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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 5.40.0nb1, Package name: perl-5.40.0nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy
to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both
procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in
support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive
collections of third-party modules.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: perl-64bitauto, threads

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   2024-11-20 08:35:44 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl5: remove workaround for /self/proc/exe being '/'

The patch is from 2008, and according to martin@ on current-users@,
the problem was fixed in 2007 in sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_vnops.c
rev 1.152). If the problem is still there, please file a NetBSD bug
report.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2024-11-19 22:17:32 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
perl5: add link to upstream bug report
   2024-11-19 22:02:21 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
perl5: stop two she-bang replacements that broke tests

after discussion with upstream

pkglint cleanups while here.
   2024-11-16 13:08:07 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2504) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl 5.40
   2024-11-16 12:55:58 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
perl5: pkglint -F
   2024-11-16 12:54:24 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package updated
Log message:
perl: update to 5.40.0.

Core Enhancements

    New __CLASS__ Keyword
    :reader attribute for field variables
    Permit a space in -M command-line option
    Restrictions to use VERSION declarations
    New builtin::inf and builtin::nan functions (experimental)
    New ^^ logical xor operator
    try/catch feature is no longer experimental
    for iterating over multiple values at a time is no longer experimental
    builtin module is no longer experimental
    The :5.40 feature bundle adds try
    use v5.40; imports builtin functions

Security

    CVE-2023-47038 - Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode property
    CVE-2023-47039 - Perl for Windows binary hijacking vulnerability

Incompatible Changes

    reset EXPR now calls set-magic on scalars
    Calling the import method of an unknown package produces a warning
    return no longer allows an indirect object
    Class barewords no longer resolved as file handles in method calls under no \ 
feature "bareword_filehandles"
   2024-01-19 01:01:35 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
lang/perl5: fix typo in documentation about PERL5_PACKLIST
   2024-01-19 00:49:33 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
lang/perl5: add show-all-perl5-packlist target for debugging