1=encoding utf8 2 3=head1 NAME 4 5perl5341delta - what is new for perl v5.34.1 6 7=head1 DESCRIPTION 8 9This document describes differences between the 5.34.0 release and the 5.34.1 10release. 11 12If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.33.0, first read 13L<perl5340delta>, which describes differences between 5.33.0 and 5.34.0. 14 15=head1 Incompatible Changes 16 17There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0. If any exist, 18they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See 19L</Reporting Bugs> below. 20 21=head1 Modules and Pragmata 22 23=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata 24 25=over 4 26 27=item * 28 29L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.56 to 1.57. 30 31=item * 32 33L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 3.08 to 3.08_01. 34 35=item * 36 37L<GDBM_File> has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.19_01. 38 39=item * 40 41L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to 5.20220313. 42 43=item * 44 45L<perl5db.pl> has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.60_01. 46 47=back 48 49=head1 Testing 50 51Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this 52release. 53 54=head2 Platform-Specific Notes 55 56=over 4 57 58=item Windows 59 60=over 4 61 62=item * 63 64Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 65(containing Visual C++ 14.3) has been added. 66 67=back 68 69=back 70 71=head1 Selected Bug Fixes 72 73=over 4 74 75=item * 76 77B::Deparse now correctly handles try/catch blocks with more complex scopes. 78[L<GH #18874|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18874>] 79 80=item * 81 82try/catch now correctly returns the last evaluated expression when the catch 83block has more than one statement. [L<GH #18855|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18855>] 84 85=back 86 87=head1 Acknowledgements 88 89Perl 5.34.1 represents approximately 10 months of development since Perl 5.34.0 90and contains approximately 4,600 lines of changes across 60 files from 23 91authors. 92 93Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were 94approximately 1,100 lines of changes to 18 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. 95 96Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community 97of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the 98improvements that became Perl 5.34.1: 99 100Andrew Fresh, Atsushi Sugawara, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, Hugo van der 101Sanden, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Leon Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max 102Maischein, Michiel Beijen, Neil Bowers, Nicolas R., Paul Evans, Renee Baecker, 103Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X, Sergey Poznyakoff, Steve Hay, Tomasz 104Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton. 105 106The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated 107from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of 108the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug 109tracker. 110 111Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules 112included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for 113helping Perl to flourish. 114 115For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see 116the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution. 117 118=head1 Reporting Bugs 119 120If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database 121at L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at 122L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page. 123 124If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at 125L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a 126tiny but sufficient test case. 127 128If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it 129inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see 130L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> 131for details of how to report the issue. 132 133=head1 Give Thanks 134 135If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, 136you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program: 137 138 perlthanks 139 140This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks. 141 142=head1 SEE ALSO 143 144The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on 145what changed. 146 147The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. 148 149The F<README> file for general stuff. 150 151The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. 152 153=cut 154