The cygwin perl packages perl and perl_manpages have been updated to the
current stable version 5.8.8.
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.8.7. If any
exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. No XS module needs a
recompilation.
Additionally several modules have been added to vendor_perl.
Note: Previously installed modules in site_perl have higher precedence.
See http://www.perl.org/
ChangeLog: http://perldoc.perl.org/perl588delta.html
Old vendor patches:
* CYG01 - hints.cygwin.sh ldflags -s
* CYG03 - lib-Test-Harness-Straps $ENV{PERL5LIB} = ''
* CYG04 - major.version.cygwin.sh cygperl-5_8.dll and not
cygperl-5_8_x.dll
* CYG05 - add Win32CORE to core
Added new vendor patches:
* fixed installperl for CYG04
* CYG02 - lib-ExtUtils-Embed insensitive against leading \\s
* CYG07 - File-Spec-Cygwin-TMPDIR.patch"
* Bug#38628 - allow legacy Cwd->cwd()
* Bug#40103 - File-Spec-case_tolerant.patch from 5.9.5
Detailed NEWS from README
-------------------------
5.8.8-3
- Maintainer change from Gerrit Haase to Reini Urban.
- fixed installperl for the pl-CYG04major.version.cygwin.sh.patch
(skipping lib and pods).
- added #40103 - File-Spec-case_tolerant.patch from 5.9.5
- added #38628 Cwd->cwd() patch, but not the full cygwin-path.patch
posted to p5p
- added File-Spec-Cygwin-TMPDIR.patch
- added several backports for failing testsuite cases.
- Adjust the perlcygwin documentation for ntsec, cygserver and Unicode
limitations.
- included more vendor_perl packages compared to 5.8.7 (without
comment they are all new).
Rationale: Same local vendor_perl packages included as in 5.8.7,
plus some of the new CPAN packages which went to core with 5.9.5,
Bundle::CPAN, CPAN::Reporter, Module::Build, Par::Dist,
for a full CPAN bootstrap, the new libXML packages,
and some almost-core dependencies.
Win32API-File-0.1001
Pod-Simple-3.05 Test-Pod-1.26 Pod-Coverage-0.18
Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08
IO-Compress-Base-2.005
Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.005 IO-Compress-Zlib-2.005
Compress-Zlib-2.005 (updated from 1.41)
Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.005 IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.005
Compress-Bzip2-2.09 (same)
IO-Zlib-1.05 (updated from 1.04)
IO-String-1.08 (updated from 1.07)
Archive-Tar-1.32 (updated from 1.26, but without bin)
Archive-Zip-1.20
MD5-2.03 (same)
Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0302 (updated from 1.0203)
Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.16 TermReadKey-2.30 (same)
XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 XML-SAX-0.15 XML-LibXML-Common-0.13
XML-LibXML-1.63
XML-Parser-2.34 (same)
Proc-ProcessTable-0.41 (updated from 0.40)
File-Temp-0.18 YAML-0.62
Config-Tiny-2.10 File-Copy-Recursive-0.33 IPC-Run3-0.037
Probe-Perl-0.01
Tee-0.13 IO-CaptureOutput-1.03 File-pushd-0.99 File-HomeDir-0.65
Digest-SHA-5.45
Module-Signature-0.55 Devel-Symdump-2.07
URI-1.35 HTML-Tagset-3.10 HTML-Parser-3.56 libwww-perl-5.805
CPAN-1.9102
Test-Reporter-1.27 CPAN-Reporter-0.44
Net-Telnet-3.03 (same)
Module-ScanDeps-0.75 PAR-Dist-0.23
ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19 ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18 Regexp-Common-2.120
version-0.7203 podlators-2.0.5 Pod-Readme-0.09
Module-Build-0.2808
B-Generate-1.09 PadWalker-1.5 Alias-2.32
- removed /usr/bin/ptar and /usr/bin/ptardiff, and subsequently
Algorithm-Diff-1.1902 Text-Diff-0.35. If you want these binaries
install Archive::Tar via cpan
- PAR is not included because of /usr/bin/pp, impolite namespace
pollution. But since the PAR::Dist is included the tight version
dependency problems should have gone.
========================================================================
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. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
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