PERL5162DELTA(1perl)

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💖 perl5162delta — what's new for perl v5.16.2 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the perl5162delta page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide. it's a lil delta doc, it's short, it's cute, and it tells you everything that changed between 5.16.1 and 5.16.2. let's get into it ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This doc is literally just the diff between the 5.16.1 release and the 5.16.2 release. that's the whole assignment 💅

heads up tho: if you're jumping up from something even older, like 5.16.0, you gotta read perl5161delta first, okay? that one covers the 5.16.0 → 5.16.1 glow-up. don't skip steps, bestie 🫶

💀 Incompatible Changes 💀

ngl there are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0. if you find one, that's a bug, not a feature. and we need you to report it. scroll down to "Reporting Bugs", it's right there 👇

🎀 Modules and Pragmata 🎀

✨ Updated Modules and Pragmata ✨

  • Module::CoreList — got upgraded from version 2.70 to version 2.76. glow up 💅

🛠️ Configuration and Compilation 🛠️

  • configuration should no longer be confused by ls colorization — yeah, that vibe check was failing before, now it isn't 🎀

🌈 Platform Support 🌈

🦋 Platform-Specific Notes 🦋

  • AIX — Configure now always adds -qlanglvl=extc99 to the CC flags on AIX when using xlC. this makes it way easier to compile a bunch of XS-based modules that just assume C99 is a thing. like, they assume it. and now AIX is like "okay fine, valid" ✨ [perl #113778]

🐛 Selected Bug Fixes 🐛

  • fix /\h/ equivalence with /[\h]/ — see [perl #114220] 👑

😭 Known Problems 😭

There are no new known problems. iconic, honestly. no baggage. ✨

🫶 Acknowledgements 🫶

Perl 5.16.2 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.16.1, and it contains approximately 740 lines of changes across 20 files from 9 authors. the way that's so much work in so little time, obsessed 😭💖

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

ngl that list above is almost certainly incomplete, because it's 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 the real ones, fr fr.

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 http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . there may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page. lowkey start there before you do anything dramatic 💅

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@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team. tiny but sufficient test case, bestie — do not dump your whole repo on them, i am begging 🙈

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.

👀 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.

k byeeee bestie, that's the whole page 🎀 this came from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, and it's the PERL5162DELTA(1perl) page — drink some water, back up your stuff, and go fix a bug or something 💖✨🦋

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