CONTENTS

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• Incompatible Changes
• Core Enhancements
• Modules and Pragmata
• Utility Changes
• Performance Enhancements
• Selected Bug Fixes
• New or Changed Diagnostics
• Changed Internals
• New Tests
• Reporting Bugs
• SEE ALSO

#NAME

perl586delta - what is new for perl v5.8.6

#DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.8.5 release and the 5.8.6 release.

#Incompatible Changes

There are no changes incompatible with 5.8.5.

#Core Enhancements

The perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded scripts.

On Win32, Perl can now use non-IFS compatible LSPs, which allows Perl to work in conjunction with firewalls such as McAfee Guardian. For full details see the file README.win32, particularly if you're running Win95.

#Modules and Pragmata

• With the base pragma, an intermediate class with no fields used to messes up private fields in the base class. This has been fixed.

• Cwd upgraded to version 3.01 (as part of the new PathTools distribution)

• Devel::PPPort upgraded to version 3.03

• File::Spec upgraded to version 3.01 (as part of the new PathTools distribution)

• Encode upgraded to version 2.08

• ExtUtils::MakeMaker remains at version 6.17, as later stable releases currently available on CPAN have some issues with core modules on some core platforms.

• I18N::LangTags upgraded to version 0.35

• Math::BigInt upgraded to version 1.73

• Math::BigRat upgraded to version 0.13

• MIME::Base64 upgraded to version 3.05

• POSIX::sigprocmask function can now retrieve the current signal mask without also setting it.

• Time::HiRes upgraded to version 1.65

#Utility Changes

Perl has a new -dt command-line flag, which enables threads support in the debugger.

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