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=item Mac OS X
The locale tests were updated to reflect the behaviour of locales in
Mountain Lion.
=item GNU/Hurd
Various build and test fixes were included for GNU/Hurd.
LFS support was enabled in GNU/Hurd.
=item NetBSD
The NetBSD hints file was corrected to be compatible with NetBSD 6.*
=back
=head1 Bug Fixes
=over 4
=item *
A regression has been fixed that was introduced in 5.14, in C
regular expression matching, in which a match improperly fails if the
pattern is in UTF-8, the target string is not, and a Latin-1 character
precedes a character in the string that should match the pattern. [perl
#101710]
=item *
In case-insensitive regular expression pattern matching, no longer on
UTF-8 encoded strings does the scan for the start of match only look at
the first possible position. This caused matches such as
C<"f\x{FB00}" =~ /ff/i> to fail.
=item *
The sitecustomize support was made relocatableinc aware, so that
-Dusesitecustomize and -Duserelocatableinc may be used together.
=item *
The smartmatch operator (C<~~>) was changed so that the right-hand side
takes precedence during C operations.
=item *
A bug has been fixed in the tainting support, in which an C
operation on a tainted constant would cause all other constants to become
tainted. [perl #64804]
=item *
A regression has been fixed that was introduced in perl 5.12, whereby
tainting errors were not correctly propagated through C.
[perl #111654]
=item *
A regression has been fixed that was introduced in perl 5.14, in which
C and C no longer matched the opposite case.
[perl #101970]
=back
=head1 Acknowledgements
Perl 5.14.3 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.14.2
and contains approximately 2,300 lines of changes across 64 files from 22
authors.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
improvements that became Perl 5.14.3:
Abigail, Andy Dougherty, Carl Hayter, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dave Rolsky,
David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz,
H.Merijn Brand, Jilles Tjoelker, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Michael G
Schwern, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Pino Toscano, Ricardo Signes, Salvador
Fandiño, Samuel Thibault, Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
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 F file in the Perl source distribution.
=head1 Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be
information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
output of C, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
analysed by the Perl porting team.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send
it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription
unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able
to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help
co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all
platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for
security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently
distributed on CPAN.
=head1 SEE ALSO
The F file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
on what changed.
The F file for how to build Perl.
The F file for general stuff.
The F and F files for copyright information.
=cut