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142 lines
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=encoding utf8
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=head1 NAME
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perl5281delta - what is new for perl v5.28.1
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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This document describes differences between the 5.28.0 release and the 5.28.1
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release.
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If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.26.0, first read
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L<perl5280delta>, which describes differences between 5.26.0 and 5.28.0.
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=head1 Security
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=head2 [CVE-2018-18311] Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow and segmentation fault
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Integer arithmetic in C<Perl_my_setenv()> could wrap when the combined length
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of the environment variable name and value exceeded around 0x7fffffff. This
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could lead to writing beyond the end of an allocated buffer with attacker
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supplied data.
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L<[perl #133204]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133204>
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=head2 [CVE-2018-18312] Heap-buffer-overflow write in S_regatom (regcomp.c)
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A crafted regular expression could cause heap-buffer-overflow write during
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compilation, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution.
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L<[perl #133423]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133423>
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=head1 Incompatible Changes
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There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.28.0. If any exist,
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they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See
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L</Reporting Bugs> below.
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=head1 Modules and Pragmata
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=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
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=over 4
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=item *
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L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20180622 to 5.20181129_28.
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=back
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=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
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=over 4
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=item *
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Perl 5.28 introduced an C<index()> optimization when comparing to -1 (or
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indirectly, e.g. >= 0). When this optimization was triggered inside a C<when>
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clause it caused a warning ("Argument %s isn't numeric in smart match"). This
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has now been fixed.
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L<[perl #133368]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133368>
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=item *
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Matching of decimal digits in script runs, introduced in Perl 5.28, had a bug
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that led to C<"1\N{THAI DIGIT FIVE}"> matching C</^(*sr:\d+)$/> when it should
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not. This has now been fixed.
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=item *
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The new in-place editing code no longer leaks directory handles.
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L<[perl #133314]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133314>
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=back
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=head1 Acknowledgements
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Perl 5.28.1 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.28.0
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and contains approximately 6,100 lines of changes across 44 files from 12
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authors.
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Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
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approximately 700 lines of changes to 12 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
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Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community
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of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed
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the improvements that became Perl 5.28.1:
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Aaron Crane, Abigail, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David
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Mitchell, James E Keenan, John SJ Anderson, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson,
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Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
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The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
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from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
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the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
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tracker.
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Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
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included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
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helping Perl to flourish.
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For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
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the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
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=head1 Reporting Bugs
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If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database
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at L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at
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L<http://www.perl.org/> , the Perl Home Page.
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If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug> program
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included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but
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sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of C<perl -V>,
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will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
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If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
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inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see
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L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
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for details of how to report the issue.
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=head1 Give Thanks
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If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5,
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you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
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perlthanks
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This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
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what changed.
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The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
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The F<README> file for general stuff.
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The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
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=cut
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