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diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update.en.txt b/metadata/news/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c6277c52ea16 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update/2017-10-10-perl-5_26-update.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Title: Perl 5.26 update: possible breakage +Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2017-10-10 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: >=dev-lang/perl-5.26.0 + +You have just upgraded to Perl 5.26. This release brings several +incompatible changes, as a result of deprecations coming to term +and of changes in default settings to mitigate a potential +security issue [1]. + +While we have made sure that all resulting build failures within +Gentoo are fixed, this may not be the case for runtime issues, +and certainly can affect third-party code (e.g., "hand-installed" +server applications). + +Typical errors are: +* Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::... module) +* error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’ +* Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ... + +Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run +into problems during or after the Perl update. + +General purpose advice on updating Perl can be found on page [4]. + +[1] https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834 + https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589680 +[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/Dot-In-INC-Removal +[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/5.26_Known_Issues +[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Perl |