.

       perlfunc

       •   The documentation of hex() has been revised to clarify valid inputs.

Configuration and Compilation
       •   Dtrace builds now build successfully on systems with a newer dtrace that require an input
           object file that uses the probes in the .d file.

           Previously the probe would fail and cause a build failure.

           [GH #13985] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13985>

       •   Configure no longer probes for libnm by default.  Originally  this  was  the  "New  Math"
           library, but the name has been re-used by the GNOME NetworkManager.

           [GH #15115] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15115>

       •   Configure now knows about gcc 5.

       •   Compiling perl with -DPERL_MEM_LOG now works again.

Platform Support
   Platform-Specific Notes
       Darwin
           Compiling perl with -Dusecbacktrace on Darwin now works again.

           [GH #15245] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15245>

       OS X/Darwin
           Builds  with  both  -DDEBUGGING and threading enabled would fail with a "panic: free from
           wrong pool" error when built or tested from Terminal on OS X.  This was caused by  perl's
           internal  management of the environment conflicting with an atfork handler using the libc
           setenv() function to update the environment.

           Perl now uses setenv()/unsetenv() to update the environment on OS X.

           [GH #14955] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14955>

       ppc64el
           The floating point format of ppc64el (Debian naming for  little-endian  PowerPC)  is  now
           detected correctly.

       Tru64
           A test failure in t/porting/extrefs.t has been fixed.

Internal Changes
       •   An  unwarranted  assertion in Perl_newATTRSUB_x() has been removed.  If a stub subroutine
           definition with a prototype has been seen, then any subsequent stub  (or  definition)  of
           the  same subroutine with an attribute was causing an assertion failure because of a null
           pointer.

           [GH #15081] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15081>

Selected Bug Fixes
       •   Calls to the placeholder &PL_sv_yes used internally when an import() or unimport() method
           isn't    found    now    correctly    handle     scalar     context.      [GH     #14902]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14902>

       •   The  pipe() operator would assert for "DEBUGGING" builds instead of producing the correct
           error message.  The condition asserted on is detected and reported on  correctly  without
           the     assertions,     so     the     assertions     were    removed.     [GH    #15015]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15015>

       •   In some cases, failing to parse a here-doc would attempt to use freed memory.   This  was
           caused    by    a    pointer    not    being    restored    correctly.     [GH    #15009]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15009>

       •   Perl now reports more context when it sees an array where it expects to see an  operator,
           and         avoids         an        assertion        failure.         [GH        #14472]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14472>

       •   If a here-doc was found while parsing another operator, the parser had already  read  end
           of  file,  and  the  here-doc  was  not  terminated, perl could produce an assertion or a
           segmentation fault.  This now reliably complains about the  unterminated  here-doc.   [GH
           #14789] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14789>

       •   Parsing beyond the end of the buffer when processing a "#line" directive with no filename
           is now avoided.  [GH #15139] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15139>

       •   Perl  5.22.0 added support for the C99 hexadecimal floating point notation, but sometimes
           misparsed     hex     floats.      This     has     been     fixed.      [GH      #15120]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15120>

       •   Certain  regex  patterns  involving  a  complemented posix class in an inverted bracketed
           character class, and matching something else optionally would improperly fail  to  match.
           An  example of one that could fail is "qr/_?[^\Wbar]\x{100}/".  This has been fixed.  [GH
           #15181] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15181>

       •   Fixed an issue with pack() where "pack "H"" (and "pack "h"") could read past  the  source
           when    given    a    non-utf8    source    and    a    utf8    target.     [GH   #14977]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14977>

       •   Fixed some cases where perl would abort due to a segmentation fault, or a C-level assert.
           [GH      #14941]      <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14941>      [GH       #14962]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14962>                  [GH                 #14963]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14963>                 [GH                  #14997]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14997>                  [GH                 #15039]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15039>                 [GH                  #15247]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15247>                  [GH                 #15251]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15251>

       •   A  memory  leak  when  setting  $ENV{foo}  on  Darwin  has  been  fixed.    [GH   #14955]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14955>

       •   Perl  now  correctly  raises  an  error when trying to compile patterns with unterminated
           character   classes   while   there    are    trailing    backslashes.     [GH    #14919]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14919>

       •   "NOTHING"  regops  and  "EXACTFU_SS" regops in make_trie() are now handled properly.  [GH
           #14945] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14945>

       •   Perl now only tests semctl() if we have everything needed to  use  it.   In  FreeBSD  the
           semctl()  entry  point  may  exist,  but  it  can  be  disabled  by  policy.  [GH #15180]
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15180>

       •   A regression that allowed undeclared barewords as hash keys to  work  despite  strictures
           has been fixed.  [GH #15099] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15099>

       •   As  an  optimization  (introduced  in  Perl  5.20.0), uc(), lc(), ucfirst() and lcfirst()
           sometimes modify their argument in-place rather than  returning  a  modified  copy.   The
           criteria  for  this  optimization  has  been  made  stricter  to  avoid  these  functions
           accidentally modifying in-place when they should not, which has been  happening  in  some
           cases, e.g. in List::Util.

       •   Excessive memory usage in the compilation of some regular expressions involving non-ASCII
           characters has been reduced.  A more complete fix is forthcoming in Perl 5.24.0.

Acknowledgements
       Perl  5.22.2  represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.22.1 and contains
       approximately 3,000 lines of changes across 110 files from 24 authors.

       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release  tools,  there  were  approximately
       1,500 lines of changes to 52 .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 5.22.2:

       Aaron  Crane,  Abigail, Andreas König, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A.
       Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David  Golden,  David  Mitchell,  H.Merijn  Brand,  James  E
       Keenan,  Jarkko  Hietaniemi,  Karen  Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Niko Tyni,
       Ricardo Signes, Sawyer X, Stevan  Little,  Steve  Hay,  Todd  Rinaldo,  Tony  Cook,  Vladimir
       Timofeev, 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 AT 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 please send it to perl5-security-report AT perl.org.
       This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which  includes  all  the  core
       committers,  who  will  be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution,
       and help co-ordinate the release of patches  to  mitigate  or  fix  the  problem  across  all
       platforms  on  which  Perl is supported.  Please only use this address for security issues in
       the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.

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.

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