{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# perl5224delta (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nperl5224delta - what is new for perl v5.22.4\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nThis document describes differences between the 5.22.3 release and the 5.22.4 release.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **Security** (5 subsections)\n- **Acknowledgements** (1 subsections)\n- **SEE ALSO**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "perl5224delta", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "perl5224delta - what is new for perl v5.22.4", "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": "Security", "lines": 1, "subsections": [ { "name": "Improved handling of '.' in @INC in base.pm", "lines": 6 }, { "name": "\"Escaped\" colons and relative paths in PATH", "lines": 6 }, { "name": "Modules and Pragmata", "lines": 1 }, { "name": "Updated Modules and Pragmata", "lines": 4 }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "lines": 3 } ] }, { "name": "Acknowledgements", "lines": 24, "subsections": [ { "name": "Reporting Bugs", "lines": 17 } ] }, { "name": "SEE ALSO", "lines": 11, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "perl5224delta - what is new for perl v5.22.4\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "This document describes differences between the 5.22.3 release and the 5.22.4 release.\n\nIf you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.2, first read perl5223delta, which\ndescribes differences between 5.22.2 and 5.22.3.\n", "subsections": [] }, "Security": { "content": "", "subsections": [ { "name": "Improved handling of '.' in @INC in base.pm", "content": "The handling of (the removal of) '.' in @INC in base has been improved. This resolves some\nproblematic behaviour in the approach taken in Perl 5.22.3, which is probably best described\nin the following two threads on the Perl 5 Porters mailing list:\n,\n.\n" }, { "name": "\"Escaped\" colons and relative paths in PATH", "content": "On Unix systems, Perl treats any relative paths in the PATH environment variable as tainted\nwhen starting a new process. Previously, it was allowing a backslash to escape a colon\n(unlike the OS), consequently allowing relative paths to be considered safe if the PATH was\nset to something like \"/\\:.\". The check has been fixed to treat \".\" as tainted in that\nexample.\n" }, { "name": "Modules and Pragmata", "content": "" }, { "name": "Updated Modules and Pragmata", "content": "• base has been upgraded from version 2.22 to 2.2201.\n\n• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.2017011422 to 5.2017071522.\n" }, { "name": "Selected Bug Fixes", "content": "• Fixed a crash with \"s///l\" where it thought it was dealing with UTF-8 when it wasn't.\n[GH #15543] \n" } ] }, "Acknowledgements": { "content": "Perl 5.22.4 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl 5.22.3 and contains\napproximately 2,200 lines of changes across 52 files from 16 authors.\n\nExcluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 970\nlines of changes to 18 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.\n\nPerl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and\ndevelopers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became\nPerl 5.22.4:\n\nAaron Crane, Abigail, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, David Mitchell, Eric\nHerman, Father Chrysostomos, James E Keenan, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Renee Baecker,\nRicardo Signes, Sawyer X, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, 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 articles recently posted to the\ncomp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at https://rt.perl.org/ . There may\nalso be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home 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\nto a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org.\nThis points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core\ncommitters, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution,\nand help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all\nplatforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in\nthe Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.\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 PERL5224DELTA(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }