1For an overview of what's changed in this release, see pod/perldelta.pod. 2 3For the details of changes in previous releases, see the individual 4perlNNNdelta.pod files. For example, pod/perl588delta.pod describes the 5changes between versions 5.8.7 and 5.8.8. 6 7For a list of contributors to perl, see AUTHORS. 8 9If you need a detailed commit history (i.e. descriptions of each 10individual commit), you can view the git version control history online 11at http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git (follow the 'shortlog' link beside 12the relevant tag). Or, you can download a copy of the git repository and 13then run a command like 14 15 git log --name-status v5.12.0..v5.14.0 16 17to view all the changes between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0. 18 19See pod/perlgit.pod for more details on using git and accessing the 20commit history. 21 22In perl releases prior to 2009, the source tarball included a collection 23of Changes files that listed the individual commits that had gone into 24each release. Since these files had become very large, and since the 25same information is now freely available online, it was decided to remove 26them from subsequent releases. 27 28If you need access to these removed files, then they can be be found most 29recently in the 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 tarballs, at 30 31 http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.9.tar.gz 32 http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz 33 34The contents of the files in question can mostly be regenerated using git 35commands. The following table shows the equivalents. Note that the files 36prior to Changes5.005 were not simple lists of commits, so can't be 37recreated just by running the git command. As it happens, even the latter 38ones are not exact equivalents. This is due to a combination of errors in 39the original Changes files, and "impedance mismatches" when the previous 40version control data was imported into git in December 2008. 41 42For example, the Changes5.005 file includes 206 spurious entries from the 43maint5.004 Perforce branch. 44 45Running the following command with the range argument shown in the table 46will produce *approximately* the same list of changes in the specified 47file shown from the listed tarball. 48 49 git log --name-status <range> 50 51 file tarball <range> argument to 'git log' 52 ------------ ------ -------------------------------- 53 Changes5.000 Either N/A 54 Changes5.001 Either perl-5.000..perl-5.001 55 Changes5.002 Either perl-5.001..perl-5.002 56 Changes5.003 Either perl-5.002..perl-5.003 57 Changes5.004 Either perl-5.003..perl-5.004 58 Changes5.005 Either perl-5.004..perl-5.005_03 59 Changes5.6 Either perl-5.005_03..perl-5.6.0 60 Changes5.8 Either perl-5.6.0..perl-5.8.0 61 Changes5.8.1 5.8.9 perl-5.8.0..perl-5.8.1 ^1ede746b 62 Changes5.8.2 5.8.9 perl-5.8.1..perl-5.8.2 63 Changes5.8.3 5.8.9 perl-5.8.2..perl-5.8.3 64 Changes5.8.4 5.8.9 perl-5.8.3..perl-5.8.4 65 Changes5.8.5 5.8.9 perl-5.8.4..perl-5.8.5 ^3a81978b 66 Changes5.8.6 5.8.9 perl-5.8.5..perl-5.8.6 ^498d59dd 67 Changes5.8.7 5.8.9 perl-5.8.6..perl-5.8.7 68 Changes5.8.8 5.8.9 perl-5.8.7..perl-5.8.8 69 Changes 5.8.9 perl-5.8.8..perl-5.8.9 70 Changes 5.10.0 perl-5.8.0..perl-5.10.0 71