PERL5302DELTA(1perl)

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version 5.44.0 Β· 2 versions
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πŸ’– PERL5302DELTA πŸ’–

okay bestie, so like β€” this is from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, and it's the manual page PERL5302DELTA(1perl). Sit down, grab a strawberry πŸ“, because we're about to spill the tea on what's new for perl v5.30.2.

✨ NAME ✨

perl5302delta β€” what is new for perl v5.30.2 πŸ’…

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

This doc is literally just describing the differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2 release.

If you're upgrading from something even older, like 5.30.0, bestie you gotta go read perl5301delta first, because that one explains the differences between 5.30.0 and 5.30.1. Don't skip it, it's giving prerequisite energy. πŸ“š

πŸ’€ Incompatible Changes πŸ’€

There are no changes that are intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0. Zero. None. Nada.

If any do exist, they're bugs. Fr fr. And we'd love it if you'd submit a report β€” check out "Reporting Bugs" below for the deets.

πŸŽ€ Modules and Pragmata πŸŽ€

🌸 Updated Modules and Pragmata 🌸

  • Compress::Raw::Bzip2 got a glow up β€” upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089. ✨
  • Module::CoreList also got upgraded, from version 5.20191110 to 5.20200314. iconic honestly.

πŸ“– Documentation πŸ“–

πŸ’œ Changes to Existing Documentation πŸ’œ

We tried to update the docs to reflect everything listed in this document. If you spot one we missed, send an email to <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. We're not mad, we just wanna know. πŸ™ˆ

πŸ› οΈ Configuration and Compilation πŸ› οΈ

  • GCC 10 is now supported by Configure. no cap. πŸ”₯

πŸ§ͺ Testing πŸ§ͺ

Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release. Gotta test it to bless it. πŸ’…

🌈 Platform Support 🌈

⭐ Platform-Specific Notes ⭐

πŸͺŸ Windows

The MYMALLOC (PERL_MALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed. she's stable now. 🫢

πŸ”₯ Selected Bug Fixes πŸ”₯

  • printf() or sprintf() with the %n format no longer cause a panic on debugging builds, or report an incorrectly cached length value when producing "SVfUTF8" flagged strings.

[GH #17221 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17221>]

  • A memory leak in regular expression patterns has been fixed.

[GH #17218 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17218>]

  • A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.

[GH #17370 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17370>]

  • An assertion failure in the regular expression engine has been fixed.

[GH #17372 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17372>]

  • (?{...}) eval groups in regular expressions no longer unintentionally trigger "EVAL without pos change exceeded limit in regex".

[GH #17490 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17490>]

πŸ‘‘ Acknowledgements πŸ‘‘

Perl 5.30.2 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl 5.30.1 and contains approximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110 files from 15 authors. the way that's a whole group project that actually got submitted on time 😭

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 920 lines of changes to 30 .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 5.30.2:

Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R., Petr PΓ­saΕ™, Renee Baecker, Sawyer X, 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. y'all are the real MVPs 🫢

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. πŸ¦‹

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

πŸ› Reporting Bugs πŸ›

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check 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 open an issue at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. tiny but mighty, that's the vibe. ✨

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. 🚨

πŸ’Œ Give Thanks πŸ’Œ

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. go off, be sweet about it. πŸ’–

πŸ‘€ SEE ALSO πŸ‘€

  • 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.

and that's the whole thing, bestie πŸŽ€ perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17 β€” PERL5302DELTA(1perl), signing off. πŸ’…βœ¨

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