Changes for version v1.8.6 - 2026-06-09
- Test-only maintenance release; no changes to the bundled CLDR data.
- Reduced the default CPAN Testers workload in t/01.locale-data.t by making the most expensive unbounded CLDR scans author-only. Methods called without arguments that return every row of a CLDR table are now bypassed in smoke environments. On old hardware such as FreeBSD 10.1 (vintage 2014) these exhaustive scans can take too much time an cause a SIGKILL.
- Kept the exhaustive locale-data checks available under AUTHOR_TESTING for release validation.
- Increased SQLite's per-connection page cache to 64 MiB for the bundled CLDR database, reducing repeated disk I/O during large lookup batches and exhaustive test runs.
- Added diagnostic handling when SQLite PRAGMA setup fails, without making cache tuning fatal.
Documentation
Boolean Representation Class
Locale Unicode Data Exception Class
Build CLDR SQLite Database
Modules
Unicode CLDR SQL Data
Provides
in lib/Locale/Unicode/Data.pm
in lib/Locale/Unicode/Data.pm