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For the latest information on ActivePerl, please see:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl/
Bug Fixes and Changes since build 1003
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Fix for File::Path::rmtree symlink attack (CVE-2008-2827).
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PPM v4.3 is now included. This version of PPM should be considerable
faster at parsing the package.xml file and in updating the local
database. This version also supports installing packages from
.ppmx files.
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PPM on Windows and Linux will use the "new" ActiveState PPM
repositories currently at http://ppm.activestate.com/beta which have a
bigger selection of modules available and will allow updating of
bundled core modules when updates become available.
The new repositories are configured on the server side; other
platforms will be switched to the new repositories once they become
available for them automatically.
The new PPM repositories include both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for
ActivePerl 5.10 (only for Windows and Linux right now).
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Updated Net::Ping from 2.33 to 2.35 to make it less noisy.
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Tweaks to make the CPAN shell less noisy.
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The tkkit libraries used by the Tkx module have been updated with
the latest changes from ActiveTcl 8.5.4.
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The openssl library linked into the Crypt-SSLeay module has been
updated to version 0.9.8h (was 0.9.8g). This upgrade fixes two
security flaws; see http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt
(CVE-2008-0891 and CVE-2008-0891).
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The following modules have been added to ActivePerl:
BSD-Resource 1.2901
File-Next 1.02
HTML-Template 2.9
mylib 1.02
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The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest
versions:
bignum 0.22 to 0.23
CGI 3.29 to 3.41
Compress-Raw-Zlib 2.008 to 2.012
Compress-Zlib 2.008 to 2.012
Data-Dump 1.08 to 1.11
DBD-ODBC 1.15 to 1.16
DBI 1.604 to 1.607
Digest-SHA 5.45 to 5.47
File-HomeDir 0.69 to 0.80
Font-AFM 1.19 to 1.20
HTML-Stream 1.55 to 1.59
IO-Compress-Base 2.008 to 2.012
IO-Compress-Zlib 2.008 to 2.012
IO-Zlib 1.07 to 1.09
JSON 2.09 to 2.12
JSON-XS 2.2 to 2.2222
libwww-perl 5.812 to 5.814
Math-BigInt 1.88 to 1.89
Math-BigInt-FastCalc 0.16 to 0.19
Math-BigRat 0.21 to 0.22
Math-Complex 1.37 to 1.54
Pod-Simple 3.05 to 3.07
PPM-Repositories 0.14 to 0.15
Tcl 0.89 to 0.95
Test-Differences 0.47 to 0.48
Text-CSV_XS 0.45 to 0.52
Thread-Queue 2.00 to 2.11
Thread-Semaphore 2.01 to 2.09
threads 1.67 to 1.71
threads-shared 1.14 to 1.26
Time-HiRes 1.9711 to 1.9715
Time-Piece 1.12 to 1.13
Tkx 1.04 to 1.05
URI 1.36 to 1.37
version 0.74 to 0.76
Win32-Clipboard 0.53 to 0.55
Win32-Console 0.08 to 0.09
Win32-EventLog 0.075 to 0.076
Win32-FileSecurity 1.05 to 1.08
Win32-Internet 0.082 to 0.084
Win32-Job 0.02 to 0.03
Win32-NetAdmin 0.09 to 0.11
Win32-NetResource 0.054 to 0.055
Win32-ODBC 0.033 to 0.034
Win32-Pipe 0.023 to 0.024
Win32-Process 0.12 to 0.14
Win32-Registry 0.08 to 0.10
Win32-Shortcut 0.06 to 0.07
Win32-Sound 0.47 to 0.49
Win32-WinError 0.02 to 0.03
Win32API-Registry 0.29 to 0.30
YAML-LibYAML 0.26 to 0.27
Bug Fixes and Changes since build 1002
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ActivePerl::Config on Windows now dynamically sets the
$Config{ccversion} to the version of cl.exe. This allows
ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate and embed manifest files into
extension DLL when required by the specific version of the C compiler.
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The GCC support for Windows in ActivePerl::Config now adds the
-mms-bitfields option to the ccflags when compiling with GCC.
This forces identical struct layouts with Visual C++, which is used to
compile ActivePerl itself. This has become important because core
Perl 5.10 now uses bit-fields for some important structures.
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On OS X the supplied sitecustomize.pl script adds the
~/Library/ActivePerl/lib directory to @INC, and PPM will install
into this directory by default because the
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib directory isn't writable
without sudo. Unfortunately ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib was also
used by ActivePerl 5.8, so you could end up with a mixture of 5.8 and
5.10 modules in that directory. This release uses
~/Library/ActivePerl-5.10/lib as a per-user Perl 5.10 specific
module area.
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Signal handling code would segfault with some Linux kernel and glibc
versions. This problem has been fixed.
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On Windows there is a special form of the system() function to start
processes asynchronously: system(1, $cmd). It returns the
process id instead of the exit status so that the spawning application
can eventually use waitpid() to wait for the external process to
terminate. Previous Perl releases only returned the lower 16 bits of
the process id; this version returns all 32 bits.
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The following modules have been added to ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003:
Algorithm-Diff-1.1902
Bit-Vector-6.4
Carp-Clan-6.00
Class-Accessor-0.31
Crypt-SSLeay-0.57
DBD-CSV-0.22
DBD-ODBC-1.15
DBD-Oracle-1.21
Date-Calc-5.4
File-HomeDir-0.69
File-Which-0.05
GD-2.39
GD-Graph-1.4308
GD-Text-0.86
JSON-2.09
JSON-XS-2.2
Net-Telnet-3.03
PPM-Repositories-0.14
SQL-Statement-1.15
Sub-Uplevel-0.1901
Test-Differences-0.47
Test-Exception-0.27
Text-CSV_XS-0.45
Text-Diff-0.35
Text-Glob-0.08
WWW-Mechanize-1.34-r1
Win32-API-0.55
YAML-LibYAML-0.26
The DBD::Oracle module is only included in the 32-bit releases of
ActivePerl for Windows and Linux. It does not include the Oracle
client libraries; instead it requires that either the regular client
libraries or the Oracle Instant Client is already installed and
configured on the system.
ActiveState recommends DBI and DBD::ODBC for accessing databases
using ODBC. The Win32::ODBC module continues to be provided for
backwards compatibility, but new code should exclusively use
DBD::ODBC.
The PPM-Repositories module supplies a list of PPM repositories
provided by sources outside ActiveState. It makes it easier to
discover and configure additional repositories in PPM. For example
you can display a list of repositories available for the current
platform with:
ppm repo suggest
Adding e.g. the University of Winnipeg repository maintained by Randy
Kobes is then as easy as:
ppm repo add uwinnipeg
The PPM-Repositories list is used by the PPM GUI client as well.
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The following modules have been updated to their latest version:
DBI upgraded from 1.601 to 1.604
HTML-Tagset upgraded from 3.10 to 3.20
LWP upgraded from 5.808 to 5.812-r1
URI upgraded from 1.35 to 1.36
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The libwin32 module collection has been replaced by its individual
modules. This will make it easier to update these modules via PPM
in the future:
Win32-Clipboard
Win32-Console
Win32-EventLog
Win32-File
Win32-FileSecurity
Win32-IPC
Win32-Internet
Win32-Job
Win32-NetAdmin
Win32-NetResource
Win32-ODBC
Win32-OLE
Win32-PerfLib
Win32-Pipe
Win32-Process
Win32-Registry
Win32-Service
Win32-Shortcut
Win32-Sound
Win32-TieRegistry
Win32-WinError
Win32API-File
Win32API-Net
Win32API-Registry
Bug Fixes and Changes since build 1001
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Build 1002 fixes a problem with the Perl-for-ISAPI, PerlEz, PerlEx and
PerlScript extensions (they do not work at all in build 1001). All
these extensions are available in the 32-bit Windows release only.
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This build re-enables the sitecustomize.pl feature in the non-Windows
builds.
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The tkkit libraries used by the Tkx module have been updated with
the latest changes from ActiveTcl 8.4. For Mac OS X this includes
specific fixes for OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
What's new in the 1000 Series
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This build corresponds to the Perl 5.10.0 source code release.
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The 1000 series builds of ActivePerl are not binary compatible with
builds in the 600 or 800 series. Any extensions built using binaries
from the ActivePerl 600 or 800 series will need to be recompiled.
Note especially that this applies to PPM packages that may have been
built for 600 or 800 series builds.
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Significant changes that have occurred in the 5.10.0 release
are documented in the perl5100delta manpage.
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The Time::Local module has been fixed to work properly with 64-bit
versions of ActivePerl for dates beyond 2038.
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The limit on the number of sockets that can be specified in a single
select() call on Windows has been increased from about 64 to over 2000.
Please note though that using select() with a large number of sockets
on Windows is rather slow.
This build is based on the first release candidate of the Perl 5.10
source code release. Since Perl 5.10 is not yet complete, this build
is designated as a Beta and will be followed by a final build once
Perl 5.10 is officially released.
Please use this beta build to try out new features in Perl 5.10 and to
test source level compatibility of your existing Perl code under this
new release (note that Perl 5.10 is not binary compatible to earlier
releases).
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