PERL5162DELTA(1)

✨ PERL5162DELTA ✨

okay bestie, gather round, we're reading the perl5162delta page together 💖 it's the tea on what's new for perl v5.16.2, and honestly? it's a short one, we love a low-effort era 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

perl5162delta — what is new for perl v5.16.2 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This doc spills the differences between the 5.16.1 release and the 5.16.2 release. no cap, that's the whole assignment 📝

If you're upgrading from an earlier release like, say, 5.16.0, then bestie you gotta go read perl5161delta first — that one describes the differences between 5.16.0 and 5.16.1. do it in order, it's giving syllabus 🦋

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😭 Incompatible Changes 😭

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0. If any exist? they're bugs, periodt. And we're literally begging you to submit a report — see "Reporting Bugs" below 👑

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🧚 Modules and Pragmata 🧚

✨ Updated Modules and Pragmata ✨

• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.70 to version 2.76. glow up fr fr 💅

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🔥 Configuration and Compilation 🔥

• configuration should no longer be confused by ls colorization 🎨 like, imagine getting gaslit by your own terminal. not anymore bestie.

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🌈 Platform Support 🌈

🦋 Platform-Specific Notes 🦋

• AIX — Configure now always adds -qlanglvl=extc99 to the CC flags on AIX when using xlC. This will make it easier to compile a number of XS-based modules that assume C99 [perl #113778]. iconic behavior honestly, C99 said let me in 💀

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⭐ Selected Bug Fixes ⭐

• fix /\h/ equivalence with /[\h]/ 🐛

see [perl #114220] 👀

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🎀 Known Problems 🎀

There are no new known problems. we're thriving, your honor 🌸

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🫶 Acknowledgements 🫶

Perl 5.16.2 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.16.1 and contains approximately 740 lines of changes across 20 files from 9 authors. the way that's like, a whole group project that actually got submitted on time 😭💖

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 5.16.2:

Andy Dougherty, Craig A. Berry, Darin McBride, Dominic Hargreaves, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Peter Martini, Ricardo Signes, Tony Cook. 👑✨ absolute main characters, every single one.

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. 🥺 y'all are seen and loved.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution 📚

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💀 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 http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . 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 — like, minimal repro or it didn't happen, bestie ✂️. Your bug report, along with the output of perl -V, will be sent off to perlbug@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@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. 🚨 like, that's the security hotline, don't use it for your CPAN module drama, iykyk.

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💖 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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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-03 — thanks for reading my little manual-page yap session, ily, go compile something cute 💅🦋✨