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perl5163delta(1)


NAME

   perl5163delta - what is new for perl v5.16.3

DESCRIPTION

   This document describes differences between the 5.16.2 release and the
   5.16.3 release.

   If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.1, first read
   perl5162delta, which describes differences between 5.16.1 and 5.16.2.

Core Enhancements

   No changes since 5.16.0.

Security

   This release contains one major and a number of minor security fixes.
   These latter are included mainly to allow the test suite to pass
   cleanly with the clang compiler's address sanitizer facility.

   CVE-2013-1667: memory exhaustion with arbitrary hash keys
   With a carefully crafted set of hash keys (for example arguments on a
   URL), it is possible to cause a hash to consume a large amount of
   memory and CPU, and thus possibly to achieve a Denial-of-Service.

   This problem has been fixed.

   wrap-around with IO on long strings
   Reading or writing strings greater than 2**31 bytes in size could
   segfault due to integer wraparound.

   This problem has been fixed.

   memory leak in Encode
   The UTF-8 encoding implementation in Encode.xs had a memory leak which
   has been fixed.

Incompatible Changes

   There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0. If any
   exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.

Deprecations

   There have been no deprecations since 5.16.0.

Modules and Pragmata

   Updated Modules and Pragmata
   *   Encode has been upgraded from version 2.44 to version 2.44_01.

   *   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.76 to version
       2.76_02.

   *   XS::APItest has been upgraded from version 0.38 to version 0.39.

Known Problems

   None.

Acknowledgements

   Perl 5.16.3 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl
   5.16.2 and contains approximately 870 lines of changes across 39 files
   from 7 authors.

   Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
   community of users and developers. The following people are known to
   have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.16.3:

   Andy Dougherty, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dave Rolsky, David Mitchell,
   Michael Schroeder, Ricardo Signes, Yves Orton.

   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.

   For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
   please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

Reporting Bugs

   If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
   recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug
   database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ .  There may also be
   information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.

   If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug
   program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down to a
   tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the output
   of "perl -V", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by
   the Perl porting team.

   If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
   inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please
   send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed
   subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core
   committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues,
   figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to
   mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is
   supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl
   core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.

SEE ALSO

   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.



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