perldelta - what is new for perl v5.41.12
This document describes differences between the 5.41.11 release and the 5.41.12 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.41.10, first read perl54111delta, which describes differences between 5.41.10 and 5.41.11.
This release contains one fix, which only affects the darwin architecture (macos), where hints/darwin.sh contained a syntax error that caused the installation to fail.
As in release 5.41.11, collation of strings using locales on MacOS 15 (Darwin 24) and up has been turned off due to a failed assertion in its libc.
If earlier versions are also experiencing issues (such as failures in locale.t), you can explicitly disable locale collation by adding the -DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE option to your invokation of ./Configure, or to the ccflags and cppflags variables in config.sh.
Perl 5.41.12 represents approximately 0 weeks of development since Perl 5.41.11 and contains approximately 770 lines of changes across 36 files from 1 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 35 lines of changes to 4 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.41.12:
Karen Etheridge.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. There may also be information at https://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to report the issue.
If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by running the perlthanks program:
perlthanksThis will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.