perldelta - what is new for perl v5.31.11
This document describes differences between the 5.30.0 release and the 5.31.11 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.28.0, first read perl5300delta, which describes differences between 5.28.0 and 5.30.0.
B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.52 to 1.53.
charnames has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.47.
DynaLoader has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.47.
Encode has been upgraded from version 3.03 to 3.04.
IPC::Open3 has been upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.
Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20200220 to 5.20200428.
Opcode has been upgraded from version 1.45 to 1.47.
open has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12.
PerlIO has been upgraded from version 1.10 to 1.11.
POSIX has been upgraded from version 1.92 to 1.93.
re has been upgraded from version 0.38 to 0.39.
Storable has been upgraded from version 3.19 to 3.20.
Test::Simple has been upgraded from version 1.302171 to 1.302175.
Time::Piece has been upgraded from version 1.33 to 1.3401.
Unicode::UCD has been upgraded from version 0.74 to 0.75.
warnings has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.47.
XS::APItest has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.09.
Perl 5.31.11 represents approximately 6 weeks of development since Perl 5.31.10 and contains approximately 3,200 lines of changes across 170 files from 18 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 1,200 lines of changes to 110 .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 5.31.11:
Atsushi Sugawara, Chad Granum, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Jason McIntosh, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Ricardo Signes, Samuel Smith, Sawyer X, Sisyphus, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Zefram.
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.
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.
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.
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.
To install blib, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm blib
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install blib
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.