Ubuntu Manpage: perl5341delta - what is new for perl v5.34.1

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NAME

       perl5341delta - what is new for perl v5.34.1

DESCRIPTION

       This document describes differences between the 5.34.0 release and the 5.34.1 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.33.0, first read perl5340delta, which describes
       differences between 5.33.0 and 5.34.0.

Incompatible Changes

       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0.  If any exist, they are bugs, and we request
       that you submit a report.  See "Reporting Bugs" below.

Modules and Pragmata

   Updated Modules and Pragmata
       •   B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.56 to 1.57.

       •   Encode has been upgraded from version 3.08 to 3.08_01.

       •   GDBM_File has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.19_01.

       •   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to 5.20220313.

       •   perl5db.pl has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.60_01.

Testing

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

   Platform-Specific Notes
       Windows
           •   Support  for  compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (containing Visual C++
               14.3) has been added.

Selected Bug Fixes

       •   B::Deparse  now  correctly  handles  try/catch  blocks  with  more  complex   scopes.    [GH   #18874
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18874>]

       •   try/catch  now correctly returns the last evaluated expression when the catch block has more than one
           statement. [GH #18855 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18855>]

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.34.1 represents approximately 10 months of development since Perl 5.34.0 and contains
approximately 4,600 lines of changes across 60 files from 23 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 1,100 lines of
changes to 18 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers.
The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.34.1:

Andrew Fresh, Atsushi Sugawara, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan,
Karen Etheridge, Leon Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michiel Beijen, Neil Bowers, Nicolas
R., Paul Evans, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X, Sergey Poznyakoff, Steve Hay,
Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control
history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core.
We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.

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

Reporting Bugs

       If  you  find  what  you   think   is   a   bug,   you   might   check   the   perl   bug   database   at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.   There  may  also  be information at <http://www.perl.org/>, the
       Perl Home Page.

       If    you    believe    you    have    an    unreported    bug,    please    open     an     issue     at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.   Be  sure  to  trim  your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test
       case.

       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send  to  a  public
       issue  tracker,  then  see  "SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
       report the issue.

Give Thanks

       If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by running  the
       "perlthanks" program:

           perlthanks

       This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.