From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12596 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2004 13:21:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Received: (qmail 8131 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 13:13:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:21:00 -0000 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <1651398653697.20040820151304@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: perl-5.8.5-3 Resent-from: "Gerrit P. Haase" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 Perl has been updated to 5.8.5-3 NEWS ==== - This release fixes a packaging bug, Compress::Zlib wasn't included in previous 5.8.5 packages due to this buildscript bug. - Moved the distributed addon extension under from site_perl to vendor_perl library path. OLDS ==== This is a bugfix release. - fixed DB_file extension bug (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl5-porters/2146936) - added extension XML::Parser, the libexpat interface OLDER OLDS ========== Cygwin specific changes: - IPC support is now enabled, however to make use of it, it is required to have cygserver running, see the cygserver README in /usr/doc/Cygwin how to setup cygserver. - libraries without a static archive are recognised by MakeMaker now. - there are still some unresolved issues with PERLIO, best bet is to define PERLIO=perlio in your environment, with this environment setting all 881 tests are passing when running on NTFS. - 5.8.5 should be binary compatible with 5.8.2, if you are seeing problems with older extensions, please try to recompile these at first. Perl announcements: perl-5.8.5: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.5.html 5.8.5 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.5/pod/perl585delta.pod for the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly. perl-5.8.4: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.4.html 5.8.4 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. This release updates Perl to the Unicode Character Database, Version 4.0.1, and fixes some minor errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. It provides optimisations for Unicode case conversion functions, map and sort, and on most platforms now provides protection against memory wrapping attacks. Please see the perldelta http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.4/pod/perl584delta.pod for the full details. perl-5.8.3: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.3.html 5.8.3 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes, including eliminating a couple of errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. Please see the perldelta for the full details: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.3/pod/perl583delta.pod OLDEST OLDS =========== perl-5.8.2: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2003/perl-5.8.2.html 5.8.2 is being released to fix minor binary incompatibilities discovered between 5.8.1 and 5.8.0. 5.8.2 is fully binary compatible with 5.8.0, and wherever possible also binary compatible with 5.8.1. The release also provides other minor bugfixes, including several for ithreads. Please see the perldelta for the full details: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.2/pod/perldelta.pod DESCRIPTION =========== As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment. Canonical website: http://www.perl.org/ UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'perl' from the 'Libs' category, if you install it for the first time, click on the 'skip' field next to 'perl' until '5.8.5-1' is displayed. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Gerrit P. Haase -- =^..^=