ActiveState has released ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 today. It fixes
a number of serious issues that have been found in the 816 release:
* Restored binary compatibility to previous releases.
* Fixed several bugs on Windows related to GUI applications and
signal handling. These bugs were introduced in build 816.
* Updated threads and threads::shared modules to fix resource leaks
As usual, you can download it via the main ActivePerl page:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl
Note that there is a separate link for downloading the 64 bit Beta
versions.
Please send feedback to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and report bugs at
http://bugs.ActiveState.com
I've appended the relevant section of the CHANGES-58.pod file to
show some more detail on other changes from the previous release.
Cheers,
-Jan
Build 817 is based on Perl 5.8.8.
I<Bug Fixes and Changes>
=over 8
=item *
Upgraded the core threads and threads::shared modules with threads-1.12
and threads-shared-0.99 from CPAN. This fixes the handle leakage on
Windows and allows setting the stack size for new threads. It also fixes
both the '!=' comparison operator for thread objects and the crashes
while joining threads that go re-introduced in build 816.
=item *
Fixed several bugs in the new implementation of alarm() for Windows.
They did manifest themselves by signals not being delivered, or by GUI
applications randomly hanging.
=item *
Restored binary compatiblity for SvPV_nolen() and similar macros. This
incompatibility made it impossible to use perlapp for Unix on Tk based
applications.
=item *
Reintroduce PL_memory_wrap for binary compatiblity.
=item *
The C<require> builtin now ignores directories matching the given name
when searching @INC.
=back
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