ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 824 and ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1004, complete, ready-to-install Perl distributions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
For detailed information or to download these releases, see: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl On Windows and Linux (both 32 and 64-bit) these releases will use the new and more comprehensive PPM repositories found at http://ppm.activestate.com/beta New in ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1004 =================================== * Fix for File::Path::rmtree symlink attack (CVE-2008-2827). * 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. * Tweaks to make the CPAN shell less noisy. * The tkkit libraries used by the Tkx module have been updated with the latest changes from ActiveTcl 8.5.4. * The openssl library linked into the C<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). * The following modules have been added to ActivePerl: BSD-Resource 1.2901 File-Next 1.02 HTML-Template 2.9 mylib 1.02 * 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 New in ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 824 ================================= * Many updates and bug fixes in the Perl internals have been applied. See the Changes file in the source distribution for the complete list. * Minimum system requirements have been changed: Windows 2000 and later are supported Windows versions and Solaris 2.8 is the minimum Solaris version. * PPM v4.3 is now included. This version of PPM should be considerable faster at parsing the F<package.xml> file and in updating the local database. This version also supports installing packages from .ppmx files. * 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. * The tkkit libraries used by the Tkx module have been updated with the latest changes from ActiveTcl 8.5.4. * CVE-2006-4484 has been addressed in Tk. * 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-5.8/site/lib directory isn't writable without 'sudo'. Unfortunately ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib was also used by ActivePerl 5.10, so you could end up with a mixture of 5.8 and 5.10 modules in that directory. This release uses ~/Library/ActivePerl-5.8/lib as a per-user Perl 5.8 specific module area. * On Windows there is a special form of them 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. * The following modules have been added to ActivePerl 5.8.8: Algorithm-Diff 1.1902 Bit-Vector 6.4 BSD-Resource 1.2901 Carp-Clan 6.00 Compress-Raw-Zlib 2.012 Class-Accessor 0.31 Crypt-SSLeay 0.57 Date-Calc 5.4 DBD-CSV 0.22 DBD-ODBC 1.16 DBD-Oracle 1.21 Digest-SHA 5.47 ExtUtils-CBuilder 0.24 File-HomeDir 0.80 File-Next 1.02 File-Which 0.05 GD 2.39 GDGraph 1.4308 GDTextUtil 0.86 HTML-Template 2.9 IO-Compress-Base 2.012 IO-Compress-Zlib 2.012 JSON 2.12 JSON-XS 2.2222 Module-Build 0.2808_01 mylib 1.02 Net-Telnet 3.3 Pod-Escapes 1.04 Pod-Simple 3.07 PPM-Repositories 0.15 SQL-Statement 1.15 Sub-Uplevel 0.1901 Test-Differences 0.48 Test-Exception 0.27 Text-CSV_XS 0.52 Text-Diff 0.35 Text-Glob 0.08 Time-Piece 1.13 version 0.76 WWW-Mechanize 1.34 YAML-LibYAML 0.27 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. * The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions: Archive-Tar 1.32 to 1.38 bignum 0.22 to 0.23 CGI 3.29 to 3.41 Compress-Zlib 1.4201 to 2.012 Data-Dump 1.08 to 1.11 DBI 1.58 to 1.605 Font-AFM 1.19 to 1.20 HTML-Stream 1.55 to 1.59 HTML-Tagset 3.10 to 3.20 IO-Zlib 1.04 to 1.09 libwww-perl 5.808 to 5.814 Math-BigInt 1.82 to 1.89 Math-BigInt-FastCalc 0.15 to 0.19 Math-BigRat 0.18 to 0.22 Math-Complex 1.37 to 1.54 perl-ldap 0.34 to 0.36 Tcl 0.89 to 0.95 Thread-Queue 2.00 to 2.11 Thread-Semaphore 2.01 to 2.09 threads 1.63 to 1.71 threads-shared 1.12 to 1.26 Time-HiRes 1.9707 to 1.9715 Tkx 1.04 to 1.05 URI 1.35 to 1.37 XML-Parser 2.34 to 2.36 XML-Simple 2.16 to 2.18 * The libwin32 module collection has been replaced by its individual modules, each of which has been updated to the latest version from CPAN: Win32-Clipboard 0.55 Win32-Console 0.09 Win32-EventLog 0.076 Win32-File 0.06 Win32-FileSecurity 1.08 Win32-Internet 0.84 Win32-IPC 1.07 Win32-Job 0.03 Win32-NetAdmin 0.11 Win32-NetResource 0.56 Win32-ODBC 0.034 Win32-OLE 0.1709 Win32-PerfLib 0.06 Win32-Pipe 0.024 Win32-Process 0.14 Win32-Registry 0.10 Win32-Service 0.06 Win32-Shortcut 0.07 Win32-Sound 0.49 Win32-TieRegistry 0.25 Win32-WinError 0.03 Win32API-File 0.1001 Win32API-Net 0.12 Win32API-Registry 0.30 Known Issues ============ ActivePerl 5.8.8.824 on Unix (all platforms but Windows) is not compatible with the latest version of the Perl Dev Kit, PDK 7.2. Please stay with ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 until PDK 7.3 has been released if you want to use ActivePerl 5.8.8 with PDK 7. Getting Started =============== Whether you're a first-time user or a long-time fan, our free resources will help you get the most from ActivePerl. Mailing list archives: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl Feedback ======== Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Perl an even better language. For bugs related to ActiveState use: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl&version=1004 For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility. Enjoy! _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
