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Changes for version 0.49 - 2021-08-06

  • CHANGES
    • Provide $XSAPI_VERSION to allow non-API-breaking changes to be made without disturbing compiled 3rd party modules
    • Better searching for Pad.so in t/99exported-symbols.t (thanks ppisar@redhat.com) (RT138320)
    • Gain a (small) runtime performance boost by remembering to set PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT
  • BUGFIXES
    • Ignore some internal linker symbols in t/99exported-symbols.t (RT138315)
    • Remember to bump the version requirement of XS::Parse::Keyword in the XS source (RT138318)
    • Make slots visible to string-eval(), PadWalker, perl -d, etc.. (RT138399)

Modules

a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
meta-object representation of a Object::Pad class
meta-object representation of a method of a Object::Pad class
meta-object representation of data slot of a Object::Pad class