Archive perldelta 5.43.4

Co-authored-by: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[email protected]>

Author: ericherman

MANIFEST

@@ -5764,6 +5764,7 @@ pod/perl5430delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.43.0
 pod/perl5431delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.43.1
 pod/perl5432delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.43.2
 pod/perl5433delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.43.3
+pod/perl5434delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.43.4
 pod/perl561delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.6.1
 pod/perl56delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.6
 pod/perl581delta.pod			Perl changes in version 5.8.1

Makefile.SH

@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ esac
 
 $spitshell >>$Makefile <<'!NO!SUBS!'
 
-perltoc_pod_prereqs = extra.pods pod/perl5434delta.pod pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perluniprops.pod
+perltoc_pod_prereqs = extra.pods pod/perl5435delta.pod pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perluniprops.pod
 generated_pods = pod/perltoc.pod $(perltoc_pod_prereqs)
 generated_headers = uudmap.h bitcount.h mg_data.h
 
@@ -1147,9 +1147,9 @@ pod/perlintern.pod: $(MINIPERL_EXE) autodoc.pl embed.fnc
 pod/perlmodlib.pod: $(MINIPERL_EXE) pod/perlmodlib.PL MANIFEST
 	$(MINIPERL) pod/perlmodlib.PL -q
 
-pod/perl5434delta.pod: pod/perldelta.pod
-	$(RMS) pod/perl5434delta.pod
-	$(LNS) perldelta.pod pod/perl5434delta.pod
+pod/perl5435delta.pod: pod/perldelta.pod
+	$(RMS) pod/perl5435delta.pod
+	$(LNS) perldelta.pod pod/perl5435delta.pod
 
 extra.pods: $(MINIPERL_EXE)
 	-@test ! -f extra.pods || rm -f `cat extra.pods`

pod/.gitignore

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 /roffitall
 
 # generated
-/perl5434delta.pod
+/perl5435delta.pod
 /perlapi.pod
 /perlintern.pod
 /perlmodlib.pod

pod/perl.pod

@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ aux h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp
 
     perlhist            Perl history records
     perldelta           Perl changes since previous version
+    perl5434delta       Perl changes in version 5.43.4
     perl5433delta       Perl changes in version 5.43.3
     perl5432delta       Perl changes in version 5.43.2
     perl5431delta       Perl changes in version 5.43.1

pod/perl5434delta.pod

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+=encoding utf8
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+perl5434delta - what is new for perl v5.43.4
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This document describes differences between the 5.43.3 release and the 5.43.4
+release.
+
+If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.43.2, first read
+L<perl5433delta>, which describes differences between 5.43.2 and 5.43.3.
+
+=head1 Modules and Pragmata
+
+=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+L<attributes> has been upgraded from version 0.36 to 0.37.
+
+=item *
+
+L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.87 to 1.88.
+
+=item *
+
+L<feature> has been upgraded from version 1.99 to 2.00.  Split POD and code
+and add C<__END__>.  Avoids I/O and parsing 22KB of POD in C<use feature;>.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20250923 to 5.20251022.
+
+=item *
+
+L<SelectSaver> has been upgraded from version 1.02 to 1.03.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Time::Piece> has been upgraded from version 1.3701 to 1.38.
+
+=item *
+
+L<XS::APItest> has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.47.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Platform Support
+
+=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AIX
+
+Thread-safe locale handling has been turned off on all releases due to
+apparent bugs in the underlying operating system support.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+The C<-CA> flag (or equivalently, the C<PERL_UNICODE=A> environment setting)
+tells perl to treat command-line arguments as UTF-8 strings. (See L<perlrun>
+for details.) However, this did not extend to the global variables implicitly
+created by the C<-s> option:
+
+ $ perl -CA -s -e 'printf "%vx\n", $_ for $foo, $ARGV[0]' -- -foo=é é
+ c3.a9
+ e9
+
+Here C<$foo> would end up containing the two-byte UTF-8 representation of
+"LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE", but C<$ARGV[0]> would contain a single
+codepoint corresponding to U+00E9.
+
+This has been fixed: If C<-CA> is in effect, options parsed by C<-s> are
+treated as UTF-8, too. In the example above, C<$foo> and C<$ARGV[0]> now both
+contain C<chr(0xE9)>. [L<GH #23377|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23377>]
+
+=item *
+
+We have long claimed to support identifiers up to about 255 characters
+long.  However this was actually true only for identifiers that
+consisted of only ASCII characters.  The real upper limit was as few as
+64 characters for identifiers written in other languages, for example,
+Chinese or Osage.  Now an identifier in any language may contain at
+least 255 characters.
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed parsing of array names starting with a digit in double-quotish
+context under C<use utf8;>.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Acknowledgements
+
+Perl 5.43.4 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
+5.43.3 and contains approximately 18,000 lines of changes across 170 files
+from 21 authors.
+
+Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
+approximately 7,500 lines of changes to 81 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
+community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
+contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.43.4:
+
+Branislav Zahradník, Daniel Dragan, Elvin Aslanov, Eric Herman, Eugen
+Konkov, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Masahiro
+Iuchi, Paul Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach,
+Samuel Smith, Sevan Janiyan, Sisyphus, Stan Ulbrych, Thibault Duponchelle,
+Tom Wyant, Tony Cook.
+
+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.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
+included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
+helping Perl to flourish.
+
+For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
+see the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
+
+=head1 Reporting Bugs
+
+If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database
+at L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at
+L<https://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
+
+If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
+L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a
+tiny but sufficient test case.
+
+If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
+inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see
+L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
+for details of how to report the issue.
+
+=head1 Give Thanks
+
+If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5,
+you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
+
+    perlthanks
+
+This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
+what changed.
+
+The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
+
+The F<README> file for general stuff.
+
+The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
+
+=cut