1=encoding utf8 2 3=head1 NAME 4 5perl5242delta - what is new for perl v5.24.2 6 7=head1 DESCRIPTION 8 9This document describes differences between the 5.24.1 release and the 5.24.2 10release. 11 12If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read 13L<perl5241delta>, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.24.1. 14 15=head1 Security 16 17=head2 Improved handling of '.' in @INC in base.pm 18 19The handling of (the removal of) C<'.'> in C<@INC> in L<base> has been 20improved. This resolves some problematic behaviour in the approach taken in 21Perl 5.24.1, which is probably best described in the following two threads on 22the Perl 5 Porters mailing list: 23L<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238991.html>, 24L<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240297.html>. 25 26=head2 "Escaped" colons and relative paths in PATH 27 28On Unix systems, Perl treats any relative paths in the PATH environment 29variable as tainted when starting a new process. Previously, it was allowing a 30backslash to escape a colon (unlike the OS), consequently allowing relative 31paths to be considered safe if the PATH was set to something like C</\:.>. The 32check has been fixed to treat C<.> as tainted in that example. 33 34=head1 Modules and Pragmata 35 36=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata 37 38=over 4 39 40=item * 41 42L<base> has been upgraded from version 2.23 to 2.23_01. 43 44=item * 45 46L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20170114_24 to 5.20170715_24. 47 48=back 49 50=head1 Selected Bug Fixes 51 52=over 4 53 54=item * 55 56Fixed a crash with C<s///l> where it thought it was dealing with UTF-8 when it 57wasn't. 58L<[perl #129038]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129038> 59 60=back 61 62=head1 Acknowledgements 63 64Perl 5.24.2 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl 5.24.1 65and contains approximately 2,500 lines of changes across 53 files from 18 66authors. 67 68Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were 69approximately 960 lines of changes to 17 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. 70 71Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community 72of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed 73the improvements that became Perl 5.24.2: 74 75Aaron Crane, Abigail, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan 76Collins, David Mitchell, Eric Herman, Father Chrysostomos, James E Keenan, Karl 77Williamson, Lukas Mai, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Sawyer X, Stevan Little, 78Steve Hay, Tony Cook, Yves Orton. 79 80The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated 81from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of 82the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug 83tracker. 84 85Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules 86included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for 87helping Perl to flourish. 88 89For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see 90the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution. 91 92=head1 Reporting Bugs 93 94If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently 95posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at 96L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at 97L<http://www.perl.org/> , the Perl Home Page. 98 99If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug> program 100included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but 101sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of C<perl -V>, 102will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team. 103 104If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it 105inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see 106L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> 107for details of how to report the issue. 108 109=head1 SEE ALSO 110 111The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on 112what changed. 113 114The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. 115 116The F<README> file for general stuff. 117 118The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. 119 120=cut 121