Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
list of each modification.  If you'd like more detailed information,
please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
release of Perl is based.  (Patches can be found on any CPAN
site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
releases.)


			   ---------------
			    CAST AND CREW
			   ---------------

To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today,
here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
current addresses (as of March 1997):

    Gisle Aas           <gisle@aas.no>
    Kenneth Albanowski  <kjahds@kjahds.com>
    Graham Barr         <gbarr@ti.com>
    Spider Boardman     <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
    Tom Christiansen    <tchrist@perl.com>
    Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
    M. J. T. Guy        <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
    Gurusamy Sarathy    <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
    Jarkko Hietaniemi   <jhi@iki.fi>
    Nick Ing-Simmons    <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
    Andreas Koenig      <a.koenig@mind.de>
    Doug MacEachern     <dougm@opengroup.org>
    Paul Marquess       <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
    Hans Mulder         <hansm@euronet.nl>
    Jeff Okamoto        <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
    Ulrich Pfeifer      <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
    Tom Phoenix         <rootbeer@teleport.com>
    Norbert Pueschel    <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
    Dean Roehrich       <roehrich@cray.com>
    Roderick Schertler  <roderick@argon.org>
    Larry W. Virden     <lvirden@cas.org>
    Ilya Zakharevich    <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:

    Charles Bailey      <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
    Andy Dougherty      <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
    Chip Salzenberg     <chip@perl.com>
    Tim Bunce           <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>


----------------
Version 5.004_02        Maintenance release 2 for 5.004
----------------

"When you work you are a flute through whose
 heart the whispering of the hours turns to music."
  -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran


  HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE

    Major memory growth bug fixed.
    Object destruction is more timely and orderly.
    Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including:
    Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++.
    The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun).
    Implicit -p print now checks for write errors.
    DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes).
    Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta).
    'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta).
    Internal integer to string conversions are faster.
    Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp).
    Many other bug fixes and enhancements. 


  ------  BUILD PROCESS  ------

  Title:  "[PATCH] m2t3: Configure: cf_time always in C locale"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, hans@icgned.nl
          (Hans Mulder)
 Msg-ID:  <9706271816.AA10551@ icgned.icgned.nl >
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Don't use undef value in Config::myconfig"
   From:  "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@sissy.in-berlin.de>, Chip Salzenberg
          <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199706271525.RAA13517@sissy.in-berlin.de>
  Files:  configpm

  Title:  "make Configure recognize powerux hint (perl5.004_01)"
   From:  tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
 Msg-ID:  <9707301938.AA08352@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "[PATCH]: HP-UX 10 w/o transition links"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199706181851.AA093329906@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>,
          <199706231650.AA070364627@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "INSTALL updates for GNU ld and __inet_* errors"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
  Files:  INSTALL

  ------  CORE LANGUAGE  ------

  Title:  "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ...""
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707191651.MAA04897@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod perl.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Band-aid fix for local([@%]$x)"
   From:  Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
 Msg-ID:  <m0wsb7J-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod op.c pp_hot.c t/op/local.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Bug in Regular Expressions when using colon as
          delimiter"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0wtbhv-0005Mm-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Can't pack literals as pointers"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708012250.SAA20278@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/pack.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Do not constant-fold ops that depend on locale if C<use
          locale>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com>
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707211753.NAA14940@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  t/comp/term.t toke.c

  Title:  "Fix memory leak on eval 'sub {}'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "stringify looses integerness"
   From:  Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
 Msg-ID:  <hbu4l96z2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707011421.KAA15836@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Calling Perl from within C from within Perl"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  t/op/universal.t universal.c

  Title:  "Avoid core dump on some paren'd regexp matches", "One-liner regex
          causes SEGV on 5.003 under HP-UX and Linux"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199706261236.NAA03472@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199707061144.MAA04443@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
  Files:  regexec.c t/op/re_tests

  Title:  "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start"
   From:  "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg
          <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.970625111744.19300A-100000@gateway>
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix C<qq #hi#>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle"
   From:  Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
 Msg-ID:  <hyb80drrz.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
  Files:  gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm

  Title:  "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl>
  Files:  malloc.c

  Title:  "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]"
   From:  Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
 Msg-ID:  <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
          <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
 Msg-ID:  <m33erfv5hx.fsf@chany-p100.emwp.com>
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Fix C<print $foo x 2> parsing"
   From:  "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>, Chip
          Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
 Msg-ID:  <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com>
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, gen@atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp
 Msg-ID:  <199706091132.UAA00895@wampa.atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp>
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Don't use atol() for unsigned values", "signedness problem in
          pack("N", "value");"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Roger Espel Llima
          <espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr>
 Msg-ID:  <19970531200007.40218@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Don't warn about "${foo}" in string, even if &foo exists"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v0311070aafea3fa83061@[194.51.248.75]>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Fix double form() in XS version check"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  XSUB.h

  Title:  "Constant-fold sprintf()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
  Files:  opcode.pl

  Title:  "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com>
  Files:  XSUB.h

  Title:  "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.970731131529.3740A-100000@newton.phys>
  Files:  INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h

  Title:  "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag"
   From:  Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
 Msg-ID:  <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com>
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Slightly safer signals"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  mg.c perl.c

  Title:  "Time::Local patch (plus perl.c and filehand.t)"
   From:  ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
  Files:  lib/Time/Local.pm perl.c t/lib/filehand.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Weirdness in sv_peek()"
   From:  Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
 Msg-ID:  <m0wsEMU-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>,
          <m0wsf7Y-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail"
   From:  Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
 Msg-ID:  <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com>
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  av.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707262127.RAA12883@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Faster int to string conversion", "[PATCH} Re: memory leak in buffer
          safety code"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
          <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199707140912.KAA09935@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199707142050.QAA20976@rio.atlantic.net>,
          <199707182035.VAA20990@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <9707151040.AA02883@toad.ig.co.uk>
  Files:  global.sym sv.c

  Title:  "object never destructs"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707131955.PAA29655@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  scope.c t/op/ref.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] -S flag fixes for DOSISH platforms", "[RESEND] [PATCH] -S
          flag fixes for DOSISH platforms"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250043.UAA02385@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199707301828.OAA19508@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod perl.c

  Title:  "Perldb internal flag rehaul"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c
          pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: q and escaping paired delimiters"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Kenneth Albanowski
          <kjahds@kjahds.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <Pine.LNX.3.93.970727172201.350K-100000@kjahds.com>,
          <Pine.LNX.3.93.970728013540.350U-100000@kjahds.com>
  Files:  t/base/lex.t toke.c

  Title:  "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  malloc.c perl.c

  Title:  "semctl broken under Linux"
   From:  Andreas Schwab <schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Andreas
          Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Graham
          Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <33C38291.2D9302DA@ti.com>,
          <9707040912.AA03470@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
          <9707041538.AA08946@toad.ig.co.uk>,
          <9707070924.AA11774@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
          <9707090933.AA19012@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
  Files:  doio.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] m2t2: problem in NetBSD 1.2D with sfio"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
  Files:  perl.h

  Title:  "fix substr fix (tests 27 etc)", "perl5.004_02 trial 1 available
          (with substr bug and still some"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Hugo van der Sanden
          <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>,
          <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <E0wtruH-0002JM-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't
          intersect original at all"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>,
          <E0wm1JG-0000UY-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/substr.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] work around compiler bug on CX/UX (perl5.004_01)"
   From:  tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
 Msg-ID:  <9707301934.AA18594@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
  Files:  hints/cxux.sh pp.c

  ------  DOCUMENTATION  ------

  Title:  "Duplicates in perlguts.pod"
   From:  hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder)
 Msg-ID:  <9707082346.AA13231@ icgned.icgned.nl >
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "Better "Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC" error documentation"
   From:  ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
 Msg-ID:  <1997Jun24.195847.2091744@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "new perlembed.pod:match.c"
   From:  Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
 Msg-ID:  <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org>
  Files:  pod/perlembed.pod

  Title:  "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlxstut.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2"
   From:  Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
 Msg-ID:  <m0wr6P8-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0welEn-0002vT-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0wfRJU-0006Aw-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707152223.SAA00776@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "[BUG:47:LOG] Dropped "and" in pod2man"
   From:  hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder)
 Msg-ID:  <9707082355.AA13254@ icgned.icgned.nl >
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

  Title:  "[BUG] perlembed.pod:power.c example"
   From:  Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
 Msg-ID:  <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org>
  Files:  pod/perlembed.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl>
  Files:  pod/perlapio.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug"
   From:  Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com>
  Files:  pod/perldebug.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707212350.TAA18496@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "patch to 5.004_01 perltrap.pod"
   From:  jmm@revenge.elegant.com (John Macdonald)
 Msg-ID:  <9706231525.AA22790@revenge.elegant.com>
  Files:  pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "perl4 to perl5.004 converion with debugger problem"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0wdKJY-00010w-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "done3/perlbook.pod"
   From:  Randal Schwartz <merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com>
  Files:  pod/perlbook.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Document use of - in a regex char class."
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03102804afd578bcef2c@[194.51.248.88]>
  Files:  pod/perlre.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199706240048.CAA10515@xs2.xs4all.nl>,
          <9706241612.AA09119@toad.ig.co.uk>
  Files:  pod/splitpod

  ------  LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS  ------

  Title:  "Carp::cluck() and -MCarp=verbose"
   From:  Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk, epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko)
 Msg-ID:  <199708060607.AAA16681@den-mdev1.tci.com>,
          <199708062105.PAA09878@den-mdev1.tci.com>
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "Warning from calls using "use Shell""
   From:  Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@abel.math.harvard.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.970806173903.7320H-100000@abel>
  Files:  lib/Shell.pm

  Title:  "confessing a carp"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
          <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Nick Ing-Simmons
          <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199708052155.WAA25393@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199708060721.IAA30894@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199708061533.LAA01313@rio.atlantic.net>,
          <33E79BE2.4E6F@ni-s.u-net.com>,
          <33E8E3C5.62C@ni-s.u-net.com>,
          <9708051619.AA13764@toad.ig.co.uk>
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "[BUG:PATCH] dumpvar.pl parses some references incorrectly"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0wwAjQ-0004l6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  lib/dumpvar.pl

  Title:  "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  lib/I18N/Collate.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707210006.UAA06165@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

  Title:  "m2t2 broke CPAN.pm :-("
   From:  a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] CPAN.pm on OS/2"
   From:  "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de>, Ilya Zakharevich
          <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707180415.AAA03180@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
          <199707181407.QAA12920@anna.in-berlin.de>
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm

  Title:  "Docs of IO::Handle [PATCH]"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707222307.TAA08380@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Exporter errors give wrong location"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0wdJra-0000n8-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  lib/Exporter.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] Exporter new export_to_level method"
   From:  epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko)
  Files:  lib/Exporter.pm

  Title:  "DB_File produces spurious output when trapping __DIE__"
   From:  pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
 Msg-ID:  <9706302125.AA28254@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm

  Title:  "Remove 'use UNIVERSAL;', switch to UNIVERSAL::isa()"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Files:  lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm

  Title:  "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken"
   From:  Mathias Koerber <mathias@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg>
 Msg-ID:  <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg>
  Files:  lib/Time/Local.pm

  Title:  "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}"
   From:  Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu>
  Files:  lib/Sys/Hostname.pm

  Title:  "xsubpp patch"
   From:  John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707010221.CAA01234@remote133>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

  Title:  "DB_File 1.15 patch"
   From:  pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
 Msg-ID:  <9707192117.AA01973@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap
          t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t

  Title:  "Problems with setvbuf"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  ext/IO/IO.xs

  Title:  "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707252101.RAA11846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl lib/Term/ReadLine.pm

  Title:  "IO::File and DB_File pollutes namespace with Fcntl constants"
   From:  Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
 Msg-ID:  <h205qyijy.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

  Title:  "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706182152.RAA20273@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm

  Title:  "Net::hostent documentation error"
   From:  gnat@frii.com
 Msg-ID:  <199707082222.QAA24728@elara.frii.com>
  Files:  lib/Net/hostent.pm

  Title:  "PATCH: make DBM*_File modules sub-classable"
   From:  pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
 Msg-ID:  <9707121854.AA19472@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
  Files:  ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/typemap
          ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/typemap
          t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t

  Title:  "Sys::Syslog patch to allow unix domain sockets"
   From:  Sean Robinson <robinson_s@sc.maricopa.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu>
  Files:  lib/Sys/Syslog.pm

  Title:  "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C<UNIVERSAL::isa()> instead",
          "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>,
          Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Gurusamy Sarathy
          <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
          <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199706271701.NAA25664@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199706271904.UAA00120@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
          <199706272054.QAA28913@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199706301554.LAA03763@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <33B22248.7D7C1985@ti.com>,
          <E0wf5TN-0006ps-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0wguTR-0005bs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0wiyUG-00073j-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <hiuyv6q9k.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
  Files:  lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm
          t/op/universal.t universal.c

  Title:  "[MM] Small patch to MakeMaker, new release"
   From:  "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
 Msg-ID:  <199706281603.SAA10869@anna.in-berlin.de>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

  Title:  "ExtUtils-Embed upgrade"
   From:  Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] icmp tweak for IO::Socket"
   From:  Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com
 Msg-ID:  <199707041240.NAA21484@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm

  Title:  "Allow concurrent mkdir in File::Path::mkpath"
   From:  schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy)
 Msg-ID:  <199707300943.LAA21574@kant.imb-jena.de>
  Files:  lib/File/Path.pm

  Title:  "CPAN.pm, $VERSION and nested (bundled) modules."
   From:  a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] perl debugger, win32, and emacs"
   From:  Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org>
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl>
  Files:  lib/Pod/Html.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1"
   From:  Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
 Msg-ID:  <3.0.2.32.19970718095755.00875ba0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

  Title:  "MM_Unix.pm nits for Win32 DMAKE"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708032051.QAA14248@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

  Title:  "Sys::Hostname -w unclean in trial 2"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708032055.QAA14278@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/Sys/Hostname.pm

  Title:  "(3) File::Find::find()/finddepth() bugs with toplevel paths"
   From:  "Conrad E. Kimball" <cek@tblv021.ca.boeing.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com>
  Files:  lib/File/Find.pm

  ------  OTHER CHANGES  ------

  Title:  "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>,
          ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
 Msg-ID:  <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
          <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801134400.4393F-100000@newton.phys>
  Files:  
  Files:  

  ------  PORTABILITY - WIN32  ------

  Title:  "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707261518.LAA24346@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199707301833.OAA19570@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.c

  Title:  "Minor fix for pl2bat.bat", "[PATCH] Re: Minor fix for pl2bat.bat"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Warren Jones
          <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <97Jun24.115804pdt.35752-2@gateway.fluke.com>
  Files:  win32/bin/pl2bat.bat

  Title:  "WIN32 Build - pod2xxx.bat Missing?", "[PATCH] Re: WIN32 Build -
          pod2xxx.bat Missing?"
   From:  Chris Williams <chrisw@netinfo.com.au>, Gurusamy Sarathy
          <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707011423.KAA15855@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <33B8B962.D96FA1F5@netinfo.com.au>
  Files:  win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk

  Title:  "[PATCH] Win32 sitelib intuition from DLL location"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706231647.MAA23260@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.h win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] binary coexistence on win32", "[RESEND] [PATCH] binary
          coexistence on win32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250109.VAA02666@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199707301829.OAA19516@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h
          win32/win32iop.h win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c
          win32/win32io.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] docs for win32 utilities"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250045.UAA02510@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat

  Title:  "[PATCH] exec() fixed on win32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706241525.LAA06554@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c
          win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl
          win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] getenv() after my_setenv() gets old entry on Win32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706231700.NAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.h win32/win32.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] getservby*() calls fail on Windows NT"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32sck.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
          <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199707262307.TAA28410@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199707270832.JAA19399@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod README.win32 win32/Makefile win32/config.bc
          win32/config.vc win32/makefile.mk

  Title:  "[PATCH] trial2: some batch files won't run"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708040226.WAA17301@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32 docs and runperl.bat"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707070446.AAA29560@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  MANIFEST README.win32 win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32 extras and embedding"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250232.WAA03421@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199707301831.OAA19528@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  dosish.h win32/win32.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config_H.bc
          win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32 tweaks"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707042150.RAA01065@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.h win32/win32.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32_stat() fixes (2nd try)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708040137.VAA16810@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  t/op/stat.t win32/win32iop.h win32/win32.c

  ------  PORTABILITY - OTHER  ------

  Title:  "Additional OS/2 patches"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Ilya Zakharevich
          <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
          <199708021424.KAA28561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199708042108.RAA27671@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  README.os2 os2/Changes perl.c

  Title:  "Additional patch is needed for os2/diff.configure"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708020745.DAA19483@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  os2/diff.configure

  Title:  "Assorted OS/2 fixes"
   From:  ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
 Msg-ID:  <1997Jun16.163234.2091727@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
  Files:  hints/os2.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h README.os2 os2/Changes
          os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c util.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Changes for VMS 7.1 support"
   From:  Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>, Dan Sugalski
          <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
 Msg-ID:  <01ILDXUH0J1W00026U@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
          <3.0.2.32.19970718095935.0087a2d0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  vms/sockadapt.h vms/config.vms vms/sockadapt.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Easier TCP stack selection for VMS"
   From:  Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
 Msg-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  vms/descrip.mms

  Title:  "Minor VMS patches"
   From:  Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
 Msg-ID:  <01ILCUO6XXTE000WFK@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/vmsish.h vms/descrip.mms vms/test.com
          vms/vms.c vms/ext/filespec.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Two un-disabled tests for VMS"
   From:  Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
 Msg-ID:  <3.0.2.32.19970718095842.00879220@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  vms/test.com

  Title:  "fixes for hints/svr4 for UnixWare >= 2.1.1"
   From:  John Hughes <john@titanic.atlantech.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199707021230.OAA24230@titanic.AtlanTech.COM>
  Files:  hints/svr4.sh

  Title:  "make depend loop fix and minor OS/2 improvements to build process"
   From:  ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
  Files:  Makefile.SH hints/os2.sh os2/Makefile.SHs

  ------  TESTS  ------

  Title:  "Add xor tests to test suite"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
  Files:  t/comp/cmdopt.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  t/op/magic.t

  Title:  "Fix up problems with *DBM tests"
   From:  Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
  Files:  t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t

  ------  UTILITIES  ------

  Title:  "[PATCH] m2t3: utils/perlbug.PL: -ok report is not a bug"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "OK: perl <some_version> on <some_system> (corrected)", "enhancements
          to perlbug -ok"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
 Msg-ID:  <E0wukVt-0006Da-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <E0wvMQl-00055y-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
          <m0wv81x-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
  Files:  utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "perlbug -ok [PATCH]"
   From:  "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@free.click-n-call.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "perlbug broken"
   From:  Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
 Msg-ID:  <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths"
   From:  Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
 Msg-ID:  <97Jun17.184420pdt.35728-1@gateway.fluke.com>,
          <97Jun18.165618pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com>
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "[PATCH] perldoc under OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings"
   From:  wdconsta <wdconsta@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.970708143446.23808A-100000@florence.teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  Files:  utils/h2ph.PL



----------------
Version 5.004_01        Maintenance release 1 for 5.004
----------------

"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty"
  -- Anne Herbert

  HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE

          (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed. 
          Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong. 
          Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed. 
          Documentation updates. 
          Many other bug fixes and enhancements. 

  CORE LANGUAGE

  Title:  "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
  Files:  pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t

  Title:  "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a"
   From:  Andreas Karrer <karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>, Chip Salzenberg
          <chip@atlantic.net>
 Msg-ID:  <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>,
          <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net>
  Files:  regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt"
   From:  Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed."
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>,
          pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
 Msg-ID:  <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>,
          <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
  Files:  proto.h mg.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)",
          "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
 Msg-ID:  <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl>
  Files:  embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t

  Title:  "Patch to show @INC when require dies"
   From:  avera@hal.com (Jim Avera)
 Msg-ID:  <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com>
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e"
   From:  hansm@euro.net
  Files:  op.c t/op/subst.t

  DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update"
   From:  Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
  Files:  pod/perlembed.pod

  Title:  "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if
          used as lvalue."
   From:  John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu
          (Ilya Zakharevich)
 Msg-ID:  <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks
          nroff"
   From:  Davin Milun <milun@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>,
          <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

  Title:  "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted"
   From:  chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom
          (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste)
 Msg-ID:  <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>,
          <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>,
          <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>,
          <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>,
          <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com>
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

  Title:  "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME""
   From:  whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde)
 Msg-ID:  <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com>
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

  Title:  "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand"
   From:  "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <m0wSMiC-000C9xC@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)"
   From:  Chris Wick <cwick@lmc.com>
  Files:  pod/perllol.pod

  Title:  "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently"
   From:  jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar)
 Msg-ID:  <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com>
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "[PATCH] Documentation bugs"
   From:  Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
  Files:  pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod
          pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod

  Title:  "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable
          xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid"
   From:  "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, "Paul D. Smith"
          <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy
          <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
          Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>, avera@hal.com (Jim
          Avera), lvirden@cas.org
 Msg-ID:  <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>,
          <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>,
          <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
          <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>,
          <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>,
          <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast>
  Files:  INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml

  Title:  "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file"
   From:  Larry Parmelee <parmelee@CS.Cornell.EDU>
  Files:  pod/checkpods.PL

  Title:  "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed."
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod

  LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL

  Title:  "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!"
   From:  Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
  Files:  lib/AutoLoader.pm

  Title:  "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)"
   From:  Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
  Files:  lib/AutoSplit.pm

  Title:  "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour
          with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>,
          alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz)
 Msg-ID:  <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu>
  Files:  lib/Sys/Syslog.pm

  Title:  "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp"
   From:  "Richard L. Maus, Jr." <rmaus@monmouth.com>
 Msg-ID:  <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com>
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS"
   From:  Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
 Msg-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  lib/Test/Harness.pm

  Title:  "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
  Files:  ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs

  Title:  "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  lib/chat2.pl

  BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "make test && ... doesn't work"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  Makefile.SH

  Title:  "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970529142739.662D-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "improved gnuwin32 Configure support"
   From:  Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com>
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "installhtml problems finding splitpod"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org
  Files:  installhtml INSTALL

  Title:  "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
  Files:  installman

  Title:  "oddity in Configure"
   From:  Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX"
   From:  Peter van Heusden <pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.93.970519142625.22442B-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>,
          <Pine.A32.3.93.970519163700.25188A-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>
  Files:  Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym

  Title:  "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x"
   From:  Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=)
          <matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp>
 Msg-ID:  <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp>
  Files:  Configure hints/newsos4.sh

  PORTABILITY

  Title:  "win32: additional default libraries"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc

  Title:  "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS"
   From:  pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/Term/ReadLine.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm

  Title:  "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32"
   From:  jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar)
 Msg-ID:  <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

  Title:  "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths"
   From:  Warren Jones <wjones@TC.FLUKE.COM>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm

  Title:  "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
  Files:  doio.c

  Title:  "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()"
   From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>, Jordan
          Mendelson <jordy@snappy.wserv.com>
  Files:  doio.c

  Title:  "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS"
   From:  Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk
 Msg-ID:  <XFMail.970522181042.Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP"
   From:  Henrik Tougaard <ht.000@foa.dk>
  Files:  mg.c t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints"
   From:  Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com>
  Files:  hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh

  Title:  "win32: user defined shell"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c

  Title:  "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
 Msg-ID:  <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org>
  Files:  pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall
          vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm

  Title:  "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output"
   From:  Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  vms/gen_shrfls.pl

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL
          win32/makefile.mk

  Title:  "[PATCH] README.win32 nits"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  README.win32

  Title:  "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  README.win32

  Title:  "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
  Files:  hints/svr4.sh

  Title:  "porting.help"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel

  Title:  "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)",
          "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h
          opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
          ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
          lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h
          win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c
          mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c
          win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc
          win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl
          win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c
          win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c
          win32/win32sck.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c
          t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c
          win32/win32io.c

  Title:  "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc
          win32/makefile.mk

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
  Files:  win32/win32.c

  Title:  "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
  Files:  t/op/magic.t

  TESTS

  Title:  "Tests depend on locale"
   From:  "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
          <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>,
          <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t

  Title:  "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)"
   From:  "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>
 Msg-ID:  <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>
  Files:  t/op/groups.t

  Title:  "More simple regexp tests and test docs"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl>
  Files:  t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t

  Title:  "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
  Files:  t/op/split.t

  UTILITIES

  Title:  "bad test of -A flag in h2xs"
   From:  "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jsh@woodcock.boulder.qms.com>
  Files:  utils/h2xs.PL

  Title:  "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
  Files:  utils/Makefile

  Title:  "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug
          w.r.t. environment variables"
   From:  "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
          <jhi@iki.fi>
 Msg-ID:  <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>,
          <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi>
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
  Files:  utils/h2xs.PL


-------------
Version 5.004
-------------

"Hey, Rocky!  Watch me pull a release out of my hat!"
"Aww, that trick never works..."

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make C<m//g> reset pos on failure; make C<m//gc> not reset"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod
          pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c
          t/op/pat.t toke.c

  Title:  "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t
          taint.c

  Title:  "Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t
          taint.c

  Title:  "Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/irix_6.sh

  Title:  "Fix default HP-UX installation path"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Tue, 13 May 1997 15:28:04 -0700
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

  Title:  "VMS update, including socket support (four patches)"
   From:  Jonathan Hudson <Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>,
          Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>,
          Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
  Files:  vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c
          vms/vmsish.h

  Title:  "Win32 update (three patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H
          win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl
          win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h
          win32/win32iop.h

  Title:  "Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH"
   From:  Danny Sadinoff <sadinoff@olf.com>
 Msg-ID:  <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com>
   Date:  Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400
  Files:  perl.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "In C<eval &func>, always call &func in scalar context"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Fix recursive substitution"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg; test from Tim Bunce
  Files:  cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c t/op/subst.t

  Title:  "Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF"
   From:  Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
 Msg-ID:  <199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net>
   Date:  Mon, 12 May 1997 07:47:13 -0400
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix typo"
   From:  Mark K Trettin <mkt@lucent.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com>
   Date:  Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500
  Files:  pp_sys.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Don't use 'unset' in Configure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Protect against having no such command as 'cc'"
   From:  Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "minor wording enhancement for Configure"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  Configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36"
   From:  Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
  Files:  eg/cgi/frameset.cgi eg/cgi/javascript.cgi lib/CGI.pm

  Title:  "In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

  Title:  "Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/IO.xs t/lib/io_xs.t

 TESTS

  Title:  "Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970510190846.23340K-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Sat, 10 May 1997 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
  Files:  t/op/rand.t

  Title:  "Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1"
   From:  Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com>
   Date:  Thu, 15 May 1997 11:35:41 -0600
  Files:  t/op/sleep.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "h2xs and @EXPORT_OK"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 9 May 1997 16:48:20 -0700
  Files:  utils/h2xs.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Tweaks for perldelta"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
 Msg-ID:  <199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl>
   Date:  Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Fix example of use of lexicals with formats"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Explain that destruction order is not defined"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 15 May 1997 02:00:23 -0400
  Files:  pod/perltoot.pod

  Title:  "Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}"
   From:  neilb@cre.canon.co.uk (Neil Bowers)
 Msg-ID:  <199705121227.NAA29718@tardis.cre.canon.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 12 May 1997 13:27:43 +0100
  Files:  pod/perldata.pod

  Title:  "More detailed IO::Socket documentation"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199705141456.IAA19061@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Wed, 14 May 1997 08:56:30 -0600
  Files:  pod/perlipc.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_99a
-----------------

Herein we find the fruits of the gamma.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c

  Title:  "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "(NeXT|Open)Step update"
   From:  Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com>
 Msg-ID:  <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com>
   Date:  Wed,  7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh

  Title:  "NetBSD hint update"
   From:  Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
 Msg-ID:  <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au>
   Date:  Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST)
  Files:  hints/netbsd.sh

  Title:  "Irix hint update"
   From:  Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
 Msg-ID:  <yd83es0fp57.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
   Date:  06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700
  Files:  hints/irix_6.sh

  Title:  "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs"
   From:  Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com>
   Date:  Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs

  Title:  "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod
          win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c
          win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h

  Title:  "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99"
   From:  Gary Clark <GaryC@mail.jeld-wen.com>
 Msg-ID:  <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com>
   Date:  Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700
  Files:  win32/makedef.pl

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400
  Files:  op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "AFS patches"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>
  Files:  Configure installperl

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text"
   From:  Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <m3afm5g6ar.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
   Date:  08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Three bugs in pod2html"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
 Msg-ID:  <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl>
   Date:  Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200
  Files:  lib/Pod/Html.pm

  Title:  "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp"
   From:  Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com>
   Date:  Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

  Title:  "Newer CPerl mode"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  emacs/cperl-mode.el

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Updates to perldelta"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "More explicit Solaris instructions"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970508171206.438A-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
   Date:  Thu, 08 May 1997 17:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  INSTALL hints/solaris_2.sh

  Title:  "Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "perlfaq9, hostname"
   From:  John D Groenveld <groenvel@cse.psu.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT
  Files:  pod/perlfaq9.pod

  Title:  "Debugger docs patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  pod/perldebug.pod

  Title:  "Document that C<m?x?> is just like C<?x?>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "Refresh description of sprintf()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Mention the Regular Expressions book"
   From:  Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com>
   Date:  Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod

  Title:  "OS/2 doc patch for _99"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  README.os2


----------------
Version 5.003_99
----------------

"Oops."  Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

   (no changes)

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "NeXT hints update"
   From:  hansm@euronet.nl
 Msg-ID:  <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl>
   Date:  Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200
  Files:  Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh

  Title:  "Support shared libperl on AIX"
   From:  Eric Bartley <bartley@icd.cc.purdue.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500
  Files:  Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  util.c

  Title:  "Forget prototype of subroutine after C<undef &subr>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Fix sysread() on tied handle"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  os2/os2.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Add new globals to perl.exp"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl_exp.SH

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh DB_File to 1.14"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST)
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
          t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t

 TESTS

  Title:  "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03102801af8e160d3879@[194.51.248.68]>
   Date:  Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200
  Files:  t/io/pipe.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "typo fixes to installhtml"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
 Msg-ID:  <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org>
   Date:  Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400
  Files:  installhtml

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "Fix typo in perldelta"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_98
----------------

Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma).

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod
          pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms

 CORE PORTABILITY

   (no changes)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  opcode.pl

  Title:  "Reset errno after failed piped close"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400
  Files:  lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod
          t/io/pipe.t util.c

  Title:  "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400
  Files:  perlio.c

 BUILD PROCESS

   (no changes)

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

   (no changes)

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlmodlib.pod

  Title:  "Add new diagnostics to perldelta"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97j
-----------------

This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

   (no changes)

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.h

  Title:  "NetBSD hint update"
   From:  matthew green <mrg@splode.eterna.com.au>
 Msg-ID:  <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000
  Files:  hints/netbsd.sh

  Title:  "HP-UX hint update"
   From:  Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com>
   Date:  Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

  Title:  "Win32 update (three patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c

  Title:  "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  XSUB.h

  Title:  "Eliminate Alpha warnings"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perlsdio.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs

  Title:  "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  taint.c

 BUILD PROCESS

   (no changes)

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35"
   From:  Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
  Files:  lib/CGI.pm

  Title:  "Refresh DB_File to 1.13"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST)
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

  Title:  "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical"
   From:  Jesse Glick <jesse@ginger> and Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/SelfLoader.pm

 TESTS

   (no changes)

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Split perlmod"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com>
   Date:  Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
          pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod
          pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod
          pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall

  Title:  "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Doc fix for close of pipe handle"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97i
-----------------

This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow!  (And the
crowd goes wild.  (Yeah.))  Showstoppers only between here and _98.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

   (no changes)

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Provide memset() if it's missing"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c

  Title:  "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  proto.h

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes"
   From:  Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip
  Files:  gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c

  Title:  "Enforce order of sprintf() elements"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c

  Title:  "Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  util.c

  Title:  "Win32: Guard against long function names"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  win32/win32sck.c

  Title:  "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  perl.c util.c

  Title:  "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "When copying a format line, take only its string value"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Undo private patch"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

  Title:  "Fix LEAKTEST numbers"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c
          win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  Configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Always NUL-terminate opsets"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs

  Title:  "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/Socket/Socket.xs

  Title:  "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/File/Path.pm

  Title:  "Math::{Complex,Trig} update"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall
          t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Fix buffer overflow in a2p"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  x2p/a2py.c

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)"
   From:  Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com>
   Date:  Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT)
  Files:  pod/perlfaq*.pod

  Title:  "Document new {,s}printf() behavior"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97h
-----------------

This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow;
in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs.  (!!)  This patch
also has a few other fixes.  With these changes in place, I can sleep
at night.  (Because I've stopped hacking.  :-))

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support PRINTF for tied handles"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Win32 update (two patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32
          win32/makedef.pl

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
          ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
          ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
          global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h
          pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h
          regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c

  Title:  "Problems with glob"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Fix scalar leak in closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c scope.c

  Title:  "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Outermost scope is void, not scalar"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  Configure hints/linux.sh

  Title:  "There is no standard answer to 'Use suidperl?'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/bsdos.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh
          hints/machten_2.sh

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Math::Complex update"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t

  Title:  "Croak on C<use autouse> without module name"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/autouse.pm

  Title:  "Silence warnings on simple C<use ops>"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzybafum6k.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400
  Files:  ext/Opcode/ops.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200
  Files:  t/pragma/constant.t

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)"
   From:  Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com>
   Date:  Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT)
  Files:  pod/perlfaq*.pod

  Title:  "Two doublewords less"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97g
-----------------

This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows.  Perl has
not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
          ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl
          pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
          proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c

  Title:  "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c t/op/pack.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Irix update"
   From:  Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
 Msg-ID:  <yd8d8rsi0ln.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
   Date:  18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700
  Files:  MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh

  Title:  "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100
  Files:  win32/Makefile

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c

  Title:  "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix unnecessary re-linking"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

  Title:  "Fix tcsh hack in Configure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH"
   From:  "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
 Msg-ID:  <rjray-9703180132.AA00374040@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
   Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600
  Files:  Makefile.SH

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Patch to Getopt::Long"
   From:  Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
 Msg-ID:  <m0wIKCO-00081IC@phoenix.squirrel.nl>
   Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm

  Title:  "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Make h2ph generate constant subs"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pz2088w5ot.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400
  Files:  utils/h2ph.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Document {,un}pack changes"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97f
-----------------

This is it before _98.  No more last-minute features.  Really, I mean
it this time.  No kidding.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "New operator systell()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl
          pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
          t/op/sysio.t toke.c

  Title:  "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "VMS update"
   From:  Charles Bailey
  Files:  lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms
          vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl

  Title:  "Win32 update (three patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
          lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl
          win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix error messages on method lookup failure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix use of var before init in util.c"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400
  Files:  util.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh"
   From:  Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
  Files:  Configure hints/linux.sh

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
          ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs

  Title:  "CGI.pm broke again"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200
  Files:  lib/CGI.pm

  Title:  "Revise quotewords()"
   From:  Shishir Gundavaram <shishir@ruby.ora.com>
  Files:  lib/Text/ParseWords.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
  Files:  INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod

  Title:  "Document size restrictions for packed integers"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97e
-----------------

Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since
I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "New operator: sysseek()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym
          keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
          pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c

  Title:  "Allow recursive substitution again"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++"
   From:  Steven Parkes <parkes@sierravista.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com>
   Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700
  Files:  perl.h

  Title:  "Win32 update (four patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL
          ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
          ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c
          utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST
          win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL
          win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c
          win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "New API function: perl_eval_pv()"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400
  Files:  perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod
          pod/perlguts.pod proto.h

  Title:  "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c regexec.c

  Title:  "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  perlio.c

  Title:  "Fix for environment leak"
   From:  skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege)
 Msg-ID:  <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
   Date:  Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200
  Files:  util.c

  Title:  "Fix comments in seed()"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  pp.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

  Title:  "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
  Files:  Configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CGI to 2.34"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm
          lib/CGI/Apache.pm

  Title:  "Debugger update"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "diagnostics: $/ gotcha"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200
  Files:  lib/diagnostics.pm

  Title:  "Update File::Path"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200
  Files:  lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t

  Title:  "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600
  Files:  lib/User/pwent.pm

  Title:  "Sys::Syslog: hyphens in hostnames"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704151421.RAA19693@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:21:53 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  lib/Sys/Syslog.pm

  Title:  "Clean up format of dlopen() debug info"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs

 TESTS

   (no changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "xsubpp incorrectly handles 'class::newthing()'"
   From:  "John Q. Linux" <jql@jql.accessone.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704122201.PAA01780@jql.accessone.com>
   Date:  Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:01:33 -0700
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Fix description of /\G/g"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "Mention '...' operator in precedence table"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97d
-----------------

Any minute now... second public beta... no, really...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix for incorrect overloaded assignment"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199704112225.SAA03482@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  gv.c

  Title:  "Fix C< $x=''; pos($x)=0; $x=~/\G$/ >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix label on C<for(;;)> statement"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.y

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "update to 5.003_97b/hint/irix_6_2.sh"
   From:  Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
 Msg-ID:  <yd8hghdjbk0.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
   Date:  11 Apr 1997 18:05:03 -0700
  Files:  hints/irix_6_2.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Before 'BEGIN not safe', explain why"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "New error msg for low-key failure of C<require>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/strict-subs
          t/pragma/strict-vars

  Title:  "Put "dXSUB_SYS" last in declarations"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  win32/perllib.c

  Title:  "Minor type cleanup"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  proto.h toke.c

 BUILD PROCESS

   (no changes)

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "win32: perl5db patch"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704102142.RAA27396@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:13 -0400
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Enhancements to debugger, Term::ReadLine, Term::Cap"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199704101948.PAA01841@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "MM_Unix patch for use under CVS"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
 Msg-ID:  <yfmd8s1vhpn.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
   Date:  11 Apr 1997 14:59:00 +0200
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

  Title:  "Complex update (five patches)"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t

  Title:  "Fix undef warning in Math::BigInt"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Math/BigInt.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.pod x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "typo in lib/diagnostics.pm"
   From:  barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
 Msg-ID:  <199704111800.OAA27297@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
   Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:54 -0400
  Files:  lib/diagnostics.pm

  Title:  "Use B<> for options in Class::Struct pod"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <334D2E7B.67F0@iii.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:16:27 +0100
  Files:  lib/Class/Struct.pm

  Title:  "Explain //g and \G issues"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704122048.QAA25060@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0400
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod

  Title:  "more (err, less) doubled words"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704111931.WAA24460@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:31:25 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm lib/CGI.pm lib/Exporter.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
          lib/vars.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod
          pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod
          pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlipc.pod

  Title:  "Freudian slip error in perlsub.pod"
   From:  barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
 Msg-ID:  <199704111755.NAA27200@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
   Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:55:07 -0400
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Little patch for perl5.003_97c/pod/perlpod.pod"
   From:  rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall)
 Msg-ID:  <199704112048.WAA08733@en1.engelschall.com>
   Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:48:37 +0200
  Files:  pod/perlpod.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97c
-----------------

That second public beta will be Real Soon Now...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Refine setgroups() behavior of C<$)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "Forbid -[Mm] on #! line"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix dynamic loading (and argv[0]) under AmigaOS"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724842@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 1997 22:01:45 +0200
  Files:  hints/amigaos.sh

  Title:  "Special mkdir() for VMS"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IHGOXN6MZM0004K3@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:33:56 -0400 (EDT)
  Files:  dosish.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/File/Path.pm os2/os2ish.h
          plan9/plan9ish.h pp_sys.c unixish.h vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix assignment from magic SV that becomes a glob"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix syntax error in Configure comment(!)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "For Solaris, if -DDEBUGGING, default to '-KPIC', not '-Kpic'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Fix usage of dXSUB_SYS, esp. in ExtUtils::Miniperl"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  dosish.h minimod.pl os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h vms/vmsish.h

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Replace Class::Template with improved Class::Struct"
   From:  Jim Miner <jfm@winternet.com>
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/Class/Template.pm
          lib/File/stat.pm lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm
          lib/Net/protoent.pm lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm
          lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm
          lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod
          pod/perlmod.pod pod/perltoot.pod

  Title:  "MakeMaker pathname patch"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199704091908.UAA00877@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:08:23 +0100
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

  Title:  "Fix configuration of new socket"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm

  Title:  "Improve IO::Handle docs; don't export _open_mode_string"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Complex.pm: 0**0 sanity"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199704091804.VAA13930@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:04:23 +0300 (EET DST)
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm

  Title:  "Fix typos in Math::Trig"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/Math/Trig.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Accommodate CodeBuilder variant of Machten 4.0.3"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03020902af704d320f27@[194.51.248.88]>
   Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:15:15 +0200
  Files:  t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "IO::Socket doc fix"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <28383.860527843@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:30:43 -0400
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm


-----------------
Version 5.003_97b
-----------------

Working on the second public beta...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make assignment to C<$)> call setgroups()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure config_H config_h.SH mg.c plan9/config.plan9
          pod/perldelta.pod vms/config.vms win32/config.H
          win32/config.w32

  Title:  "Grandfather "$$<digit>" in strings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Disconnect warn and die hooks _after_ object destruction"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Forbid recursive substitutions"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Use SSize_t for values of PerlIO_{read,write}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perlio.c perlio.h perlsdio.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "perlwin-97a_4: win32 environ fix"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704060431.XAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 05 Apr 1997 23:31:11 -0500
  Files:  win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "length($') isn't"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704070730.DAA07310@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 07 Apr 1997 03:30:44 -0400
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Fix obscure regex bug related to leading C<.*>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Add warning for glob failure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix C<perl -V> in presence of local patches"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Don't suggest 'Configure -der' in config.sh comments"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "CGI->redirect patch"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199704051527.KAA11280@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:27:52 -0500
  Files:  lib/CGI.pm

  Title:  "Updates to Math::Complex and Math::Trig"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/perldelta.pod
          t/lib/complex.t

  Title:  "Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:04:52 +0100
  Files:  README.win32 lib/Cwd.pm lib/FindBin.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Patch for 'perldoc -f'"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199704061732.TAA00353@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:32:04 +0200
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Document required module versions"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Document sample function perl_eval()"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199704051524.KAA06090@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:24:43 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod

  Title:  "Make L<perltrap> refer to L<perldelta>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perltrap.pod


-----------------
Version 5.003_97a
-----------------

This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm
planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact"
   From:  John Cerney <j-cerney1@ti.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100
  Files:  MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2
          cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld
          ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h
          pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Win32 update (six patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t
          t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t
          t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak
          win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
          win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h

  Title:  "AmigaOS update"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200
  Files:  README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix const-sub-related panic on C<sub foo { my $x; 0 } foo>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Minor cleanups"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500
  Files:  mg.c mg.h perl.c

  Title:  "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Fix impossible test in vivification"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "runlevel is I32, not int"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500
  Files:  pp_ctl.c util.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970404124326.647K-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
   Date:  Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:02:23 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Makefile.SH

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Math::Trig, based on (and from an author of) Math::Complex"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm
          pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t

  Title:  "Update AutoLoader and docs; support C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD'>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce
  Files:  lib/AutoLoader.pm

  Title:  "CPAN & TRL-Gnu"
   From:  Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
 Msg-ID:  <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
   Date:  Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm

  Title:  "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/AnyDBM_File.pm

  Title:  "Don't use $4 when it might be undef"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/bigfloat.pl

 TESTS

  Title:  "Make *dbm tests work with Win32"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t
          t/lib/sdbm.t

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Update INSTALL"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Pod style"
   From:  Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
  Files:  pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod
          pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
          pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod
          pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
          pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_97
----------------

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
          pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h

  Title:  "Improve definition of Sock_size_t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.h

  Title:  "Win32 update"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500
  Files:  win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC-
          2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c

  Title:  "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings"
   From:  ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
 Msg-ID:  <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  toke.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN to 1.24"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm

  Title:  "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm

  Title:  "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm

  Title:  "Fix POSIX::raise()"
   From:  "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.970401153125.8053A-100000@holmenkollen.ifi.uio
   Date:  Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:34:47 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm

  Title:  "Eliminate warnings in File::Basename"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST
  Files:  lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t

  Title:  "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/CGI.pm

  Title:  "Tweaks to constant.pm"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331205519.16684I-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  lib/constant.pm

  Title:  "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100
  Files:  lib/Benchmark.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzn2ri9gto.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Clean up some poddities, and make C<make html> work again"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
          pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::""
   From:  avera@hal.com (Jim Avera)
 Msg-ID:  <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com>
   Date:  Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

  Title:  "Eliminate pod warnings in libs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm


----------------
Version 5.003_96
----------------

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod

  Title:  "Implement void context, in which C<wantarray> is undef"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c
          pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
          pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
          pp_sys.c proto.h

  Title:  "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod
          pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t

  Title:  "Allow closures to be constant subroutines"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make C<scalar(reverse)> mean C<scalar(reverse $_)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix lexical suicide from C<my $x = $x> in sub"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever"
   From:  Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com>
   Date:  Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600
  Files:  regcomp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "safefree() mismatch"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500
  Files:  util.c

  Title:  "FreeBSD update"
   From:  Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 Msg-ID:  <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  hints/freebsd.sh

  Title:  "Win32 update (seven patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak
          win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl
          win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no>
   Date:  Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Fix autoviv bug in C<my $x; ++$x->{KEY}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500
  Files:  gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c

  Title:  "Define and use new macro: boolSV()"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
          sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c

  Title:  "Re: strict @F"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Try harder to identify errors at EOF"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org
 Msg-ID:  <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Eliminate unused dummy variable"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl lib/diagnostics.pm

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "New module constant.pm"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t

  Title:  "Remove chat2"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl

  Title:  "Include CGI.pm 2.32"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm
          lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
          lib/CGI/Switch.pm

  Title:  "Fix C<print $_> in debugger"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Re: Pod problems & fixes"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm

  Title:  "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pz4tdu7j57.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500
  Files:  lib/Sys/Syslog.pm

  Title:  "C<new SelectSaver $fh> doesn't always restore"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500
  Files:  lib/SelectSaver.pm

  Title:  "Patch for Benchmark.pm"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> w/Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000
  Files:  lib/Benchmark.pm

  Title:  "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm"
   From:  "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
 Msg-ID:  <rjray-9702272117.AA001223633@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700
  Files:  lib/AutoSplit.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL

  Title:  "Fix path bugs in installhtml"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT
  Files:  installhtml

  Title:  "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "INSTALL-1.11"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970326140905.10178A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:27:52 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Patch for perl.pod"
   From:  wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
 Msg-ID:  <199703262305.PAA13121@ducks>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perl.pod

  Title:  "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Improve and update documentation of constant subs"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Improve documentation of C<return>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc.pod patch"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per <gnat@frii.com>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod
          pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat

  Title:  "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t

  Title:  "Update docs on $]"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "perlvar.pod patch"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "Fix example of C<or> vs. C<||>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlsyn.pod

  Title:  "Pod usage and spelling patch"
   From:  Larry W. Virden
  Files:  pod/*.pod

  Title:  "Pod updates"
   From:  "Cary D. Renzema" <caryr@mxim.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/*.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_95
----------------

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "If C<perl -a>, do equivalent of C<use vars '@F'>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t
          t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh"
   From:  Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
 Msg-ID:  <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
   Date:  Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900
  Files:  hints/bsdos.sh

  Title:  "Another MachTen Patch"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970324152150.20610P-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  hints/machten_2.sh

  Title:  "Win32 update (five patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c
          lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t
          t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t
          win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c
          win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t

  Title:  "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perlio.c

 BUILD PROCESS

   (no other changes)

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Fix C<require> in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm

  Title:  "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text"
   From:  Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <qumend4qq08.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu>
   Date:  25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm

  Title:  "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000
  Files:  lib/UNIVERSAL.pm

  Title:  "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100
  Files:  lib/Term/ReadLine.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03020902af5d8e03c5ab@[194.51.248.84]>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100
  Files:  t/lib/complex.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Mention perldelta in INSTALL"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Describe pod format at top of INSTALL"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Document C</a *b/x> fix"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "pods for subroutine argument autovivication"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Missing item in perldiag"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlref.pod

  Title:  "Pod problems & fixes"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod
          pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod
          pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL

  Title:  "DB_File documentation fix"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm

  Title:  "FAQ update"
   From:  Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
  Files:  pod/perlfaq*.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_94
----------------

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h
          sv.c

  Title:  "New special literal: __PACKAGE__"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regcomp.c

  Title:  "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t

  Title:  "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>"
   From:  David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
 Msg-ID:  <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com>
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c sv.c toke.c

  Title:  "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Don't say 'static var = 1'"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  malloc.c

  Title:  "BSD/OS 3.0 hints"
   From:  Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
 Msg-ID:  <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com>
   Date:  14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500
  Files:  hints/bsdos.sh

  Title:  "More MachTen hints"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  hints/machten_2.sh

  Title:  "HP/UX hint comments"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

  Title:  "VMS update"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t
          utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms

  Title:  "vmsish.t and related patches"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c
 
  Title:  "Win32 update (four patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm
          lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness
          t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t
          t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t
          t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t
          t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t
          t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t
          t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c
          win32/*

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h

  Title:  "Fix C<print> on tied default handle"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c

  Title:  "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
  Files:  doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c
          x2p/util.c

  Title:  "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
  Files:  perl.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Makefile.SH

  Title:  "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it"
   From:  Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
  Files:  installman installperl

  Title:  "3_93 doesn't install pods"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
  Files:  installperl

  Title:  "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

  Title:  "Make hint files' warnings more visible"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh
          hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh
          hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh
          hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh
          hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "New module: autouse.pm"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm

  Title:  "Math::Complex update"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t

  Title:  "Refresh DB_File to 1.12"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

  Title:  "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500
  Files:  lib/Symbol.pm

  Title:  "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/File/Path.pm

  Title:  "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net>
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm

  Title:  "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
          lib/Getopt/Long.pm

  Title:  "Problems with SKIP in makemaker"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

  Title:  "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Exporter.pm

  Title:  "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
  Files:  lib/Exporter.pm

  Title:  "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "Re: NUL in die and other messages"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Pod/Functions.pm

  Title:  "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm

 TESTS

   (no other changes)

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "perlfaq.pod"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
          pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall

  Title:  "*.pod changes based on the FAQ"
   From:  gnat@frii.com
 Msg-ID:  <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com>
   Date:  Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
  Files:  pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod
          pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
          pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "INSTALL:  How to enable debugging"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Re: Embedding success with _93 "
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Update site list"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
 Msg-ID:  <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org>
   Date:  Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Patch to document illegal characters"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Document trap with //o and closures"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Re: Inline PI function"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Illegal character in input"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "XSUB's doc fix"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod

  Title:  "Document return from do FILE"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Document $^M in perlvar"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "typos in pods of 5.003_93"
   From:  Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
 Msg-ID:  <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com>
   Date:  19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod
          pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod

  Title:  "Re: Updates to pod punctuations"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
 Msg-ID:  <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org>
   Date:  Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
  Files:  pod/*.pod

  Title:  "clarify example in perlfunc"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm


----------------
Version 5.003_93
----------------

Me, last time:
     "This release will be the public beta of 5.004,
        or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger."
Me, now:
     "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead."

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500
  Files:  op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Support READ and GETC for tied handles"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c pp_hot.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "VMS update"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl
          vms/sockadapt.h

  Title:  "AmigaOS hint patch"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100
  Files:  hints/amigaos.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C<shift>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  av.c

  Title:  "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C<BEGIN{die}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c perl.c proto.h

  Title:  "perl -P path patch"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308120242.23766D-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:45:08 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  config_H config_h.SH perl.c plan9/config.plan9 t/comp/cpp.t
          vms/config.vms win32/config.H

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix for Unisys UNIX and libperl.so"
   From:  aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
 Msg-ID:  <memo.147328@cix.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970306110532.11070A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:15:47 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Use 'test -f', not 'test -x'"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com>
   Date:  Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script"
   From:  aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
 Msg-ID:  <memo.147326@cix.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
  Files:  perl_exp.SH

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Carp with multiple arguments"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500
  Files:  lib/Exporter.pm

  Title:  "Open[23] autoflush docs"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500
  Files:  lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Fix counts in output of TEST"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000
  Files:  t/TEST

  Title:  "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Quote pathname before using as pattern"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2html.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308131806.23766F-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 1997 13:21:22 -0500 (EST)

  Title:  "Fix more E-Mail addresses in pods"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
          lib/diagnostics.pm pod/buildtoc

  Title:  "Warn about '.' terminating E-Mail"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlform.pod

  Title:  "OS/2 doc update"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  README.os2

  Title:  "PODs corrections"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
          lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
          lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm
          lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm
          lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod
          pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod
          pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_92
----------------

This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't
Larson T. Pettifogger.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c pod/perlguts.pod

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "HP-UX hint update"
   From:  Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

  Title:  "Re: The continuing MachTen saga"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970305091611.3572E-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  hints/machten_2.sh

  Title:  "OS/2 patches"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "VMS patches"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h
          t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
          vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Clarify '-T too late' error"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c

  Title:  "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Clarify message re: @host in string"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Eliminate format-string type warnings"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c
          pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c

  Title:  "Update copyright dates"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzg1yfuiza.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Newer ReadLine"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9"
   From:  Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm

  Title:  "Benchmark: using code refs"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000
  Files:  lib/Benchmark.pm

  Title:  "Fix quotewords"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000
  Files:  lib/Text/ParseWords.pm

  Title:  "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

  Title:  "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Make op/TEST silent under -w"
   From:  d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
 Msg-ID:  <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com>
   Date:  Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST
  Files:  t/TEST

  Title:  "Smarter t/op/taint.t"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Fix taint test for systems without csh"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Don't test locales if there is no setlocale()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/pragma/locale.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Update pod2html"
   From:  wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
 Msg-ID:  <199703030025.QAA08106@ducks>
   Date:  Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/pod2html.PL

  Title:  "Support 'long long' in h2ph"
   From:  (name lost)
  Files:  utils/h2ph.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Improve sample module header"
   From:  Tom Christiansen and Graham Barr
 Msg-ID:  <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com>
   Date:  Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700
  Files:  pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Clarify C<crypt> documentation"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970228131112.12357D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:18:25 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Update list of CPAN sites"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Enhance description of 'server error'"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/*.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_91
----------------

This is (should be?  must be!) the public beta of 5.004.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
          <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
  Files:  MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c
          t/op/runlevel.t

  Title:  "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c

  Title:  "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hv.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "VMS patches post _90"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c
          vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c

  Title:  "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t"
   From:  Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
  Files:  perl.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Make dooneliner() compile again"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c

  Title:  "Clean up and document API for hashes"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
  Files:  hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "pp_undef was not always freeing memory"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500
  Files:  op.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Sanity check linking with $libs"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Configure changes for Irix nm"
   From:  Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Update OS/2 Configure diff"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  os2/diff.configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Don't require() in a signal handler"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/IPC/Open3.pm

  Title:  "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm

  Title:  "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

  Title:  "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "New test op/taint.t"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  MANIFEST t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Patch to t/op/rand.t"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  t/op/rand.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc"
   From:  Nat <gnat@frii.com>, Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "Eliminate dead code in pod2man"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970228112136.24038G-100000@fractal.lafayette.
   Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:35:49 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Updates to perlfunc.pod"
   From:  Tom Phoenix (with help from M.J.T. Guy and Tom C.)
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod

  Title:  "Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod"
   From:  Nat <gnat@frii.com>
  Files:  pod/perlrun.pod

  Title:  "Fix references to perlbug"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod
          pod/perltoc.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_90
----------------

At last, a mil[le]stone:  The first beta of Perl 5.004.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Ultrix hints"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500
  Files:  hints/ultrix_4.sh

  Title:  "Digital UNIX and 3_28"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl
          ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100
  Files:  README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t
          t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
          t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
          t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t

  Title:  "Hints for DC/OSx"
   From:  Stephen Zander <srz@loopback>
 Msg-ID:  <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800
  Files:  hints/dcosx.sh

  Title:  "Update VMS version"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c malloc.c regexec.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500
  Files:  installperl

  Title:  "installperl breaks running system (for a while)"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500
  Files:  installperl

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm

  Title:  "Pod::Text fixes"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm

  Title:  "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

  Title:  "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/vars.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
  Files:  t/op/rand.t

  Title:  "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/op/stat.t

  Title:  "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
   Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
  Files:  t/op/magic.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Post-28 INSTALL updates"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
          and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997
  Files:  pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman
          utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "pumpkin-1.9.pod"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Porting/pumpkin.pod

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  Changes

  Title:  "Document one-argument limitation with #! line"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
   Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_28
----------------

This release is beta candidate #6.  If this isn't good enough to go beta,
I'll eat a floppy disk.  (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  run.c

  Title:  "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  gv.c

  Title:  "Optimize keys() and values() in void context"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c op.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "New hints for Digital UNIX"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()"
   From:  neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld)
  Files:  hints/aix.sh

  Title:  "VMS patches post _27"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod
          pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile
          vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl
          vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h

  Title:  "Re: OS/2 patch for _27"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes
          os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
          os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness
          t/op/magic.t

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix a typo"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Minor update to malloc.c"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  malloc.c

  Title:  "Fix the Tolkien quotation"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.y

 BUILD PROCESS

   (no changes)

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Debugger patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
          os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm

  Title:  "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm

  Title:  "prototype error in File::stat"
   From:  Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com
 Msg-ID:  <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy>
   Date:  Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT
  Files:  lib/File/stat.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Include 'study' in regexp.t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/op/regexp.t

  Title:  "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/pragma/locale.t

  Title:  "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t

  Title:  "Add test for grep() and wantarray"
   From:  Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000
  Files:  t/op/misc.t

 UTILITIES

   (no changes)

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "INSTALL updates since _26"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
   Date:  Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Document "$$0" change"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod

  Title:  "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "Add pumpkin.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod

  Title:  "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y""
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl
          pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
          pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod
          pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_27
----------------

This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c

  Title:  "Allow C<setpgrp $$>"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix grep() with refs in array context"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c
          perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
          pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL
          vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
          vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
          win32/makedef.pl

  Title:  "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/sco.sh unixish.h

  Title:  "Digital UNIX hints"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)"
   From:  John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM>
   Date:  Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh

  Title:  "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl
          vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix core dump when embedding"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Re: Fragile signals"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500
  Files:  doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c
          perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c

  Title:  "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Fix carriage-return message"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "In <=>, test for equality first"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix eval "" in Configure"
   From:  allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
 Msg-ID:  <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com>
   Date:  Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4"
   From:  Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD
   Date:  Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Update os2/diff.configure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  os2/diff.configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Remove Fatal.pm"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
          pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t

  Title:  "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40"
   From:  Andy Dougherty, Andreas Koenig, Tim Bunce
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm

  Title:  "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/Test/Harness.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Remove non-portable locale tests"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/pragma/locale.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
 Msg-ID:  <yfmzpxcimsa.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
   Date:  10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Update To-Do list"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000
  Files:  Todo

  Title:  "Fix formatting in perldiag"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_26
----------------

This release is beta candidate #4.  "Once more, dear friends...."

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c pod/perldelta.pod

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "VMS patches post _25"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c
          vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl
          vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c

  Title:  "Hints for BSDOS"
   From:  Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com>
   Date:  Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hints/bsdos.sh

  Title:  "On C<sysopen(..., O_APPEND)>, call C<fopen(..., "a")>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix value of C<foreach>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Regexp optimizations"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  regcomp.c regexec.c

  Title:  "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <hbu9uz1si.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump on C<print "a", last> in eval"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Catch C<use integer; $x % 0>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix usage message in configure.gnu"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  configure.gnu

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "DB_File 1.11 patch"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

  Title:  "Faster File::Compare"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100
  Files:  lib/File/Compare.pm

  Title:  "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/IO.xs

 TESTS

  Title:  "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100
  Files:  t/op/closure.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "perldoc -f <perlfunc>"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "return *FH pod patch"
   From:  allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
 Msg-ID:  <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com>
   Date:  Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY"
   From:  Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perltie.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_25
----------------

This release is beta candidate #3.  Here's hoping...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make $] read-only"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c

  Title:  "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c
          perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
          pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c

  Title:  "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "VMS patches for _24"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs
          lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t
          t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h

  Title:  "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "amigaos.sh"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100
  Files:  hints/amigaos.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Fix C<return @_> and associated stack bugs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Fix never-closing handle after C<select>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  av.c

  Title:  "Ignore refs to lexicals when making refs to lexicals"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Don't create AV, HV, IO when assigning glob"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Configure updates for intsize and ssizetype"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST config_H config_h.SH handy.h

  Title:  "Ask about /usr/bin/perl iff STDIN and STDERR are terminals"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN to 1.19"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm

  Title:  "Debugger update"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it"
   From:  John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
  Files:  lib/Symbol.pm

  Title:  "Make POSIX::is*() eight-bit-clean"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

  Title:  "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "More Amiga test patches"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100
  Files:  README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "c2ph.PL fix"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
 Msg-ID:  <199701301349.IAA16724@cas.org>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:49:19 -0500
  Files:  utils/c2ph.PL

  Title:  "Make pod2man a little laxer for perltoc.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2man.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Update to perl INSTALL file"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
 Msg-ID:  <199701301338.IAA15878@cas.org>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:38:23 -0500
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Update to perl.pod suggested"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
 Msg-ID:  <199701301345.IAA16514@cas.org>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:59 -0500
  Files:  pod/perl.pod

  Title:  "Document how extension pms go in $archlib"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc.pod tweaks"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "new (Feb 1) perlembed.pod"
   From:  Jon Orwant <orwant@media.mit.edu>
 Msg-ID:  <9702012334.AA15747@fahrenheit-451.media.mit.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:34:59 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlembed.pod

  Title:  "Error lines must not have trialing periods"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_24
----------------

This release is the second candidate for a public beta test.
It's, well, bunches better than _23.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "glob defaults to $_"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500
  Files:  op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t

  Title:  "Re: an overloading bug "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Win32 port"
   From:  Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com>
  Files:  MANIFEST win32/*

  Title:  "Amiga files"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100
  Files:  MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh

  Title:  "New dec_osf hints"
   From:  Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
 Msg-ID:  <199701271233.OAA21548@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:33:01 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  hints/dec_osf.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Deref old stash when re-blessing"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000
  Files:  malloc.c

  Title:  "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  perl.h

  Title:  "global.sym: typo?"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  global.sym

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

  Title:  "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
  Files:  configure configure.gnu

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  XSUB.h

  Title:  "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm

  Title:  "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Text/Wrap.pm

  Title:  "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs

  Title:  "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/Test/Harness.pm

  Title:  "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash"
   From:  data-drift@so.uio.no
 Msg-ID:  <199701282014.VAA12645@selters.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:14:34 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm

  Title:  "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/IO.xs

 TESTS

  Title:  "New test op/closure.t"
   From:  Tom Phoenix, Ulrich Pfeifer
  Files:  MANIFEST t/op/closure.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "perldelta Fcntl enhancement"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s"
   From:  Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
 Msg-ID:  <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc.pod: localtime"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc diff: gmtime"
   From:  Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
 Msg-ID:  <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com>
   Date:  Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Updates to guts"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "perltoot fixes"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <6807.854214205@jinete>
   Date:  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800
  Files:  pod/perltoot.pod

  Title:  "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlsyn.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_23
----------------

This release is our first candidate for a public beta test.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod util.c

  Title:  "Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod
          pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod

  Title:  "Nested here-docs"
   From:  larry@wall.org (Larry Wall)
 Msg-ID:  <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org>
   Date:  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh toke.c

  Title:  "Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "VMS patches for _22"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
          lib/Test/Harness.pm toke.c vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms
          vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h
          vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms

  Title:  "Re: Perl 5.003_21: OS/2 patches"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701170446.XAA28939@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  os2/Changes os2/os2.c

  Title:  "Plan9 update"
   From:  lutherh@stratcom.com (Luther Huffman)
  Files:  plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile

  Title:  "Bugfixes for AmigaOS"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724691@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:13:54 +0100
  Files:  hints/amigaos.sh lib/File/Basename.pm

  Title:  "New dec_osf.sh hints file"
   From:  Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
 Msg-ID:  <9701241058.AA29550@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
   Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:58:24 +0100
  Files:  hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "on NeXT: gdbm problem fixed"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199701210201.DAA17794@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 03:01:32 +0100
  Files:  hints/next_3.sh hints/next_3_0.sh

  Title:  "patch for hints/powerux.sh"
   From:  tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
 Msg-ID:  <9701181833.AA02602@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 18 Jan 97 13:33:26 -0500
  Files:  hints/powerux.sh

  Title:  "hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx"
   From:  Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com>
   Date:  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh

  Title:  "patch for hints/cxux.sh perl5.003_22"
   From:  tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
 Msg-ID:  <9701192014.AA05722@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
   Date:  Sun, 19 Jan 97 15:14:04 -0500
  Files:  hints/cxux.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
  Files:  lib/lib.pm perl.c

  Title:  "Fix /\G.a/"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c

  Title:  "Extend stack in pp_undef (!)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Allow for sub to be redefined while executing"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c

  Title:  "Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "When sorting, promote to PVNV only for built-in comparison"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Remove "suidperl security patch" message"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST configure.gnu

  Title:  "Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg and Charles Bailey
  Files:  Configure config_H config_h.SH hints/lynxos.sh
          os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h plan9/config.plan9 sv.c
          utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com

  Title:  "Compile with optimization when testing memory functions"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Minor patch for Debian installation"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Debugger update"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701190455.XAA02579@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:54:59 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "DynaLoader enhancement: support RTLD_GLOBAL"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199701240937.JAA11443@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:18 GMT
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs
          ext/DynaLoader/dl_dld.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
          ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
          ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs

  Title:  "Fcntl: add more constants"
   From:  Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
 Msg-ID:  <199701191811.UAA16346@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Sun, 19 Jan 1997 20:11:22 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs

  Title:  "Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t

  Title:  "Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN to 1.15"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm

  Title:  "Add E* and SA_* constants"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

 TESTS

  Title:  "Test nested here-docs"
   From:  hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk (Hugo van der Sanden)
 Msg-ID:  <199701210053.AAA02139@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:53:44 +0000 (GMT)
  Files:  t/base/lex.t

  Title:  "Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t

  Title:  "Patch tests for systems without fork()"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
  Files:  t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t
          t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t

  Title:  "Test patches for OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t
          os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_cmprt.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t
          os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_sql.test
          os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tiesql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t
          os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_varset.t
          os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_vrexx.t t/README t/cmd/while.t
          t/comp/colon.t t/comp/multiline.t t/io/argv.t t/lib/anydbm.t
          t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
          t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Translate \200 to &#200; in pod2html"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/pod2html.PL

  Title:  "VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL
          pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL
          utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL
          utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms
          x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

  Title:  "Allow MakeMaker 5.34 to use libraries containing '+' in name"
   From:  dennism@cyrix.com (Dennis Marsa)
 Msg-ID:  <9701172027.AA27861@orion.cyrix.com>
   Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 97 14:27:32 CST
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "First cut at INSTALL edit"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "Document #line directive"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "Perlguts version 30"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199701172117.AA116515863@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:17:43 -0800
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "delta for perldelta"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <804.854121463@jinete>
   Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
  Files:  pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "Updates to perldelta"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perlnews.pod

  Title:  "Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
          pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall

  Title:  "Remove bad advice from perllocale.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perllocale.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_22
----------------

This release is primarily made up of bug fixes, the foremost among
which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix parsing of C< ${ xyz } >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Don't parse method calls in strings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fix overly picky carping about leading '{' in regex"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regcomp.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix memory corruption from formats"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c perl.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Fix '_mopop' typo"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Makefile.SH

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Gut IO::Handle::DESTROY"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "RiscOS is case-insensitive"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/File/Basename.pm

 TESTS

  Title:  "Fix thinko in db-recno.t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/db-recno.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Make perlbug more cautionary and more verbose"
   From:  Kenneth Albanowski and Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "NEW roffitall + INSTALL fix"
   From:  Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <6058.853410121@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
   Date:  Thu, 16 Jan 97 11:22:01 +0100
  Files:  INSTALL pod/roffitall

  Title:  "srand() doc update"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <24195.853379065@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:25 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "documentation of configpm (perl5.003_20)"
   From:  win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
 Msg-ID:  <m0vkU40-0004WAC@incom.rhein-main.de>
   Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:03:27 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  configpm


----------------
Version 5.003_21
----------------

This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of
minor but valuable language tweaks.  Please read on for a list of the
significant changes:

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t

  Title:  "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod
          pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c
          t/op/method.t

  Title:  "Formats can be closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h

  Title:  "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs

  Title:  "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg and Andreas Koenig
  Files:  MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t

  Title:  "Fail regex that starts with '{'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regcomp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "VMS patches for _20"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h
          t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t toke.c
          unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h
          x2p/a2p.h x2p/str.c

  Title:  "Irix 6.3 & 6.4 and perl5.003_20"
   From:  John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199701132242.RAA14601@jfs.Fluent.COM>
   Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:42:50 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST hints/irix_6_3.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh

  Title:  "Patch: MachTen hints, Configure"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03010d00af0123a93670@[194.51.248.75]>
   Date:  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:43:13 +0100
  Files:  Configure hints/machten.sh

  Title:  "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values"
   From:  "John Q. Linux" <jql@accessone.com>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970110193330.11249D-100000@jql.accessone.com>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 19:47:16 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pp.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  util.c

  Title:  "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Patch for Object subroutines"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  cop.h

  Title:  "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Undo change that freed large pad vars"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  scope.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Make MachTen hints file warn about db-recno failures"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03010d00aef92fba6aca@[194.51.248.78]>
   Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:07:18 +0100
  Files:  hints/machten.sh

  Title:  "5.003_20, FreeBSD 3.0 and minor patch"
   From:  roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
 Msg-ID:  <Mutt.19970108143747.roberto@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr>
   Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:47 +0100
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  installperl

 TESTS

  Title:  "Advice on TEST failure"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03010d01aefbaefcf3bc@[194.51.248.78]>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:19:07 +0100
  Files:  t/TEST

  Title:  "UNIVERSAL tests"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
  Files:  MANIFEST t/op/universal.t

  Title:  "Test deletion of array during foreach"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  t/op/misc.t

  Title:  "patch for db-recno.t"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT)
  Files:  t/lib/db-recno.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/File/Basename.pm pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL
          pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL
          utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL
          utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL
          x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

  Title:  "Fix for fd leak in IO::File::new_tmpfile"
   From:  Graham Barr and Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.6"
   From:  Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Long.pm

  Title:  "Refresh DB_File to 1.10"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

  Title:  "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pz3ewb3189.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500
  Files:  lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl

  Title:  "PATCH: AutoSplit"
   From:  Graham Barr
 Msg-ID:  <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500
  Files:  lib/AutoSplit.pm

  Title:  "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500
  Files:  lib/Carp.pm

  Title:  "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm

  Title:  "Eliminate warning from C<use overload>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/overload.pm

  Title:  "low priority patches"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT
  Files:  lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

  Title:  "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
 Msg-ID:  <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

  Title:  "Don't search for pod if path is already valid"
   From:  Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199701082325.PAA04521@pdxlx008.intel.com>
   Date:  Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:25:19 -0800
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "Yet another perldoc option"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no>
   Date:  Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

  Title:  "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500
  Files:  utils/perldoc.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Full documentation generation patch"
   From:  Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
 Msg-ID:  <15309.853323388@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
   Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 97 11:16:28 +0100
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc

  Title:  "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod"
   From:  "M.J.T. Guy"
 Msg-ID:  <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
   Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000
  Files:  pod/perlsyn.pod

  Title:  "Document use of pos() and /\G/"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod

  Title:  "Fix example #4 in perlXStut"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perlxstut.pod

  Title:  "Document new closure warnings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Misc. doc patches missing in _20"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_20
----------------

The only language change in this release is the recension of support
for named closures:  Now, no subroutine declared "sub foo {}" can be
a closure.  (This is a return to the behavior of 5.003.)  In addition,
there are new warnings triggered by any apparent attempt to use named
functions as closures.

And, as usual, there are the usual little fixes, documentation
updates, and expanded tests.  This is good stuff.  "I love you, man!"

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Rescind named closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens"
   From:  Graham Barr
 Msg-ID:  <32CE30F0.7E8425A5@tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
  Files:  perly.c perly.y

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix $^X on systems that set it to Perl's basename"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh toke.c

  Title:  "Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)"
   From:  Andy Dougherty
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Configure hints/dec_osf.sh

  Title:  "Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs"."
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  MANIFEST

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y

  Title:  "plug for safe/opcode leaks"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Finish OP= warnings: none on ^="
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c pp.c t/op/assignwarn.t

  Title:  "Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
  Files:  pp_hot.c

 BUILD PROCESS

  Title:  "Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Start all helper scripts with $startsh"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Support libperl.so under FreeBSD"
   From:  roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
 Msg-ID:  <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
   Date:  Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100
  Files:  Configure Makefile.SH

 TESTS

  Title:  "New test: comp/proto.t"
   From:  Graham Barr
 Msg-ID:  <32D0C21F.3FB28D51@tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
  Files:  MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t

  Title:  "More magic variable tests"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <7043.852565192@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:39:52 -0500
  Files:  t/harness t/op/magic.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "File::Basename::dirname bugs"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <12393.9701071719@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Tue, 7 Jan 97 17:19:59 GMT
  Files:  lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t

  Title:  "sigaction() problems"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod

  Title:  "Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm

  Title:  "Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03010d00aef53ac4d18a@[194.51.248.68]>
   Date:  Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100
  Files:  MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "pod2html.PL patch (for 5.003-19)"
   From:  Fabien TASSIN <tassin@eerie.fr>
 Msg-ID:  <199701052347.AAA21297@solar5>
   Date:  Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:47:01 +0100
  Files:  pod/pod2html.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "tiny doc patches"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "doc patch: perldsc"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "Re: constant function inlining"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzk9pp1b95.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  07 Jan 1997 15:27:50 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "scalar caller doc fix"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "perlpod.pod possible patches"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
 Msg-ID:  <9701070756.AA1185@cas.org>
   Date:  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:56:30 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlpod.pod

  Title:  "Misc perlfunc updates"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_19
----------------

Lots of internal cleanup in this patch, especially plugged memory
leaks when embedded Perl interpreters shut down and restart.  The
method cache is now invisible to user code.  And there is a new test
directory, "t/pragma".

IMHO, this is Beta quality code.

Here's a list of the more significant changes...

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make method cache invisible to user code"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c
          toke.c

  Title:  "Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix $^X under HP-UX"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh toke.c

  Title:  "New hints/hpux.sh"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix segv when calling named closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t

  Title:  "Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500
  Files:  cv.h pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes"
   From:  Doug MacEachern
 Msg-ID:  <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org>
   Date:  Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
  Files:  perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t

  Title:  "Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  pp_hot.c sv.h

  Title:  "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  scope.c

 TESTS

  Title:  "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t
          t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t
          t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars
          t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn-global
          t/pragma/warning.t

  Title:  "New tests: comp/colon.t and op/assignwarn.t"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
  Files:  MANIFEST t/comp/colon.t t/op/assignwarn.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Make libs clean under '-w'"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm lib/Env.pm
          lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm lib/Search/Dict.pm
          lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/chat2.pl
          lib/complete.pl lib/diagnostics.pm lib/ftp.pl lib/termcap.pl
          lib/validate.pl

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Perlguts, version 28"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "Re: perldelta, take 3"
   From:  Tim Bunce
 Msg-ID:  <9701031748.AA15335@toad.ig.co.uk>
   Date:  Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:48:46 +0000
  Files:  pod/perlnews.pod

  Title:  "Miscellaneous pod patches"
   From:  Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
  Files:  pod/Makefile pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
          pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "expanded flock() docs"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
  Files:  pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod

  Title:  "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile
          vms/descrip.mms


----------------
Version 5.003_18
----------------

Yet further down the road to 5.004....

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Inherited overloading"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t

  Title:  "Hide lexicals from C<use>d or C<require>d module (!)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Closures at file scope must be anonymous"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "Warn on 'undef $x; $x OP 1' where OP is *=, /=, %=, or **="
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Ultrix setlocale() workaround"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/ultrix_4.sh util.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h gv.c op.c

  Title:  "Don't forget $c in C<(($a,$b,$c)=(1,2))=(3,4,5)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump on perl_construct()/perl_destruct() loop"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Add missing syms to global.sym; update magic doc"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym pod/perlguts.pod

 TESTS

  Title:  "Expanded locale.t and misc.t"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t

  Title:  "Expanded my.t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/my.t

  Title:  "test harness for C<use x.xxxx>"
   From:  Graham Barr
 Msg-ID:  <32C76882.3F3C7999@tiuk.ti.com>
   Date:  Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:00:18 +0000
  Files:  MANIFEST t/op/use.t

  Title:  "More tests"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.961229170736.15213M-100000@solaris.teleport.co
   Date:  Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:46:21 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  t/op/each.t t/op/oct.t t/op/quotemeta.t t/op/rand.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Improving Config.pm"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.961230091244.13467L-100000@solaris.teleport.co
   Date:  Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:24:16 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  configpm

  Title:  "File::Copy under OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612280347.WAA00293@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:47:24 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Updates to perllocale.pod"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
  Files:  pod/perllocale.pod

  Title:  "Locale-related pod patches, take 2"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03007800aeea9e488b36@[194.51.248.77]>
   Date:  Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:56:41 +0100
  Files:  pod/perl.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlre.pod pod/perlsec.pod

  Title:  "Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ...""
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_17
----------------

The rate of patches is slowing down....  I see 5.004 at the end of the
tunnel!  (Hey, what's that whistle?)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support named closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "perl5.003_15 and Interactive Unix"
   From:  win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
 Msg-ID:  <m0vd254-0004oKC@incom.rhein-main.de>
   Date:  Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:45:45 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  hints/isc.sh pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Suggest "usemymalloc='n'" for FreeBSD 2.*"
   From:  rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall)
  Files:  hints/freebsd.sh

  Title:  "Minor OS/2 fixes"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C<use locale>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c sv.c

  Title:  "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

 TESTS

  Title:  "New tests: op/method.t and op/locale.t"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich and Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t

  Title:  "Test C< ()=() >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/op/misc.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

  Title:  "Newer debugger"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Perlguts, version 27"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "perlpod.pod patch for _16"
   From:  Kenneth Albanowski
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.961224225906.337B-100000@kjahds.com>
   Date:  Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perlpod.pod

  Title:  "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  pod/perllocale.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_16
----------------

This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation
updates.  We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise.  :-)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix closures that are not in subroutines"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk"
   From:  Dean Roehrich
 Msg-ID:  <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c

  Title:  "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Try again to improve method caching"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  gv.c sv.c

  Title:  "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c sv.c

  Title:  "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  scope.c

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN to 1.09"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm

  Title:  "Refresh Net::Ping to 2.02"
   From:  Russell Mosemann <mose@ccsn.edu>
  Files:  lib/Net/Ping.pm

  Title:  "Refresh IO to 1.14"
   From:  Graham Barr
  Files:  MANIFEST ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/README ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
          ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_pipe.t
          t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_tell.t
          t/lib/io_udp.t t/lib/io_xs.t

 BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES

  Title:  "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Makefile.SH

  Title:  "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c."
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  x2p/Makefile.SH

  Title:  "Fix compilation errors when malloc.c used for x2p"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
  Files:  malloc.c

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL

  Title:  "Update to perllocale.pod"
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
  Files:  pod/perllocale.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_15
----------------

As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it.  :-(

This release is strictly a bug fix -- it removes some function caching
changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't.


----------------
Version 5.003_14
----------------

We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c

  Title:  "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500
  Files:  regexec.c

  Title:  "Bug in debugger with import manipulations"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Import and dynamic methods"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  gv.c hv.c sv.c

  Title:  "malloc.c patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  malloc.c

  Title:  "sv_gets patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "pos $str patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t

  Title:  "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perlio.c perlio.h

 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.h perl_exp.SH

  Title:  "Support shared libperl on SunOS"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
  Files:  Makefile.SH

  Title:  "Configure on OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Fixes for Interactive Unix"
   From:  win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
 Msg-ID:  <m0vbeNO-00003WC@incom.rhein-main.de>
   Date:  Sun, 22 Dec 96 05:14 EET
  Files:  hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c

  Title:  "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h

  Title:  "VMS patches to 5.003_13"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c
          perl.h proto.h sv.c t/lib/filecopy.t taint.c toke.c util.c
          vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/genopt.com
          vms/perly_c.vms vms/perly_h.vms vms/test.com vms/vms.c
          vms/vms_yfix.pl

 UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Remove libnet"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm

  Title:  "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28"
   From:  Andreas Koenig
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm

  Title:  "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Remodel File::Copy."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/File/Copy.pm

  Title:  "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700
  Files:  lib/User/pwent.pm

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Better support for =for"
   From:  Kenneth Albanowski
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.961220163747.298T-100000@kjahds.com>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL

  Title:  "perllocale.pod -- second draft"
   From:  Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
 Msg-ID:  <v03007800aee1923e30a2@[194.51.248.68]>
   Date:  Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:00:50 +0100
  Files:  pod/perllocale.pod

  Title:  "Perlguts, version 26"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile
          pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall

  Title:  "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500
  Files:  lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm


----------------
Version 5.003_13
----------------

The watchword here is "synchronization."  There were a couple of
show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
everyone up to a common working base.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix core dump bug with anoncode"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Add missing backslash in Configure"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

 UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP"
   From:  Graham Barr
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm
          lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm
          lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm
          lib/Net/SNPP.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm lib/Net/Telnet.pm
          lib/Net/Time.pm pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Use binmode when doing binary FTP"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  lib/Net/FTP.pm

  Title:  "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl
          lib/open3.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/open2.t
          t/lib/open3.t

  Title:  "Long-standing problem in Socket module"
   From:  Spider Boardman
 Msg-ID:  <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
   Date:  Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500
  Files:  Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH
          ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs

  Title:  "flock() constants"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500
  Files:  ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500
  Files:  lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "small doc tweaks for _12"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500
  Files:  lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod

  Title:  "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL


----------------
Version 5.003_12
----------------

This patch is huge.  A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
docs...  it's a long list.  And speaking of lists, here's a list of
the more significant changes in 5.003_12:

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
          t/op/delete.t

  Title:  "Autovivify scalars"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Allow any word, including keyword, as label"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c

  Title:  "Fix nested closures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump on auto-vivification"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c regexec.c

  Title:  "Fix paren matching during backtracking"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regexec.c

  Title:  "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c

  Title:  "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix local($pack::{foo})"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c

  Title:  "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
 Msg-ID:  <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
   Date:  Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100
  Files:  doio.c

  Title:  "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Re: Bug in formline "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hv.c

  Title:  "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h

  Title:  "Support SvREADONLY on arrays"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  av.c

  Title:  "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perlio.c

  Title:  "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm
          lib/Test/Harness.pm

  Title:  "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym
          old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

  Title:  "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure"
   From:  John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
 Msg-ID:  <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
   Date:  Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
  Files:  Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c

  Title:  "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg
          eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm
          makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod
          pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
          pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL
          utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c
          x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

  Title:  "LynxOS support"
   From:  seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert)
 Msg-ID:  <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>
   Date:  Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t

  Title:  "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hints/linux.sh

  Title:  "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet"
   From:  aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
 Msg-ID:  <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0
  Files:  hints/svr4.sh

  Title:  "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
  Files:  INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh

  Title:  "OS/2 updates from Ilya"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h

  Title:  "VMS patches to 5.003_11"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*

 TESTING

  Title:  "recurse recurse recurse ..."
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t

 UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Add CPAN and Net::FTP"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
          lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm
          pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs"
   From:  David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com>
   Date:  Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm

  Title:  "Add File::Compare"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
   Date:  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Add Tie::RefHash"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod

  Title:  "Put "splain" in utils."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL

  Title:  "Some h2ph fixes"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
  Files:  utils/h2ph.PL

  Title:  "xsubpp patch to add #line"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

  Title:  "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t

  Title:  "DB_File 1.09 patch"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

  Title:  "Debugger update"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale"
   From:  Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod
          pod/perlnews.pod

  Title:  "perltoot.pod"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
   Date:  Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod

  Title:  "Perlguts, version 25"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "pod/perlipc.pod patch"
   From:  d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
 Msg-ID:  <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com>
   Date:  Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST
  Files:  pod/perlipc.pod

  Title:  "pod patches for English errors"
   From:  Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
 Msg-ID:  <24616.850167191@castor>
   Date:  Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
  Files:  pod/*.pod

  Title:  "Misc doc updates"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
   Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
  Files:  pod/*

----------------
Version 5.003_11
----------------

This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004.  Nothing dramatic, lots of
value.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y

  Title:  "Don't reset $. on open()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c

  Title:  "Don't let expression context force return context"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doio.c sv.c

  Title:  "Fix modulo operator in UV realm"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c toke.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c sv.h

  Title:  "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Fix line numbers near control structures"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h

  Title:  "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c util.c

  Title:  "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c
          ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h
          hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c

  Title:  "Less malloc in magic"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  mg.c

  Title:  "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  pod/perlguts.pod

  Title:  "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c

 PORTABILITY AND TESTING

  Title:  "Bitwise op fix for Alpha"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "hints/dgux.sh update"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500
  Files:  hints/dgux.sh

  Title:  "BUG in hints/hpux.sh"
   From:  Jeff McDougal <jmcdo@cris.com>
 Msg-ID:  <32A42C11.7FA2@cris.com>
   Date:  Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:33:05 -0500
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

  Title:  "VMS patches for 5.003_10"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH
          pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c toke.c util.c
          utils/perldoc.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h

  Title:  "_10+ under OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  malloc.c os2/diff.configure

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "{in,ob}structive pods"
   From:  Tom Christiansen
 Msg-ID:  <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com>
   Date:  Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm
          lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm lib/Net/protoent.pm
          lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm
          lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm

  Title:  "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto>
   Date:  Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm

  Title:  "Make IO::File::import use its parameters"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

  Title:  "10+ debugger patch"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod

  Title:  "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

  Title:  "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3

  Title:  "DB_File 1.07"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
          t/lib/db-recno.t

  Title:  "DB_File 1.08"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs


----------------
Version 5.003_10
----------------

This patch is closing in on 5.004.  It contains lots of small and
valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions
   From:  John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}""
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  regexec.c

  Title:  "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hv.c hv.h perl.h

  Title:  "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Better support for UVs"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h

  Title:  "Minor locale cleanups"
          (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
          'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/posix.t util.c

  Title:  "Always taint result of sprintf() on float"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c

  Title:  "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c

  Title:  "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  doop.c pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c

  Title:  "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Namespace cleanup"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym old_global.sym perl.h

  Title:  "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Reliable signal patch"
   From:  Kenneth Albanowski
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>
   Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c

  Title:  "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "3_09: minor patches for OS/2"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs
          os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL
          os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL
          os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h

  Title:  "Re: 5.003_09 and QNX"
   From:  nort@bottesini.harvard.edu (Norton Allen)
 Msg-ID:  <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>
   Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
  Files:  Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp
          t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h

  Title:  "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  t/op/sysio.t

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Minor patch to debugger"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl

  Title:  "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT
  Files:  lib/AutoLoader.pm

  Title:  "Diagnostic cleanup"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod


----------------
Version 5.003_09
----------------

This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable
scoping and locale handling.

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Lexical locales"
          (make effectiveness of locales depend on C<use locale>)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  too many to list

  Title:  "Lexical scoping cleanup"
          (tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the
          new constructs and somewhat on the old)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c

  Title:  "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa
   From:  Jarkko Hietaniemi
 Msg-ID:  <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi>
   Date:  Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET)
  Files:  MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
          t/op/sysio.t

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  Configure

  Title:  "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  proto.h

  Title:  "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1,
   From:  John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
 Msg-ID:  <01BBD6EE.E915C860@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
   Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:27:06 +0100
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto>
   Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT
  Files:  universal.c

  Title:  "die -> croak"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500
  Files:  pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  embed.pl

  Title:  "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym old_global.sym

  Title:  "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Cleanups from Ilya."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c

  Title:  "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  hv.c hv.h proto.h

  Title:  "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c

 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "VMS patches post-5.003_08"
   From:  Charles Bailey
 Msg-ID:  <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
          lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c pp_ctl.c
          utils/h2xs.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c
          vms/vmsish.h

  Title:  "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
 Msg-ID:  <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   Date:  Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs
          os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c

  Title:  "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST
  Files:  ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs

  Title:  "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)"
   From:  Jeff Okamoto
 Msg-ID:  <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
   Date:  Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800
  Files:  hints/hpux.sh

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/db-hash.t

  Title:  "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  lib/I18N/Collate.pm

  Title:  "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t

  Title:  "minimal timelocal.pl for _09"
   From:  Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
 Msg-ID:  <9611191854.AA19586@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
   Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:23 +0100
  Files:  lib/Time/Local.pm

  Title:  "Socket test improvement from Ilya."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  t/lib/io_sock.t

  Title:  "Re: blib"
   From:  Nick Ing-Simmons
 Msg-ID:  <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com>
   Date:  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT
  Files:  lib/blib.pm

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "perldiag documentation patch."
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "a missing perldiag entry"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc patch"
   From:  Paul Marquess
 Msg-ID:  <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
   Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

  Title:  "Patch for pod/perlpod.pod"
   From:  "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120235016.6666A-100000@hammer.chu.cam.ac.uk
   Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:54:41 +0000 (GMT)
  Files:  pod/perlpod.pod

  Title:  "Update locale documentation."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perli18n.pod

 BUNDLED UTILITIES

  Title:  "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}."
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  x2p/util.c


----------------
Version 5.003_08
----------------

This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people.  Here are some of the more significant changes.


 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Make C<no FOO> fail if C<unimport FOO> fails"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  gv.c

  Title:  "Bitwise op sign rationalization"
          (Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
          integer> is in effect.  Includes initial support for UVs.)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h
          pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t

  Title:  "Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures"
          (Finally defines semantics of "my" in control expressions,
          like the condition of "if" and "while".  In all cases, scope
          of a "my" var extends to the end of the entire control
          structure.  Also adds new construct "for my", which
          automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits
          its scope to the loop.)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c

  Title:  "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')"
          (This patch makes Perl correctly ignore SvIVX() if either
          NOK or POK is true, since SvIVX() may be a truncated or
          overflowed version of the real value.)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c

  Title:  "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  opcode.pl

  Title:  "Provide scalar context on left side of "->""
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perly.c perly.y

  Title:  "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'""
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c


 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  proto.h toke.c util.c

  Title:  "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Fixes for pack('w')"
   From:  Ulrich Pfeifer
  Files:  pp.c t/op/pack.t

  Title:  "More complete output from sv_dump()"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  sv.c

  Title:  "Major '..' and debugger patches"
   From:  Ilya Zakharevich
  Files:  lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h

  Title:  "Fix for formline()"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c
          t/op/write.t

  Title:  "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
  Files:  pp_sys.c

  Title:  "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym"
          (New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
          avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
          ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c
          perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c
          x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h

  Title:  "Support old embedding for people who want it"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym


 PORTABILITY

  Title:  "Miscellaneous VMS fixes"
   From:  Charles Bailey
  Files:  lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
          lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl
          perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t
          t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL
          vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
          vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
          vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c

  Title:  "DJGPP patches (MS-DOS)"
   From:  "Douglas E. Wegscheid" <wegscd@whirlpool.com>
  Files:  doio.c dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c handy.h
          lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Find.pm malloc.c perl.c
          perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c util.c

  Title:  "Plan 9 update"
   From:  Luther Huffman <lutherh@infinet.com>
  Files:  plan9/buildinfo plan9/config.plan9 plan9/exclude
          plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc

  Title:  "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS"
   From:  Norbert Pueschel
  Files:  MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm
          lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "DB_File 1.05"
   From:  Paul Marquess
  Files:  ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t

  Title:  "Getopts::Std patch for hash support"
   From:  Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
  Files:  lib/Getopt/Std.pm

  Title:  "Kludge for bareword handles"
          (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm)
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm

  Title:  "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module"
   From:  hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Hammen)
  Files:  Configure config_h.SH ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
          ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t

 BUNDLED UTILITIES

  Title:  "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y


----------------
Version 5.003_07
----------------

This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
in 5.003_06.  5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004.

If it doesn't work for you, try

	LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL

for Bourne shell users, or 

	setenv LC_ALL C

for C-shell users.  Some versions of IRIX are reported to have
problems with sort when the locale is other than C.  This manifests
as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step.

The details are described below.  A very brief summary is:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

   -Support for BER compressed integers.  See perlfunc.pod for
    documentation on the 'w' option.

   -untaint support added to IO extension.
    
o Changes in Core Internals

   -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
    as it was pre-5.003_01.  Again, this is for binary compatibility
    with 5.003.  (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.)

   -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4.

o Configure and build enhancements

   -improved SCO hints.  Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but
    they may be right.

   -OS/2 and Plan9 updates.

o Bug fixes

    -print sort (4,1,3,2);

    -group numbers are integers again.

    -other things.  See the specific changes for details.

o Specific Changes

Here are the specific file-by-file changes.

Index: Changes

    Updated for 5.003_07.

    Fixed a spelling error.

Index: Configure

    Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc.
    Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test
    program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of
    Configure have moved around unchanged.  The patch is big but the
    effect is little.

    Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests.
    Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one
    or the other in the hints file for now.

Index: INSTALL

    Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values.

Index: MANIFEST

    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version

    This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
    IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
    that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
    said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.

    This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
    pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
    adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.

    Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    os2/Changes added.

Index: Makefile.SH

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
	shared library target, which is delegated to
	$osname/Makefile.SHs if found.
    config.h should depend on config_h.SH.

    Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly
    sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked).

Index: README.os2

    New version.

Index: config_H

    Update SH_PATH comment.

Index: config_h.SH

    Update SH_PATH comment.

Index: ext/IO/IO.xs

    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version

    This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
    IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
    that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
    said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.

    This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
    pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
    adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.

    Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version

    This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
    IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
    that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
    said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.

    This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
    pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
    adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.

    Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad
    things it can do.

Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h

    Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
    I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
    and we might need to hide it.

Index: gv.c

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Better error message for overload.

Index: hints/os2.sh

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
	memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
    Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately.
    libc was in .../st/... instead of mt.
    README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod.

Index: hints/sco.sh

    Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>.

Index: installperl

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).

Index: lib/Cwd.pm

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
    done outside of OS/2 too?).

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    `bool' entry added.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).

Index: lib/File/Copy.pm

    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich
    Subject: Cleanup after new test

    Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
    plain broken under OS/2 and VMS)

Index: lib/FindBin.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module

Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm

    Update to version 2.4.

Index: lib/lib.pm

    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400
    From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com>
    Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm

    Ignore undefined entries.

Index: lib/newgetopt.pl

    Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long.

Index: makedepend.SH

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
    (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
    with more than two '.'  Such names are illegal on some systems.)

Index: mg.c

    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06

    The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
    introduced in 5.003_06.  This patch is required to fix the bug:

Index: os2/Changes

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
    updates for fork()ing.

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    added.

Index: os2/Makefile.SHs

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
    aout_clean is done automatically on clean.

Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Use `unlink' where appropriate.

Index: os2/diff.configure

    Updated.

Index: os2/os2.c

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
    popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
    builtins added for the sake of path manipulation.

Index: os2/os2ish.h

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
    updates for fork()ing.

Index: patchlevel.h

    Change to subversion 7.

Index: perl.c

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
    From: Tim Bunce
    Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}

    I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
    (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
    is frightning!).

    If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
    of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
    Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.

Index: perl.h

    Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
    I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
    and we might need to hide it.

Index: plan9/aperl

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/buildinfo

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/config.plan9

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/exclude

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/fndvers

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/genconfig.pl

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/mkfile

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/plan9.c

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/plan9ish.h

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/setup.rc

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: plan9/versnum

    Updated for 5.003_07

Index: pod/perldiag.pod

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
    OS/2-specific messages added.

Index: pod/perlfunc.pod

    Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack

Index: pod/perli18n.pod

    Updated version with high bits intact.

Index: pod/perlop.pod

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Crossrefs corrected.

Index: pod/perltrap.pod

    Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4
    and perl5.

Index: pod/perlvar.pod

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    $^E under OS/2.

Index: pp.c

    Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack

Index: pp_sys.c

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT
    From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>

    The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened
    with write privileges for chsize to work correctly.

Index: sv.c

    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work

    >> >       print sort (4,1,2,3);
    >> >
    >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort.   Bug?  Feature?

    This broke between 5.001n and 5.002.  There was a long winded thread
    about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around
    the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on
    p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that
    the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called:

    Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above
    code breaks!  Here's a patch against 5.00306.

Index: t/lib/anydbm.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/db-btree.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/db-hash.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/db-recno.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/gdbm.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    Better error message on dying.

Index: t/lib/io_taint.t

    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version

    This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
    IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
    that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
    said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.

    This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
    pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
    adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.

    Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle.

Index: t/lib/ndbm.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/odbm.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/sdbm.t

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
    nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
    for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
    no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
    database code.
    So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.

Index: t/lib/socket.t

    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)

    fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
    rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases.

Index: t/op/pack.t

    Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack

Index: t/op/sort.t

    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests

Index: util.c

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich

    uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
    as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).

Index: x2p/Makefile.SH

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
    From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
    Subject: Re: sh Configure?

    Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
    in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
    pathname of the file being extracted.

Index: x2p/cflags.SH

    Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
    From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
    Subject: Re: sh Configure?

    Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
    in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
    pathname of the file being extracted.


----------------
Version 5.003_06
----------------

This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
The details are described below.  A very brief summary is:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

   -Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
    locales, including LC_COLLATE.  See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
    Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi.

   -new version of Math::Complex, with test suite.  Ought to be
    backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.

   -Pre-extending hashes now works.  keys %hash = 5000 will pre-size
    %hash.

   -__DATA__ filehandle is untainted.

o Changes in Core Internals

   -gv_fullname and gv_efullname have reverted to their pre-5.003_03
    versions for binary compatibility.  Actually, they are implemented
    as stubs pointing to the new 3-argument forms gv_fullname3 and
    gv_efullname3.

   -Perl's malloc is once again called 'Mymalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
    as it was pre-5.003_01.  Again, this is for binary compatibility
    with 5.003.

o Configure and build enhancements

   -many new tests for the standard library.

   -test suite now locale-friendly.

   -a2p.man and s2p.man now made into pods.

o Bug fixes

   -whitespace lexer errors fixed.

   -many, many other things.  See details below.

o Specific Changes

Here are the specific file-by-file changes.

# This is my patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl5.003_05
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
#    -- Andy Dougherty

# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them
# executable.
for t in abbrev.t autoloader.t basename.t checktree.t complex.t \
	env.t fatal.t filecache.t filecopy.t filefind.t filepath.t \
	findbin.t getopt.t hostname.t parsewords.t searchdict.t \
	selectsaver.t symbol.t texttabs.t textwrap.t timelocal.t
do
    touch t/lib/$t
    chmod +x t/lib/$t
done

# The a2p.man and s2p.man pages have been changed into pods.
rm -f x2p/a2p.man x2p/s2p.man

exit 0


This is patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl version 5.003_05.
This takes you from 5.003_05 to 5.003_06.

To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type

	patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_06.pat

The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below.  This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as

	csplit -k perl5.003_06.pat '/^Index:/' '{999}'

(Of course, since there are more than 100 Index entries, your
csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100
files.  Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.)

Index: Changes

    Updated for 5.003_06.

Index: Configure

    Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared
    libperl.so

    Add /shlib to libpth.  It is used by Digital Unix 4.0.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
    From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>

    Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled
    into thinking it's OS/2.

Index: INSTALL

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    added LC_COLLATE doc.

Index: MANIFEST

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

    Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
    From: Andreas Koenig
    Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)

    Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    added perli18n.pod.

Index: README

    Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.

Index: configpm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: configure

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
    From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>

    Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have
    accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'.

Index: doio.c

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: doop.c

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

Index: dump.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

Index: embed.h

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: ext/IO/IO.pm

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/IO.xs

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Updated to IO-1.12.

Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl

    Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests.
    The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system,
    ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against
    -lc when compiling.  (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile
    statically)

Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup

    The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc.

Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    setlocale() allowed one argument only,
    call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded.

Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl

    Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
    From: Andreas Koenig
    Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)

    Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.

Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h

    Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
    5.003.

Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: global.sym

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm.

Index: gv.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

Index: handy.h

    Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05

    This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
    since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
    applied, use this one instead.

    The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
    ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.

Index: hints/machten.sh

    Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC.

Index: hints/next_3.sh

    Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off
    the optimizier.

    Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
    From: Andreas Koenig
    Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)

    Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.

Index: hv.c

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)

    I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
    to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
    I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
    needed later to call unsharepvn().  This means that only magical
    hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.

    Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
    The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
    flag.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

Index: hv.h

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)

    I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
    to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
    I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
    needed later to call unsharepvn().  This means that only magical
    hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.

    Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
    The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
    flag.

Index: installman

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: installperl

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm

    Date: Mon Sep  9 09:29:44 1996
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent

    > This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
    This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
    since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
    filename manipulations:

    Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix

    It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
    function.  With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
    from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.

    This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
    updating its documentation.

Index: lib/Benchmark.pm

    Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: a really really tiny typo

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Cwd.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Env.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Exporter.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm

    Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib}

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

    Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1).

Index: lib/File/Basename.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS

    The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
    fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: File::Basename documentation patch

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
    File::Basename was also wrong:

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: lib/File/Copy.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/File/Find.pm

    Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:37:44 +0200
    From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@it.com.pl>
    Subject: File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug

    The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged
    through the user defined function which is callbacked from find.  It carries
    out a stat operation

    Simplest fix is merely to document this

Index: lib/File/Path.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/FindBin.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away)

Index: lib/IPC/Open2.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    ord() is a dangerous thing.

Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
    From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
    # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
    # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
    # New version.  Should be backwards compatible, but please
    # check it out if you use it.

Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm

    Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/

    The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
    of tr/A-Z/a-z/.  This will make folding of non-english letters work if
    the locale is set up correctly.

Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Symbol.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup

      perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'

    I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from
    <DATA> in the first place.  Perhaps we want to apply this patch
    instead.

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm

    Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Patch for Term::Cap

    'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
    patch below avoids the warning.

    [The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be
    ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.]

Index: lib/Term/Complete.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm

    Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)

    This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
    and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).

Index: lib/Text/Tabs.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/Time/Local.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm

    Add in stub file.

Index: lib/bigint.pl

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    ord() is a dangerous thing.

Index: lib/diagnostics.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/overload.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/perl5db.pl

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich
    Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work

Index: lib/splain

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: lib/strict.pm

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: makedepend.SH

    Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently
    preserves modification times for a 'cp' command.
    I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2.
    If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement.

Index: malloc.c

    Not all sbrks return zeroed memory.

Index: mg.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!

    This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
    to the numeric value of $!.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

    Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E

    This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
    related to the numeric values of $! and $^E.  This patch *REPLACES*
    the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!.

    [Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.]

Index: op.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

Index: opcode.h

    Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
    From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
    Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program

    The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
    into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
    C++ compiler.

Index: opcode.pl

    Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
    From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
    Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program

    The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
    into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
    C++ compiler.

Index: patchlevel.h

    Change to subversion 6.

Index: perl.c

    From: Roderick Schertler
    Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC

    support C<perl -e'attached code'>

    Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
    Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv.  Here's a patch.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: perl.h

    Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05

    This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
    since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
    applied, use this one instead.

    The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
    ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
    5.003.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

Index: perl_exp.SH

    Add new function perl_init_fold.  (I'm not sure it goes here.)

Index: perlio.c

    Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58 PDT
    From: Hunter Kelly <retnuh@zule.pixar.com>
    Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.

    Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters.

Index: perlsdio.h

    Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400
    From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com>
    Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.

    Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: pod/Makefile

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added.

Index: pod/buildtoc

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perl.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    perli18n advertised.

Index: pod/perlapio.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

Index: pod/perlbook.pod

    Updated for Second Edition.

Index: pod/perlcall.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perldata.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perldebug.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perldiag.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: pod/perldsc.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlembed.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlform.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlfunc.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlguts.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches
    Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
    From: Jeff Okamoto
    Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch

    Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004.  This
    incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch.

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perli18n.pod

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    written.

Index: pod/perlipc.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perllol.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlmod.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
    From: Roderick Schertler
    Subject: documentation for $? in END

    Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.

Index: pod/perlobj.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlop.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page

    Add alternative names for various escape sequences.

Index: pod/perlpod.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlre.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page

    Add alternative names for various escape sequences.

Index: pod/perlref.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlrun.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlsec.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlstyle.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlsub.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlsyn.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perltie.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perltoc.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.

Index: pod/perltrap.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: a perl425 trap

    Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
    [interpolation issues]

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/perlvar.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
    From: Roderick Schertler
    Subject: documentation for $? in END

    Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.

Index: pod/perlxstut.pod

    Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
    From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: POD spelling patches

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: pod/pod2man.PL

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

    Bugs found in pod2man

    The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed:

    1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not
    treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been
    rearranged to place the link on one line.  This is the only bug worked
    around.  [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand,
    remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs
    can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod,
    without breaking links.]

    2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part
    of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the
    \f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source
    having been "L</binmode> for tips".  [Fixed.]

    3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass
    by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'.

    4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff
    from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction.

    5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this
    confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins
    with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead
    of basic functions."'.

    Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod
    modules, when ready, will not have these defects.

Index: pp_ctl.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.

Index: pp_hot.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles

    This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
    on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
    file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
    There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
    before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
    reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
    on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
    pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
    this should not introduce any insecurity.

    This patch *does not*:

    * Add the "untaint" keyword.

Index: pp_sys.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles

    This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
    on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
    file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
    There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
    before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
    reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
    on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
    pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
    this should not introduce any insecurity.

    This patch *does not*:

    * Add the "untaint" keyword.

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: Patch to patch for untainting

    The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that
    has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a
    re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be
    considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of
    its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method,
    then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
    miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
    library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't
    work.  Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core.

Index: proto.h

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added.

Index: run.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

Index: sv.c

    Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
    Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

      I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
      fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets().  These were useful
      to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in
      case they're useful to someone in the future.  However, if you
      think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it.  (-DP
      already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.

Index: sv.h

    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles

    This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
    on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
    file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
    There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
    before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
    reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
    on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
    pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
    this should not introduce any insecurity.

    This patch *does not*:

    * Add the "untaint" keyword.

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)

    I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
    to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
    I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
    needed later to call unsharepvn().  This means that only magical
    hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.

    Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
    The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
    flag.

Index: t/base/term.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    \n not necessarily lt ' '.

Index: t/comp/package.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    XYZ not necessarily gt xyz.

Index: t/lib/abbrev.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

    Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
    From: Ulrich Pfeifer
    Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)

    This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
    and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).

Index: t/lib/anydbm.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/autoloader.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
    since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
    filename manipulations:

Index: t/lib/basename.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    Fix the number of tests.

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

    A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends.

Index: t/lib/checktree.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/complex.t

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
    From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
    # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
    # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996

    Tests for new version.

Index: t/lib/db-btree.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/db-hash.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/env.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/fatal.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/filecache.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/filecopy.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/filefind.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/filepath.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/findbin.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/gdbm.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/getopt.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/hostname.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/ndbm.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/odbm.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/parsewords.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/sdbm.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/lib/searchdict.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/symbol.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman

    The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work.  For some, it was
    only because the count of tests was wrong:

Index: t/lib/texttabs.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/textwrap.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/lib/timelocal.t

    Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
    From: Gisle Aas
    Subject: More standard library test scripts

    This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
    Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
    out are applied.

Index: t/op/each.t

    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
    From: Spider Boardman
    Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed

    The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
    "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
    pre-sizing hashes.  I've only moved the patch forward from
    when I first did it.  I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
    improved.

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/op/glob.t

    Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug

    Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one
    fails because <op/*> sorts  op/re_* before op/rea*, while
    $otherway = `echo op/*`  sorts  op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t

    This version doesn't rely on the sorting order.

Index: t/op/magic.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

Index: t/op/readdir.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: t/op/sort.t

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    A not necessarily gt a.

Index: toke.c

    Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch)

    I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately
    overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making
    expectation decisions in the lexer).

    Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;>

    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
    From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
    Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles

    This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
    on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
    file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
    There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
    before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
    reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
    on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
    pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
    this should not introduce any insecurity.

    This patch *does not*:

    * Add the "untaint" keyword.

Index: util.c

    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
    From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
    Subject: LC_COLLATE.

    Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.

    rewrote perl_init_i18n() completely.
	- reworded to be much more friendly and clear.
	- perl_init_fold() split to its own function.
    wrote mem_collxfrm().

Index: utils/c2ph.PL

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: utils/h2ph.PL

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: utils/h2xs.PL

    Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500
    From: Dean Roehrich
    Subject: h2xs bug fix

    The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from
    finding #define statements and filling the constant() function.  This patch
    fixes that.  The h2xs_test program found this--maybe people who are
    modifying h2xs should get a copy of the test program.

    This also adds a -d to enable debugging messages (there's just one for now).
    I've also placed some of the doc-related things in alphabetical order.

    h2xs_test can be found in my directory on CPAN.  Those of you modifying
    xsubpp should know there's a test suite for that, too, called XSTEST which
    can also be found in my directory on CPAN.

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
    5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.

Index: utils/perldoc.PL

    Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: perldoc patch

    Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2.

Index: vms/config.vms

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: vms/descrip.mms

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: vms/genconfig.pl

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: vms/perlvms.pod

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: vms/vms.c

    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Charles Bailey
    Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05

Index: x2p/a2p.pod

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    This patch just changed the old a2p.man page into a pod page.

Index: x2p/s2p.PL

    Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments

    This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page.
    I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.


----------------
Version 5.003_05
----------------

This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the remaining issues from in 5.003_04.  The details are described below.
A very brief summary is:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

   -Add support for a READLINE method to tied filehandles.

   -times function now uses CLK_TCK if HZ is not available, rather
    than just defaulting to 60.  times output might change on some
    systems, but should be correct now.

   -AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
    Now behaves as documented:  Modifying ISA works to select
    order in which *DB* modules are tried.  The default is still
    the same.

o Configure and build enhancements

   -Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants.  Some systems have
    BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other.  Use
    [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.

   -You can now build a shared libperl.so without running through
    the LD_RUN_PATH hoops, if your system supports appropriate
    ld command-line options.  Solaris, NetBSD, and Linux are currently
    supported.  Others are easy to add.  (This makes like a lot easier
    for embedders.)

   -VMS updates.

   -Fix installperl and installman so that the -n option really only
    prints commands.  (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)

o Bug fixes

   -debugger ought to work.

   -A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH is now quoted.  This prevented
    5.003_04 from working most places.

   -numerous smaller ones, detailed below.

o Specific Changes

Here are the specific file-by-file changes.

# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
#   -- Andy Dougherty

# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
touch t/io/read.t
chmod +x t/io/read.t

exit 0


This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04.
This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05.

To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type

	patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat

The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below.  This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as

	csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'

Index: Changes

    Updated for 5.003_05.

Index: Configure

    Allow command line or hint-file overrides of $afs.

    Allow trailing spaces in nm output for HPUX10.

    Check for newer BIND 'search' directives in /etc/resolv.conf as well
    as older 'domain' directive.

    Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants.  Some systems have
    BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other.  Use
    [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.

    Include -s in the -h summary of available options.

    Allow command-line override of $afs.

    Handle trailing spaces in nm-output on HPUX10.

    Set shrpenv for handling LD_RUN_PATH, if needed. (This used to
    be in Makefile.SH.  Now it's available for other modules too.)

    When using shared libperl, avoid LD_RUN_PATH if possible by adding
    correct ld flags.  Currently, Solaris and NetBSD get the correct
    -R $archlibexp/CORE, and Linux gets its
    -Wl,-rpath,$archlibexp/CORE flag.  Other contributions are
    welcome.

Index: INSTALL

    Correct libperl5 -> libperl typo.

    Describe MakeMaker's Warning (will try anyway) messages.

    More info on where and how to send reports.

    Add info on non-Unix ports.


Index: MANIFEST

    Add new test t/io/read.t.

    Add new hints files for ODBM_File for ultrix and hpux.

    Add new pod checker script.

Index: Makefile.SH

    A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH needs to be quoted.

    shrpenv stuff moved to Configure.

Index: Porting/Glossary

    Updated to match Configure.

Index: README.vms

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: av.h

    Subject: turbidity in av.[ch]
    Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy

    Some unclean code that I noticed today.

Index: config_H

    Updated to match newest config_h.SH.

Index: config_h.SH

    Updated to match Configure.

    Changed the DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE comment to
    /**/ to conform to metaconfig style.

Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el

    From: Ilya Zakharevich
    Subject: Newer CPerl-mode

Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm

    Update to DB_File 1.03.

Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs

    Update to DB_File 1.03.

Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm

    Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl

    Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading.

Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm

    From: Roderick Schertler
    Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0

    This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin.

Index: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs

    Attempt to correct for "Bad free" in Ultrix and HPUX versions of
    odbm.

Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/hpux.pl

    Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().

Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl

    Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().

Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm

    Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200
    From: Andreas Koenig
    Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm

    This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless
    auto/Socket/autosplit.ix.

Index: handy.h

    Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.

Index: hints/convexos.sh

    Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround.  Configure & perl.h should handle
    this now.

Index: hints/hpux.sh

    Add note about possible gcc GR3 warning message.

    Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround.  Configure & perl.h should handle
    this now.

Index: hints/sco.sh

    Turn off optimization for stock cc.  This appears to
    prevent miniperl core dumps.

Index: hints/solaris_2.sh

    Catch GNU ld even though it doesn't identify itself as a GNU tool.
    Thanks to Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>.

Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh

    Describe solution for the __lib_version problem with acc on
    SunOS.

Index: hv.c

    Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: minor misc. cleanup

    This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources.  No change
    in functionality whatsoever.

    Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy

    Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04)

    I have tried to avoid copying of hash keys that are passed to
    magical hashes, but it seems that copying may be unavoidable
    since the hv_*_ent() functions could be PADTMPs (and other
    SVs that may get reused) as keys.

    VMS dynamic %ENV fix

Index: installman

    From: scotth@sgi.com
    Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)

    Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
    (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)

    an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
    to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
    *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)

Index: installperl

    From: scotth@sgi.com
    Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)

    Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
    (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)

    an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
    to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
    *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)

Index: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm

    AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
    Now behaves as documented:  Modifying ISA works to select
    order in which *DB* modules are tried.  The default is still
    the same.


    Add helpful "die" message to end of AnyDBM_File.  Previously
    it would return a 0, and the failure would eventually show up
    somewhere else in the script and be hard to track down.  It is
    a failure if perl can't open AnyDBM_File.  The test regression
    suite is supposed to indicate this as a failure too.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

    Fix for VMS utime.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.39 to allow CFLAGS in hint files.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

    Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.

Index: lib/File/Find.pm

    From: Michael Mahan <mahanm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu>
    Subject: Cwd::fastcwd in File::Find

    Is there a good reason why File::Find uses Cwd::fastcwd instead of
    Cwd:cwd when fastcwd isn't as portable?
    [In particular, fastcwd() doesn't work on AFS.]

Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm

    There was a mistake in the sqrt routine in lib/Math/Complex.pm that
    gave wrong answers when the magnitude of the imaginary part of the
    argument exceeded the magnitude of the real part.  Line 69 had too
    many sqrt($y)'s.  Further, expressions were re-arranged so that
    calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2
    in this case.

Index: lib/open3.pl

    The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards.
    IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error.

Index: lib/syslog.pl

    Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400
    From: Roderick Schertler
    Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage

    syslog.pl tries but fails to use
    Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value.  This
    module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course.

Index: makedepend.SH

    This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since
    they're not really needed anyway in this one case.

Index: mg.c

    Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem.
    I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually
    uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys
    to the vtbl_dbline handlers).

    Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
    the simple MgPVKEY macro.

    Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere).  Add
    additional parens around the "mg".

    (lines near 584) Part of VMS changes.  I don't know what this did.

    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) >

    This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers
    (C<sv_setiv>) instead of floats.  It also eliminates a warning from
    C< local($)) >, via a hack similar to $!.

Index: mg.h

    Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
    the simple MgPVKEY macro.

    Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere).  Add
    additional parens around the "mg".

Index: nostdio.h

    Add _STDIO_LOADED (VMS) to list of guard symbols.

Index: op.c

    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)

Index: patchlevel.h

    Change to subversion 5.

Index: perl.c

    Make floating point constants Locale-friendly.

Index: perl.h

    One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
    minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.

    Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.

    Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants.  Some systems have
    BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other.  Use
    [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.

Index: perlio.c

    Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning

    Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions.

Index: perlsdio.h

    Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen.

    Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname.

    s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo.
    This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere.

    Include PerlIO_canset_cnt.  I'm not sure how this is supposed to
    differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE.

Index: pod/Makefile

    Remove trailing spaces in pods.
    Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's
    not ordinarily used by users).

Index: pod/checkpods.PL

    New script to check for common errors in pods.  This is not
    normally called during the perl build process, but you can
    use it with  B<make check>.

Index: pod/perlfunc.pod

    Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.

    Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp.

Index: pod/perlipc.pod

    Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.

Index: pod/perlref.pod

    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)

Index: pod/perltie.pod

    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
    From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
    Subject: more TIEHANDLE

    This adds support for a READLINE method.

Index: pod/perltrap.pod

    Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4
    and Perl 5.

    Subject: More (and less!) 425traps

    Large integer traps

    Precedence

    warn STDERR

    Change blank lines to empty lines.

Index: pod/perlvar.pod

    Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines
    with no spaces or tabs.

    Change blank lines to empty lines.

Index: pp.c

    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics

    This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
    values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.

    Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)

    (double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().

Index: pp_hot.c

    Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: minor misc. cleanup

    This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources.  No change
    in functionality whatsoever.

    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
    From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
    Subject: more TIEHANDLE

    This adds support for a READLINE method.

Index: pp_sys.c

    Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
    This is almost certainly a bug-fix.

    Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to
    just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE.  This probably only
    applies to SCO.  This shows the perils of having internal
    functions with the same name as external library functions :-).

    Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available.

Index: sv.c

    Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had
    Perl_debug_log instead.

    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation

    I wasn't the one who originated this patch.  But it looks like it
    would improve the safety of AV creation.

    Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt.
    'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of
    char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it.

Index: t/io/read.t

    Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
    This is almost certainly a bug-fix.

Index: t/lib/db-btree.t

    Update to DB_File 1.03.

Index: t/lib/db-hash.t

    Update to DB_File 1.03.

Index: t/lib/db-recno.t

    Update to DB_File 1.03.

Index: t/lib/io_sock.t

    From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.m.isar.de>
    Subject: Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t

    io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with.
    It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10
    seconds or until an alarm arrives.

    With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child
    has a chance to ignore the alarm signal.

    I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the
    fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too.

Index: t/op/inc.t

    One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
    minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.

Index: t/op/misc.t

    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
    From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
    Subject: more TIEHANDLE

    This adds support for a READLINE method.

Index: t/op/pack.t

    Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Kenneth Albanowski
    Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)

Index: t/op/ref.t

    From: Gurusamy Sarathy
    Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)

Index: universal.c

    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST
    From: Graham Barr
    Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted

    yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
    is an object, so the patch should be

Index: unixish.h

    Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't
    think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments.

Index: util.c

    One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
    minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.

Index: utils/h2xs.PL

    Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ilya Zakharevich
    Subject: updated h2xs

    Changes:
	a) Docs and examples for -x updated;
	b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h
    unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error
    there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I
    inside -F.
	c) .h file would be scanned only if needed.
	d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ).
	e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be
    included into POD.
	f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated;
	g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that
    xsubpp would probably choke on such guys).

    -x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to
	    ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
    should propagate to CPAN soon).

Index: utils/perlbug.PL

    Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'};

Index: utils/perldoc.PL

    More choices in the pager war.  Unfortunately, we can't rely on
    all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we
    assign a default preference order, since opinions vary.  If the
    user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that
    at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found.

Index: vms/Makefile

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/config.vms

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/descrip.mms

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/ext/filespec.t

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/gen_shrfls.pl

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/perlvms.pod

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/vms.c

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.

Index: vms/vmsish.h

    VMS 5.003_05 Update.


----------------
Version 5.003_04
----------------

This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the changes made in 5.003_03.  The details are described below.
A very brief summary is:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

   -Allow and document permissions for FileHandle::new and
    IO::File::new.
   -glob in Safe compartment used to allow shell access; now
    it's in the same category as `` and system().

o Configure and build enhancements

   -perl library name is again -lperl, not -lperl5 in some cases.
   -Several hint files no longer set -g -DDEBUGGING by default.
    Instead, they just turn off optimization, since that is
    probably what was intended.
   -Include OS/2 and Plan9 updates.

o Bug fixes

   -SEGV with $_[0] and circular references fixed.
   -Ilya's debugger patch.
   -FAKE typeglobs fixed.
   -truncate with file name now works.
   -lval substr() no longer coredumps with refs
   -lval substr now clears lexicals in re-entered scopes.
   -core dump in caller() for signal handler for __DIE__.

o Specific Changes

Here are the specific file-by-file changes.

# This is my patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl5.003_03
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
#   -- Andy Dougherty

# Obsolete perl4 hint file.
rm -f hints/dnix.sh
# Obsolete
rm -f os2/notes

# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
touch t/op/gv.t
chmod +x t/op/gv.t

exit 0


This is patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl version 5.003_03.
This takes you from 5.003_03 to 5.003_04.

To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type

	patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_04.pat

The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below.  This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as

	csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'

Index: Changes

    Updated for 5.003_04.

Index: Configure

    Change name of shared libperl library back to libperl.so.xxx,
    so that a simple -lperl picks up either libperl.a or
    libperl.so.xxx.

    Check if $sh='' in case we've reloaded an old config.sh

Index: INSTALL

    Change name of shared perl library to libperl, instead of
    libperl5.

    Add notes about fragility of shared libperl and the usefulness
    of archlib to separate different binaries.

Index: MANIFEST

    os2/notes removed

    obsolete hints/dnix.sh removed.

    New typeglob test.

Index: Makefile.SH

    For building shared libperl, relocate whole rule to
    inside the if test -f $osname/Makefile.SHs case.

Index: Porting/Glossary

    Updated.

Index: README.os2

    Updated.

Index: av.c

    Subject: Re: SEGV with $_[0] and circular references

    Subject: random cleanup

    This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.

Index: config_H

    Updated.  Note new comments to make AIX happy.

Index: config_h.SH

    Change /*#define../**/ into /*#define../ **/
    to make IBM's xlc compiler shut up about nested comments.
    The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and
    I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead.  In the meantime
    we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls
    of stupid warning messages.  Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth for the fix.

Index: dump.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm

    This patch documents the behavior of FileHandle::{new,open} with
    regard to open modes.  It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
    constants.

    This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: FileHandle::new
    didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode.  Here's a patch.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm

    This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: IO::File::new
    didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode.  Here's a patch.

    This patch documents the behavior of IO::File::{new,open} with
    regard to open modes.  It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
    constants.

Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm

    Subject: Re: glob in Safe compartment allows shell access

    I've moved the glob op into the same opcode tag as backticks and system
    and added a comment.

Index: gv.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: handy.h

    Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.

    Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
    should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
    previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
    symbols the complete set of
    /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
    those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
    Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
    and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
    changed appropriately.

    The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
    limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
    works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.

    Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.

Index: hints/hpux.sh

    Remove the d_bsdpgrp hint.  The defaults should be ok.

Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh

    Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
    unless that's what the user really wants.

Index: hints/mpeix.sh

    Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
    unless that's what the user really wants.

Index: hints/os2.sh

    Fixes for sh vs. bin_sh + cleanup.

Index: hints/ultrix_4.sh

    Don't call optimize=-g, just call optimize=none.  The -g
    pulls in -DDEBUGGING, which might not be wanted.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

    .C$(obj_ext) removed under OS/2 - conflicts with .c$(obj_ext).

Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp

    Fix SCOPE?  (See pod/perlxs.pod).
    Up version number to 1.938.

Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm

    Add a return value to runtests - non-zero if all tests ran ok,
    zero otherwise.

Index: lib/perl5db.pl

    Ilya's debugger patch.
	Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at
	    /opt/perl5.003_03/lib/perl5db.pl line 1423.


    Make perl5db compatible with the recent 'strict refs' enforcement
    in %SIG.

Index: malloc.c

    A patch to perl5.003_02/malloc to give a sensible error abort() message
    in ANSI C, and to give it to stderr instead of stdout.

    Use config_h's STRINGIFY macro instead of pre-ANSI "p".

Index: mg.c

    Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)

    Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
    in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
    so in 5.001n).
    The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
    which might coerce its first arg to a string.

    Sub-critical patch to conceivably fix some %SIG problems. (Shared hash key
    weren't being properly detected by some of the sig magic, but as shared
    hash keys wouldn't normally be used in %SIG it's unlikely this is a
    significant problem.)

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: myconfig

    Update perlio-related variables.

Index: op.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: opcode.h

    Updated.  See opcode.pl.

Index: opcode.pl

    Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)

    The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
    with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
    I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.

    Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
    C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.

Index: os2/Makefile.SHs

    perllib vs. LIBPERL

Index: os2/diff.configure

    Updated.

Index: os2/os2.c

    SH_PATH_INI vs. BIN_SH

Index: os2/os2ish.h

    SH_PATH_INI added (needed to redefine SH_PATH for binary
	    distribution).
    SH_PATH is redefined.

Index: patchlevel.h

    SUBVERSION 4.

Index: perl.h

    Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.

    Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
    should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
    previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
    symbols the complete set of
    /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
    those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
    Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
    and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
    changed appropriately.

    The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
    limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
    works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.

    Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.

Index: perlio.c

    Removes an incorrect prototype for setlinebuf from
    perlio.c because it conflicts with the correct declaration in
    MachTen's stdio.h (and possibly other stdio's as well).

    Secondly, the code in perlio.c is not handling the (!PERLIO_IS_STDIO &
    HAS_F[GS]ETPOS) case.  The patch fixes this omission (in a rather lumpen
    manner).  I don't think this should affect platforms which try to hack a
    different path through the #ifdef forest, but this assertion would benefit
    from testing...

    Dominic Dunlop

Index: plan9/config.plan9

    Updated.

Index: plan9/fndvers

    Updated.

Index: plan9/mkfile

    Updated.

Index: plan9/setup.rc

    Updated.

Index: pod/perldiag.pod

    Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)

    substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
    an lvalue context.
    The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
    first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).

Index: pod/perlxs.pod

    document xsubpp SCOPE:

Index: pp.c

    Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)

    substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
    are !SvOK.  This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
    1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.

    Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)

    substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
    an lvalue context.
    The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
    first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).

    Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.

Index: pp_ctl.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: pp_hot.c

    Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: pp_sys.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: proto.h

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: run.c

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

Index: sv.c

    Subject: random cleanup

    This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.

    Subject: sv_setsv patch

    This patch changes neither behavior nor performance.  However, it does
    reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
    code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().

    From: Chip Salzenberg
    Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY

    When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY".
    Although that flag improves the leak checking, it also breaks
    destruction of global objects, because SVs aren't kept in captive
    arenas any more.

    This patch rectifies the problem by providing an alternative
    method for keeping track of SVs when Perl is compiled for Purify.
    It has no effect on normal operation.


    Add comment about assert(len >=0) when len is unsigned anyway.

Index: t/io/fs.t

    Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)

    The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
    with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
    I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.

    Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
    C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.

    The "not implemented" branch is missing a "\n".

Index: t/op/gv.t

    Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)

    Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
    in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
    so in 5.001n).

    The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
    which might coerce its first arg to a string.

Index: t/op/substr.t


    Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)

    substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
    are !SvOK.  This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
    1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.

    Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)

    substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
    an lvalue context.
    The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
    first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).

Index: toke.c

    Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)

    The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
    with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
    I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.

    Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
    C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.

Index: util.c

    Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 dumps core executing caller() in signal handler for
	    __DIE__ (with patch)

    sv_2pv() might call croak() (which is not prepared to handle that
    when it calls sv_2pv(), itself).  Likewise for warn() (but under
    slightly more esoteric circumstances--mg_get() in sv_2pv() might
    trigger a call to warn()).


    Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.

    PERL_BADLANG is examined by default before issuing a warning during
	    internationalization.

Index: utils/h2xs.PL

    Make leading =head NAME item a paragraph so pod2man finds it.

Index: utils/perldoc.PL

    Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from
    HP-UX nroff -man output.  (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS
    doesn't support the -x option.)


----------------
Version 5.003_03
----------------

Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
process more robust.  The details are described below.  A very brief
summary is:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

   -Support for tied filehandles.

o Configure enhancements

   -How to build and install a shared libperl.so is now documented
    and supported, though it's not the default for most platforms.

o Bug fixes

   -Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.

   -If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
    that can result in null matches, perl no longer coredumps.

   -Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.

   -Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
    rather than extraction time.

o Specific Changes

Here are the specific file-by-file changes.

# This is my patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl5.003_02
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
#   -- Andy Dougherty

# Absorbed into Changes5.002
rm -f Changes.Conf

# Not needed.
rm -f ext/POSIX/mkposixman.pl

# Moved to README.os2.  I'm not sure why the README files are
# here rather than in the appropriate subdirectories.
rm -f os2/README

# Not needed.
rm -f pod/Makefile.PL

# New test for bit ops.
touch t/op/bob.t

# Patches that create new tests don't always make them executable.
chmod +x t/*/*.t

# Create a new directory for Porting and Patching info.
mkdir Porting

exit 0

This is patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl version 5.003_02.
This takes you from 5.003_02 to 5.003_03.

To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type

	patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_03.pat

The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below.  This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as

	csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'

Index: Changes

	Include 5.003_03 change notes.

	Move older change notes to separate files.

Index: Changes5.000

	New file.  Changes from perl4.036 to 5.000.

Index: Changes5.001

	New file.  Changes from 5.000 to 5.001

Index: Changes5.002

	New file.  Changes from 5.001 to 5.002

Index: Changes5.003

	New file.  Changes from 5.002 to 5.003

Index: Configure

	Relaxed warning about ksh on exotic machines.

	Changed usesafe to useopcode.

	Add search for gzip and zip.

	Look more carefully for $sh (the Bourne-ish shell).
	Use that info to set $startsh correctly.

	Change prompts for PerlIO interface.  See INSTALL
	for how this is supposed to work.  The default is
	still the same as in 5.003_02, namely don't use
	any fancy new PerlIO stuff.

	Don't look for sigvec() since we don't actually use it.
	(Plus, it used to print an alarming misleading message about
	race conditions.)

	Look for stdio's _filbuf under the possible names of
	_filbuf, __filbuf, and _fill.

	New $useshrplib variable to control whether we build a shared
	libperl.so.  The name of the library is in $libperl.
	Always install it in $installarchlib/CORE/$libperl.

	Check for <sys/resource.h> and <sys/wait.h> for NetBSD.

	Replace old $altmake stuff with newer autoconf-ish
	$make_set_make, which checks if $make sets $(MAKE).  Now you
	choose an alternate make with sh Configure -Dmake=gmake (or
	whatever).

	Remove 'ln' for the list of essential commands.  Simulate
	it with 'cp' if necessary.

	Change `logname` prompts to handle extra gratuitous spaces in
	Ultrix output.

	Autodetect os2.

	Fix silly bug in checking for fully-qualified names in /etc/hosts.

	Generalize Gconvert tests.  Give correct and more useful
	error messages.

	Use $obj_ext instead of literal '.o' in the dynaloader test.

	Include appropriate header files in bcopy() and memcpy()
	tests.  Note whether memmove is available.

	Check whether struct sigaction works (needed for Solaris 2.5
	with -Xc).

	Include appropriate header files for randbits test.

Index: INSTALL

	Add note about space requirements.

	Update to match Configure changes (Opcode vs. Safe,
	useperlio, useshrplib, etc.)

	Reorganize the structure of some of the hints.

	Miscellaneous clarifications.

Index: MANIFEST

	Updated.  5.003_02 introduced some massive patches, mostly
	due to spacing changes.  I didn't bother to sort them all out;
	I just started with 5.003's MANIEFST.

Index: Makefile.SH

	Support the new simplified shared libperl mechanism.

	Use new $make_set_make directive.

	Remove redundant libperl Make variable.

	Remove unnecessary MAB variable.

	Remove dependency of minitest on lib/Config.pm, since it could
	well have been a failure of configpm that inspired testing
	miniperl in the first place!

Index: Porting/Glossary

	New file describing all the config.sh variables.
	Eventually, I hope to fill this directory with other useful
	stuff.

Index: README.os2

	Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README.

Index: config_H

	Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
	Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
	dependencies in the metaconfig units.

Index: config_h.SH

	Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
	Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
	dependencies in the metaconfig units.

	Include full descriptions of ARCHLIB, OLDARCHLIB, PRIVLIB,
	SITEARCH, and SITELIB.  Previous versions just included the
	~-expanded names (with unhelpful descriptions).  No functionality
	is changed, but maybe it's a little better documented now.

Index: doio.c

	Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h>

Index: doop.c

	No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter.

	Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.

Index: embed.h

	Auto-generated.

Index: embed.pl

	Expand warning at the top.

Index: ext/IO/IO.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs

	Add support for tied filehandles.

Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h

	Change the Mymalloc to match Perl_malloc in perl.h.

Index: ext/util/make_ext

	Typo change.
	Get rid of unused altmake.

Index: global.sym

	Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.

Index: handy.h

	Change safe*alloc functions to have prototypes that
	match the system's malloc and free types.  That is, use
	Malloc_t instead of char *, and Free_t instead of void.
	This is necessary so . . .

	Safefree cast matches type of free() whether it's perl's
	malloc/free or the system's malloc/free.

Index: hints/README.hints

	Remove out-of-date info.

	Document a bit about how hint files work.

Index: hints/aix.sh

	qmaxmem hint doesn't apply to gcc.

Index: hints/dgux.sh

	Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.

Index: hints/dynixptx.sh

	Fix typo in comment.

	Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.

Index: hints/epix.sh

	Use glibpth instead of libpth.  This allows Configure to
	add local directories, such as /opt/local/lib, etc.

Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh

	Include some info on cc -n32 compile.

Index: hints/linux.sh

	Configure now tests gcvt() more thoroughly.

Index: hints/machten_2.sh

	Update where to find dld.

Index: hints/mips.sh

	Use glibpth instead of libpth.

Index: hints/next_3.sh

	Build up $mab dynamically.  Since $mab isn't used anywhere
	anymore, this is useless.  However, $mab was never used for
	next_3.sh anyway, so there's been no change in functionality.

Index: hints/next_4.sh

	Get rid of extraneous isnext_4 variable.  Configure and
	Makefile.SH will use $osname and $osvers instead.

	Build up $mab dynamically based on available architectures.

	Absorb $mab into ccflags and ccdlflags.  I hope that will
	cover everything.  (Configure should automatically remove
	the -arch stuff from cppflags.)

	Configure now knows next4 needs to use a shared libperl.5.so.

	Allow users to use -Dprefix.

Index: hints/os2.sh

	Try to update to reflect newer shared libperl stuff.
	I probably goofed :-).

Index: hints/sco.sh

	Additional notes on using icc.

	Additional flags for dynamic loading.

Index: hints/solaris_2.sh

	Perl.h no longer prefers bcmp, so it's again ok if Configure
	finds them, since perl will prefer the mem* versions anyway.

Index: hints/sunos_4_0.sh

	Don't include <unistd.h>

Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh

	Add brief note about GNU as and ld.

	Don't include <unistd.h>

	Add notes about WHOA THERE messages.

Index: hints/titanos.sh

	Include sfio in libswanted.

	Don't set libpth any more.

Index: hints/umips.sh

	New hint file.

Index: hv.c

	Use memcmp even in cases where ordering doesn't matter.

	Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.

Index: installperl

	Simplify installation of shared libperl.so.

	Avoid reaching Command Failed!!! with /usr/bin/perl.

Index: lib/AutoSplit.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

	Remove MAB references.

	Use 'useshrplib' instead of 'd_shrplib'

Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

	Remove mab references.

Index: lib/FindBin.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: lib/Symbol.pm

	Put back in the BEGIN { require 5.002; }.  The version in
	5.003_02 wouldn't work in 5.002 anyway.  Further, the whole
	point of the construct is to catch 5.001m, so we can't use
	syntax introduced after 5.001m to do that.

Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm

	Remove double 'use strict'.

Index: lib/perl5db.pl

	Add explicit '&' to avoid warnings under strict refs.

Index: lib/sigtrap.pm

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: makedepend.SH

	Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make variables.

Index: mg.c

	Include <unistd.h>

	Use Safefree() macro instead of safefree() function with
	a (possibly) incorrect cast.  The whole point of the
	Safefree() macro is that it does the correct cast for you.


Index: patchlevel.h

	Change to SUBVERSION 3.

Index: perl.c

	Include <unistd.h>

Index: perl.h

	No longer prefer bcmp slightly for comparisons that don't care
	about ordering.

	Rely on Configure setting SH_PATH.

	Change the function name to Pause() instead of pause() to
	avoid potential prototype problems.  (This naming convention
	is similar to the Fwrite and Fflush macros.)

	Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.

	Work around crypt prototype problem on NeXT.

Index: perlio.c

	Fixes to support non-std stdio.

Index: perlio.h

	Try to document the various #defines a bit.  This is far from
	finished.

	Remove a lot of trailing whitespace.  (It's of no consequence, but
	but I'm not going to redo the patch just to put back in the trailing
	whitespace either.)

Index: perlsdio.h

	Fixes to support non-std stdio.

Index: perly.c

	Restore use of Safefree() macro.

Index: perly.c.diff

	Restore use of Safefree() macro.

Index: perly.h

	Delete duplicate line.

Index: plan9/buildinfo

	Update.

Index: pod/perlapio.pod

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: pod/perlipc.pod

	Fix typo.

	Untaint port number.

Index: pod/perlmod.pod

	Fix a minor nit regarding Exporter.

Index: pod/perlre.pod

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: pod/perltie.pod

	Add support for tied filehandles.

Index: pod/perltrap.pod

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: pod/perlxstut.pod

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: pod/pod2man.PL

	Clean up docmentation installation errors.

Index: pp.c

	Add support for tied filehandles.

	If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
	that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.

Index: pp_hot.c

	Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.

	Add support for tied filehandles.

Index: pp_sys.c

	Include <unistd.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <sys/resource.h>.
	(The latter two are especially for NetBSD.)

	Don't assume sys/time.h and sys/select.h can't coexist.

	Use Pause macro.

Index: proto.h

	Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes.

Index: regexec.c

	Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.

Index: sv.c

	Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.

Index: t/lib/opcode.t

	Add support for tied filehandles.

Index: t/op/bop.t

	Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.

Index: t/op/misc.t

	Add support for tied filehandles.

Index: t/op/split.t

	If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
	that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.

Index: toke.c

	Include <unistd.h>.

	Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.

Index: util.c

	Include <unistd.h>.

	Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions.

Index: utils/h2ph.PL

	Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
	rather than extraction time.

Index: writemain.SH

	Remove unnecessary curlies.  (They are a leftover from
	an older auto_init mechanism.)

Index: x2p/Makefile.SH

	Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make.

	Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags.

	Keep 5.003's RCS info.

Index: x2p/a2p.h

	Keep 5.003's RCS info.

Index: x2p/str.c

	Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.


----------------
Version 5.003_02
----------------

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
  - Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
  - Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
  - Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}.
  - UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method.

o Changes in Core Internals
  - PerlIO abstraction added.
    Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO
    mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros.
    Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or
    to use sfio if available.

  - Several bug fixs from perl5-porters
      - Make sources non-ANSI C correct again.
      - SUPER in gv.c
      - Last of shared-hash-key patches
      - eval '(0,1..3)'; # --> SegFault
      - coredumps after simple subsitutes.
      - Correction to UNIVERSAL::VERSION docs.
      - Fixed io_udp test.
      - Fixed another abuse of malloc'ed memory.
  - Enabled DEBUGING_MSTATS whenever perl's malloc() is used.
  - Reverted to default of not hiding perl's malloc (if used).

o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
  - Fixed MakeMaker for static SDBM and builing in a link tree.
  - Upgraded to IO-1.09, and includes latest (still experimental) IO::Select.
  - Documentation/test tweak to DB_File
  - h2xs upgrade to allow use C::Scan module

o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
  - Attempted to re-created 5.003_01's NeXT support with metaconfig units.
  - Updated MANIFEST
  - make minitest now depends on lib/Config.pm, as some of tests require it.
  - Included latest plan9 sub-directory
  - Applied OS/2 patches.
  - Typo patch for VMS.


----------------
Version 5.003_01
----------------

Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
kept simple.  In addition to numerous small bugfixes in the core,
library files, and documentation, this patch contains several
significant revisions, summarized below:

o Visible Changes to Core Functionality

  - A port to Plan9 has been started, and changes are integrated into
    the standard distribution.  As of this release, the Perl core
    and several common extensions are working.

  - A set of basic methods in the UNIVERSAL class have been added to
    the Perl core.  Since UNIVERSAL is an implicit member of every
    class's @ISA, the methods can be called via any object.

  - A mandatory warning has been added for 'declarations' of lexical
    variables using the "my" operator which mask an existing lexical
    variable declared in the same scope, making the previous variable
    inaccessible by its name.

  - The "use" and "require" operators have been extended to allow
    checking of the required module's version.  The "use" operator
    can now be used for an immediate version check of Perl itself.

  - A new "strict" pragma, "strict untie", has been added, which
    produces an error if a tied value is untied when other references
    exist to the internal object implementing the tie.

  - Barewords used as associative array keys (i.e. when specifying
    an associative array element like $foo{__BAR} or on the left
    side of the => operator) may now begin with an underscore as
    well as an alphabetic character.

  - Some of the configuration information previously produced by the
    -v switch has been moved to the -V switch, in order to keep -v
    output concise.

o Changes in Core Internals

  - Symbol table and method lookups have been made faster.

  - Perl subroutines which just return a constant value are now
    optimized at compile time into inline constants.

  - Management of keys for associative arrays has been improved to
    conserve space when the same keys are reused frequently, and
    to pass true Perl values to tie functions, instead of stringified
    representations.

  - Messages normally output to stderr may be directed to another
    stream when Perl is built.  This allows some platforms to
    present diagnostic output in a separate window from normal
    program results.

  - A bug which caused suiperl to fail silently, albeit securely,
    in version 5.003 on some systems has been fixed.

  - Management of Unix-style signal handlers via the %SIG associative
    array has been made safer.

  - Several global C symbols have been renamed to eliminate collisions
    with system C header files or libraries on some platforms.
    Unfortunately, this means that dynamic extensions compiled under
    previous versions of Perl will need to be rebuilt for Perl
    5.003_01.  We're in the process of cleaning up Perl's C
    namespace to make it easier to link Perl with other binaries,
    so this will probably happen again between now and version 5.004.
    After that, we'll do our best to maintain binary compatibility
    between versions.

  - An alternate allocation strategy has been added to Perl's
    optional private memory management routines.  This strategy,
    which may be selected when Perl is built, is designed to
    conserve memory in programs which allocate many small
    chunks of memory with sizes near a power of 2, as is often
    the case in Perl programs.

  - Several memory leaks in the creation and destruction of
    multiple interpreters have been fixed.

o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities

  - The Opcode extension, which allows you to control a program's
    access to Perl operations, has been added to the standard
    distribution.  This extends the work begun in the original
    Safe extension, and subsumes it.  The Safe interface is still
    available.

  - The IO extension, which provides a set of classes for object-
    oriented handling of common I/O tasks, has been added to the
    standard distribution.  The IO classes will form the basis
    for future development of Perl's I/O interface, and will
    subsume the FileHandle class in the near future.  The default
    class to which all Perl I/O handles belong is now IO::Handle,
    rather than FileHandle.

  - The ExtUtils::Embed library module, which provides a set
    of utility function to help in embedding Perl in other
    applications, has been added to the standard distribution.

  - The Fatal library module, which provides a simple interface
    for creating "do-or-die" equivalents of existing functions,
    has been added to the standard distribution.

  - The FindBin library module, which determines the full path
    to the currently executing program, has been added to the
    standard distribution.

  - The DB_File extension, and the Getopt::Long, Test::Harness,
    Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Time::Local and sigtrap library modules
    have been updated to the authors' latest versions.

  - The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when
    determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages.

  - The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated.

  - The standard Perl debugger has been updated, and the information
    provided to the debugger when an XSUB is called has been improved,
    making it possible for alternate debuggers (such as Devel::DProf)
    to do a better job of tracking XSUB calls.

  - The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution
    can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set.

  - The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated.

o Changes in Documentation

  - Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod
    documentation for the core and standard library files

  - Explanations of several core operators have been improved

  - The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents
    extensively revised.

o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support

  - Support for the NeXT platform has been extended through
    NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP 4.0, and now includes the ability to create MABs.

  - Support for OS/2 has been extended as well, and now includes
    options for building a.out binaries.

  - Support for VMS has also been extended, incorporating improved
    processing of file specification strings, optional suppression of
    carriage control interpretation for record-structured files,
    improved support for the -S command line switch, a number of
    VMS-specific bugfixes, and significantly improved performance
    in line-oriented reading of files.

  - Several hints files have been added or updated: aux.sh (updated),
    convexos.sh (updated), irix_4.sh (updated), irix_5.sh (updated),
    irix_6_2.sh (updated), next_3.sh (updated), next_3_2.sh (new),
    next_3_3.sh (new), next_4.sh (new), os2/sh (updated),
    sco.sh (updated), and solaris_2.sh (updated).

  - The test driver for the regression tests now reports when a set
    of tests have been skipped (presumable because the operation
    they're designed to test isn't supported on the current system).
