PERL5341DELTA(1perl)

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🦋 PERL5341DELTA(1perl) — the tea on perl v5.34.1

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide and it's literally just the glow-up notes for perl. grab a snack, this is a short one 💖

✨ NAME ✨

perl5341delta — what is new for perl v5.34.1

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This doc spills the differences between the 5.34.0 release and the 5.34.1 release. That's it, that's the whole vibe.

Real talk tho: if you're upgrading from an earlier release like 5.32.0, you gotta read perl5340delta first, because that one covers the glow-up from 5.32.0 to 5.34.0. don't skip it, bestie, i'm begging 🥺

💅 Incompatible Changes 💅

Bestie. There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0, and that's the whole mood. ✨

If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See "Reporting Bugs" below. like... please tell us, we're not psychic 😭

🧚 Modules and Pragmata 🧚

🎀 Updated Modules and Pragmata 🎀

every single one of these got a lil refresh, no cap:

  • 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. like of course they were, we stay testing 🫶

🪟 Platform-Specific Notes 🪟

🌈 Windows

  • Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (containing Visual C++ 14.3) has been added. windows girlies, this one's for you 💜

💀 Selected Bug Fixes 💀

the fixes ate, honestly:

ngl these two were lowkey annoying and now they're fixed so... slay ✨

🫶 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. the way that's so many people working for you for free 😭💖

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. y'all are the real ones and we see you 🥺

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. CPAN besties, ily 💜

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.

heads up: don't be the person who files "it doesn't work" with zero details. be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. we love a minimal repro 🙈

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues.

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. like, seriously, don't post that in public, bestie 🚨

🎀 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. it's giving wholesome, honestly 🥹💖

🌈 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.

okay that's the whole page, bestie, you're officially caught up on perl v5.34.1 💅✨

and fr fr, this one came from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17. that's the whole manual name PERL5341DELTA(1perl) thing too — now go read perl5340delta if you're jumping from 5.32.0, i'm not saying it twice 🦋💖

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