perl5144delta - what is new for perl v5.14.4

       Perl 5.14.4 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.14.3 and contains approximately
       1,700 lines of changes across 49 files from 12 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 5.14.4:

       Andy Dougherty, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christian Hansen, Craig A. Berry, Dave Rolsky,  David  Mitchell,
       Dominic Hargreaves, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Yves Orton.

       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.

       For  a  more  complete  list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the
       Perl source distribution.

       No changes.

       No changes since 5.14.0.

       There have been no deprecations since 5.14.0.

       This document describes differences between the 5.14.3 release and the 5.14.4 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.0, first read perl5140delta, which describes
       differences between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0.

       No new or changed diagnostics.

NewDocumentation
       None.

   ChangestoExistingDocumentation
       None.

       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.14.0. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are
       welcome.

       None.

NewModulesandPragmata
       None

   UpdatedModulesandPragmata
       The following modules have just the minor code fixes as listed above in "Security" (version numbers have
       not changed):

       Socket
       SDBM_File
       List::Util

       Encode has been upgraded from version 2.42_01 to version 2.42_02.

       Module::CoreList has been updated to version 2.49_06 to add data for this release.

   RemovedModulesandPragmata
       None.

       perl5144delta - what is new for perl v5.14.4

NewPlatforms
       None.

   DiscontinuedPlatforms
       None.

   Platform-SpecificNotes
       VMS 5.14.3  failed  to  compile  on  VMS  due  to  incomplete  application of a patch series that allowed
           "userelocatableinc" and "usesitecustomize" to be  used  simultaneously.   Other  platforms  were  not
           affected and the problem has now been corrected.

       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 perlbug 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
       "perl -V", 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.

       This release contains one major, and medium, and a number of minor security fixes.  The latter are
       included mainly to allow the test suite to pass cleanly with the clang compiler's address sanitizer
       facility.

   CVE-2013-1667:memoryexhaustionwitharbitraryhashkeys
       With a carefully crafted set of hash keys (for example arguments on a URL), it is possible to cause a
       hash to consume a large amount of memory and CPU, and thus possibly to achieve a Denial-of-Service.

       This problem has been fixed.

   memoryleakinEncode
       The UTF-8 encoding implementation in Encode.xs had a memory leak which has been fixed.

   [perl#111594]Socket::unpack_sockaddr_unheap-buffer-overflow
       A read buffer overflow could occur when copying "sockaddr" buffers.  Fairly harmless.

       This problem has been fixed.

   [perl#111586]SDBM_File:fixoff-by-oneaccesstoglobal".dir"
       An extra byte was being copied for some string literals. Fairly harmless.

       This problem has been fixed.

   off-by-twoerrorinList::Util
       A string literal was being used that included two bytes beyond the end of the string. Fairly harmless.

       This problem has been fixed.

   [perl#115994]fixsegvinregcomp.c:S_join_exact()
       Under debugging builds, while marking optimised-out regex nodes as type "OPTIMIZED", it could treat
       blocks of exact text as if they were nodes, and thus SEGV. Fairly harmless.

       This problem has been fixed.

   [perl#115992]PL_eval_startuse-after-free
       The statement "local $[;", when preceded by an "eval", and when not part of an assignment, could crash.
       Fairly harmless.

       This problem has been fixed.

   wrap-aroundwithIOonlongstrings
       Reading or writing strings greater than 2**31 bytes in size could segfault due to integer wraparound.

       This problem has been fixed.

       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.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-07-25                                   PERL5144DELTA(1)

       •   In  Perl  5.14.0, "$tainted ~~ @array" stopped working properly.  Sometimes it would erroneously fail
           (when $tainted contained a string that occurs in the array after the first  element)  or  erroneously
           succeed (when "undef" occurred after the first element) [perl #93590].

       None