Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:34:44 -0500 Resent-Message-Id: <200512302034 DOT jBUKYiNR027110 AT delorie DOT com> X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:24:05 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Message-Id: To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.7-5 Resent-from: "Gerrit P. Haase" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Perl has been updated to 5.8.7-5 NEWS: ===== - This is a bugfix release which includes the official patch for the security issue reported here: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-01.xml http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114113 http://www.dyadsecurity.com/perl-0002.html NEWS in previous release 5.8.7-4: ================================= - inc_version_list="5.8/cygwin 5.8 cygwin" added to Policy.sh to work around an @INC problem reported here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00098.html - modules updated/version: Archive-Tar-1.26, IO-String-1.07, Proc-ProcessTable-0.40, Compress-Bzip2-2.09, Compress-Zlib-1.41 - new module included: Text-Diff-0.35 - perldoc.com seems to be down, new website with docs is now available at http://perldoc.perl.org/. OLDER NEWS ========== This (5.8.7-3) is a bugfix release: - Test::Harness problem when running testsuites for modules from the command line where every second test breaks, this should work ok now. - Using the system malloc() now because the perl malloc() implementation caused perl to crash when more than 384 MB memory is used Release 5.8.7-1+2: - Now using --enable-auto-image-base to link DLL and extensions. This should address the problem with loading extension DLLs in subprocesses. - New builtin functions: Cygwin::winpid_to_pid, Cygwin::pid_to_winpid - Configured with -Dusesitecustomize. See also "-f" in perlrun: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlrun.pod#%2Df Extensions already included in this distribution: Compress-Zlib-1.41 Compress-Bzip2-2.09 IO-Zlib-1.04 IO-String-1.07 Text-Diff-0.35 Archive-Tar-1.26 MD5-2.03 Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 Net-Telnet-3.03 TermReadKey-2.30 XML-Parser-2.34 Official Perl 5.8.7 announcement: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2005/perl-5.8.7.html 5.8.7 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perl587delta.pod for the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly. DESCRIPTION =========== As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment. Canonical website: http://www.perl.org/ UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'perl' from the 'Interpreters' category, if you install it for the first time, click on the 'skip' field next to 'perl' until '5.8.7-5' is displayed. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Gerrit P. Haase -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/