Unicode 6.1
eval
controlled with unicode_eval
and evalbytes
feature
substr
called in left-value context is evaluted even after changing original string
T_*REF_REFCOUNT_FIXED
XS typemap fixing reference counter decremetion
is_utf8_char_buf
XS-callable function replaces broken is_utf8_char
function
$$
variable is writable
sort
subroutines can be autoloaded
$[
variable is provided by arybase
module
PerlIO::mmap
Unicode::UCD
instead
Version::Requirements
is deprecated in favor of CPAN::Meta::Requirements
BEGIN
) are called in void context
T_DATAUNIT
and T_CALLBACK
XS typemaps removed
Unicode::Casing
XSUB
C functions are static now and they are not exported from their object files
$$
, $<
, $>
, $(
, and $)
do not cache their value
Devel::DProf
, Shell
have been removed from Perl core
abbrev.pl
, assert.pl
, bigfloat.pl
, bigint.pl
, bigrat.pl
, cacheout.pl
, complete.pl
, ctime.pl
, dotsh.pl
, exceptions.pl
, fastcwd.pl
, flush.pl
, getcwd.pl
, getopt.pl
, getopts.pl
, hostname.pl
, importenv.pl
, lib/find{,depth}.pl
, look.pl
, newgetopt.pl
, open2.pl
, open3.pl
, pwd.pl
, hellwords.pl
, stat.pl
, tainted.pl
, termcap.pl
, timelocal.pl
UTF-16
support and API changes, which are documented by the changelog
and NEWS
provided in /usr/share/doc/pcre*
source /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.12/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
to their ~/.bashrc
in addition to PS1='[\u@\h`__git_ps1` \W]\$ '
Debuginfo
included by default debuginfo
packages.
Debuginfo
compressed by DWARF
Debuginfo
will be post-processed by the DWARF compressor tool dwz to reduce size of the *.debug
files. Developers may run this same program on their binaries.
Notebook
has a new user interface and has many new features like auto-folding of very long lines, uploading new notebooks to the dashboard, manage started clusters and improved tooltips. The notebook format has changed and when you want to share your notebook with users of older version, there is a conversion script available. New cell magics like %%bash
, %%ruby
, %%timeit
and many others. The Qt console has improved menus and can directly display jpeg images.