perl-5.30.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.30.2

This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2 release.

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0.

Updated Modules and Pragmata

• Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.
• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20191110 to 5.20200314.

Documentation

Changes to Existing Documentation

• We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes listed in this document.

Configuration and Compilation

• GCC 10 is now supported by Configure.

Testing

• Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release.

Selected Bug Fixes

• printf() or sprintf() with the C<%n> format no longer cause a panic on debugging builds, or report an incorrectly cached length value when producing UTF8 flagged strings.

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

• A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.

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

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

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 11802.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed