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PERL5341DELTA(1)                  Perl Programmers Reference Guide                  PERL5341DELTA(1)

NAME
       perl5341delta - what is new for perl v5.34.1

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes differences between the 5.34.0 release and the 5.34.1 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.33.0, first read perl5340delta, which
       describes differences between 5.33.0 and 5.34.0.

Incompatible Changes
       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0.  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
       •   B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.56 to 1.57.

       •   Encode has been upgraded from version 3.08 to 3.08_01.

       •   GDBM_File has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.19_01.

       •   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to 5.20220313.

       •   perl5db.pl has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.60_01.

Testing
       Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release.

   Platform-Specific Notes
       Windows
           •   Support  for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (containing
               Visual C++ 14.3) has been added.

Selected Bug Fixes
       •   B::Deparse now correctly handles try/catch blocks with more complex scopes.   [GH  #18874
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18874>]

       •   try/catch  now  correctly  returns the last evaluated expression when the catch block has
           more than one statement. [GH #18855 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18855>]

Acknowledgements
       Perl 5.34.1 represents approximately 10 months of development since Perl 5.34.0 and  contains
       approximately 4,600 lines of changes across 60 files from 23 authors.

       Excluding  auto-generated  files,  documentation  and release tools, there were approximately
       1,100 lines of changes to 18 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

       Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users  and
       developers.  The  following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became
       Perl 5.34.1:

       Andrew Fresh, Atsushi Sugawara, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, Hugo van der Sanden, James
       E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Leon Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michiel  Beijen,
       Neil  Bowers, Nicolas R., Paul Evans, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X,
       Sergey Poznyakoff, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, 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  perl  bug  database  at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.      There     may    also    be    information    at
       <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.

       If   you   believe   you   have   an   unreported   bug,   please   open    an    issue    at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.   Be  sure  to  trim  your  bug  down  to  a tiny but
       sufficient test case.

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

Give Thanks
       If  you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by
       running the "perlthanks" program:

           perlthanks

       This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.

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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