rhel => '2', # v5.6.0; also in red hat 7.0
solaris => '9', # v5.6.1; 2002-05 eol 2014-10
aix => '5.1', # 2001-05 eol 2006-04
- opensuse => '7.1',
+ opensuse => '7.1', # 2001-01
},
unicode => '3.0.1',
},
rhel => '3', # v5.8.0; v5.8.8 in RHEL6 (2007-2014)
solaris => '10', # v5.8.4; 2005-01 eol 2021-01
centos => '3-5', # v5.8.0 in v3 (2004-03); v5.8.8 in v5 (eol 2017-03)
- ubuntu => '4.10',
+ ubuntu => '4.10', # v5.8.4 (2004-10); v5.8.7 in 6.06 LTS (2006-06); v5.8.8 in 8.04 LTS (2008-04)
aix => '5.2', # v5.8.0; v5.8.2 in 5.3 and 6.1 (eol 2017-04-30)
freebsd => '4-6',
- opensuse => '8.1',
+ opensuse => '8.1', # 2002-09 eol (SLES8 2002-10 eol 2007-12 ltss 2009-12)
},
distrosum => "dinosaur platforms such as Solaris 10, AIX 5.2, RHEL 3, SLES 8",
+ support => '2021-01', # solaris
unicode => '3.2.0',
},
['<code>given</code>', 'switch statement to smart-match with <code>when</code>/<code>default</code>', {feature => 'switch', experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
['<code>/(?<name>)/</code>', 'named capture buffers into <code>%+</code>'],
['<code>/(?1)/</code>', 'recursive regular expression patterns'],
+ ['<code>/(?|)/</code>', 'resets capture numbering for each contained branch'],
['<code>/.++/</code>', 'possessive quantifiers <code>?+</code>, <code>*+</code>, <code>++</code> to match greedily'],
['<code>s/keep\K//</code>', 'floating positive lookbehind, efficient alternative for <code>s/(keep)/$1/</code>'],
- ['<code>/\v/, /\h/</code>', 'vertical and horizontal whitespace escapes'],
+ ['<code>/p</code>', 'optionally preserve <code>${^MATCH}</code> variables (avoiding <code>$&</code> penalty until COW in v5.20)'],
+ ['<code>/\v/, /\h/</code>', 'vertical and horizontal whitespace escapes (<code>\V</code> <code>\H</code> to invert); also <code>/\R/</code> for newlines'],
['<code>my $_</code>', 'lexically scoped version of the default variable', {experimental => 'lexical_topic', dropped => v5.23.4}],
['<code>state</code>', 'persistent <code>my</code> variables', {feature => 'state'}],
],
release => '2007-12-18',
distro => {
- debian => 'lenny',
- rhel => '6', # v5.10.1
- centos => '6', # v5.10.1 (2011-07 eol 2020-11)
- ubuntu => '8.10', # v5.10.1 in 10.04 LTS
- aix => '7.1', # v5.10.1 (2010-09 eol 2020?)
- opensuse => '11.0',
+ debian => '5.0', # lenny 2009-02 eol 2012-02
+ rhel => '6', # v5.10.1 (-6.9 2017-03 eol 2020-11 TuxCare els 2024-12)
+ centos => '6', # v5.10.1 (2011-07 eol 2020-11 TuxCare els 2024-11)
+ ubuntu => '8.10', # v5.10.1 in 10.04 LTS 2010-04 eol 2013-05
+ aix => '7.1', # v5.10.1 (2010-09 eol 2023-04)
+ opensuse => '11.0', # 2008-06 (SLES11 2009-03 eol 2019-03 ltss 2022-03)
},
+ distrosum => "dinosaur platforms such as AIX 7.1, SLES 11, RHEL 6, Solaris 11",
+ support => '2024-11', # aix
unicode => '5.0.0',
},
release => '2010-04-12',
unicode => '5.2',
distro => {
- solaris => '11', # also v5.8.4; 2010-11 eol 2024-11
+ solaris => '11', # also v5.8.4; 2010-11; v11.3 eol 2024-01
ubuntu => '11.10',
freebsd => '7',
- opensuse => '11.3',
+ opensuse => '11.3', # 2010-07
},
+ support => '2024-01', # solaris
},
v5.14 => {
new => [
['<code>s///r</code>', 'non-destructive substitution'],
- ['<code>/(?^)/</code>', 'construct to reset to default modifiers'],
['<code>/(?{ m() })/</code>', 'regular expressions can be nested in <code>/(?{})/</code> and <code>/(??{})/</code>', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.20}],
+ ['<code>/dalu</code>', 'regexp modifiers to restrict character classes: either <strong>d</strong>efault, <strong>a</strong>scii, <strong>l</strong>ocale, or <strong>u</strong>nicode semantics.'],
[q"<code>use re '/flags'</code>", 'customise default modifiers'],
+ ['<code>/(?^)/</code>', 'construct to reset to default modifiers'],
['<code>each $ref</code> e.a.', 'array and hash container functions accept references', {experimental => 'postderef', dropped => v5.23.1}],
['<code>FH->method</code>', 'filehandle method calls load IO::File on demand (eg. <code>STDOUT->flush</code>)'],
+ ['<code>\o{}</code>', 'escape sequence for octal values beyond \777'],
],
release => '2011-05-14',
distro => {
- debian => '7', # wheezy 2013-05 eol 2018-05
+ debian => '7', # wheezy 2013-05 eol 2018-05 elts 2020-06
ubuntu => '12.04',
- opensuse => '12.1',
+ opensuse => '12.1', # 2011-11 (SLES12 2014-10 eol 2024-10 ltss 2027-10)
},
distrosum => "stable servers such as Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7",
+ support => '2027-10', # suse
unicode => '6.0+#8',
},
],
release => '2012-05-20',
distro => {
- rhel => '7', # v5.16.3
- centos => '7', # v5.16.3 (2014-07 eol 2024-06)
+ rhel => '7', # v5.16.3 (-7.9 2020-09 eol 2024-06)
+ centos => '7', # v5.16.3 (2014-07 eol 2024-06 TuxCare els 2028-06)
freebsd => '9',
- opensuse => '12.2',
+ opensuse => '12.2', # 2012-09
},
unicode => '6.1',
},
v5.18 => {
new => [
['<code>${^LAST_FH}</code>', 'last read filehandle (used by <code>$.</code>)'],
- ['<code>/(?[ a + b ])/</code>', 'regex set operations (character substraction <code>-</code>, unions <code>&</code>)', {experimental => 'regex_sets'}],
+ ['<code>/(?[ a + b ])/</code>', 'regex set operations (character subtraction <code>-</code>, union <code>+</code>, intersection <code>&</code>, xor <code>^</code>)', {experimental => 'regex_sets', stable => v5.36}],
['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>); buggy before v5.22', {experimental => 'lexical_subs', stable => v5.26}],
['<code>next $expression</code>', 'loop controls allow runtime expressions'],
[q"<code>no warnings 'experimental::…'</code>", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for <em>smartmatch</em>'],
release => '2013-05-18',
distro => {
ubuntu => '14.04 LTS', # trusty
- opensuse => '13.1',
+ opensuse => '13.1', # 2013-11 eol 2016-01
},
unicode => '6.2',
},
v5.20 => {
new => [
- ['<code>sub ($var)</code>', 'subroutine signatures', {feature => 'signatures', experimental => 'signatures'}],
+ ['<code>sub ($var)</code>', 'subroutine signatures', {feature => 'signatures', experimental => 'signatures', stable => v5.36}],
['<code>%hash{…}</code>', 'hash slices return key+value pairs'],
['<code>[]->@*</code>', 'postfix dereferencing (also e.g. <code>$scalar->$*</code> for <code>$$scalar</code>)', {feature => 'postderef, postderef_qq', experimental => 'postderef', stable => v5.23.1}],
[q"<code>use warnings 'once'; $a</code>", 'variables $a and $b are exempt from <em>used once</em> warnings'],
unicode => '6.3',
release => '2014-05-27',
distro => {
- debian => '8', # jessie 2015-04 eol 2020-05
+ debian => '8', # jessie 2015-04 eol 2018-06 lts 2020-06 elts 2025-06
ubuntu => '14.10', # utopic
- aix => '7.2',
+ aix => '7.2', # 2015-12 eol 2028?
opensuse => '13.2', # 2014-11 eol 2017-01
},
- distrosum => "stable servers such as Debian 8 (oldstable), Ubuntu 14.10, FreeBSD 10, openSUSE 13.2",
+ distrosum => "legacy servers such as Debian 8, Ubuntu 14.10, FreeBSD 10, openSUSE 13.2, AIX 7.2",
},
v5.22 => {
['<code>&.</code>', '<code>& | ^ ~</code> consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', {feature => 'bitwise', experimental => 'bitwise', stable => v5.28}],
[q"<code>use re 'strict'</code>", 'apply stricter syntax rules to regular expression patterns', {experimental => 're_strict'}],
['<code>0x.beep+0</code>', q"hexadecimal floating point notation with binary power; <code>printf '%a'</code> to display"],
+ ['<code><s>??</s></code>', 'single match shorthand (deprecated since v5.14) requires the operator <code><em>m</em>?PATTERN?</code>'],
],
unicode => '7.0',
release => '2015-06-01',
distro => {
- ubuntu => '16.04 LTS', # xenial
+ ubuntu => '16.04 LTS', # xenial 2016-04 eol 2021-04 TuxCare els 2025-04
},
},
unicode => '8.0',
release => '2016-05-09',
distro => {
- debian => '9', # stretch 2017-06
- ubuntu => '17.04', # zesty
+ debian => '9', # stretch 2017-06 eol 2020-07 lts 2022-06 elts 2027-06
+ ubuntu => '17.04', # zesty 2017-04 eol 2018-01
freebsd => '10',
},
+ support => '2027-06',
},
v5.26 => {
unicode => '9.0', # also Script_Extensions/scx in "\p{script}"
release => '2017-05-30',
distro => {
- ubuntu => '17.10', # artful
+ ubuntu => '17.10', # artful 2017-10; 18.04 LTS 2018-04 eol 2023-04
+ opensuse => '15.0', # 2018-05 eol 2019-11; same in 15.4 2022-06
+ centos => '8', # 2019-09 eol 2021-12 TuxCare els 2026-01
},
+ distrosum => "stable servers such as Ubuntu 17.10+ (Debian >9), CentOS 8, openSUSE 15.0",
+ support => '2023-04',
},
v5.28 => {
['<code>/(*…)/</code>', 'alphabetic synonyms for assertions, e.g. <code>(*atomic:…)</code> for <code>(?>…)</code> and <code>(*nlb:…)</code> for <code>(?<!…)</code>', {experimental => 'alpha_assertions', stable => v5.31.6}],
['<code>/(*script_run:)/</code>', 'enforces all characters to be from the same script', {experimental => 'script_run', stable => v5.31.6}],
['<code>state @a</code>', 'persistent lexical array or hash variables'],
- ['<code>perl -i -pe die</code>', 'safe in-place editing: files are replaced only after successful completion'],
+ ['perl<code> -i -pe die</code>', 'safe in-place editing: files are replaced only after successful completion'],
['<code>${^SAFE_LOCALES}</code>', 'locales are thread-safe on supported systems, indicated by this variable'],
],
unicode => '10.0',
release => '2018-06-22',
distro => {
+ debian => '10', # buster 2019-07
+ ubuntu => '19.04', # disco 2019-04 eol 2020-01
+ freebsd => '11', # eol 2021-09
},
+ distrosum => "stable systems such as Debian 10, Ubuntu 19.04, FreeBSD 11",
},
v5.30 => {
new => [
- ['<code>/(?<=var+)</code>', 'variable length lookbehind assertions', {experimental => 'vlb'}],
+ ['<code>/(?<=var+)</code>', 'variable length lookbehind assertions', {experimental => 'vlb', stable => v5.36}],
['<code>m(\p{nv=/.*/})</code>', 'match unicode properties by regular expressions', {experimental => 'uniprop_wildcards'}],
['<code><s>my $state if 0</s></code>', 'workaround for <code>state</code> (deprecated since v5.10!) is now prohibited'],
[q"<code>qr'\N'</code>", 'Delimiters must be graphemes; unescaped { illegal; \N in single quotes'],
],
unicode => '12.1',
release => '2019-05-22',
+ distro => {
+ ubuntu => '20.04', # focal LTS 2020-04 eol 2025-04
+ },
},
v5.32 => {
new => [
- ['<code>isa</code>', 'infix operator to check class instance'],
+ ['<code>isa</code>', 'infix operator to check class instance', {feature => 'isa', experimental => 'isa', stable => v5.36}],
+ ['<code>$min < $_ <= $max</code>', 'chained comparison repeats inner part as <code>$min < $_ and $_ <= $max</code>'],
+ ['<code>/\p{Name=$var}/</code>', 'match Unicode Name property like \N{} but with interpolation and subpatterns'],
[q"<code>open F, '+>>', undef</code>", 'respect append mode on temporary files with mixed access'],
- ['streamzip', 'program distributed with core IO::Compress::Base'],
+ ["<code>no feature 'indirect'</code>", 'disable indirect object notation such as <code>new Class</code> instead of <code>Class->new</code>'],
+ ['streamzip', 'program distributed with core IO::Compress::Base to compress stdin into a zip container'],
],
- # https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2020/01/perl-v5-32-new-features/
unicode => '13.0',
+ release => '2020-06-20',
+ details => 'https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2020/01/perl-v5-32-new-features/',
+ distro => {
+ debian => '11', # bullseye 2021-08
+ ubuntu => '21.04', # hirsute 2021-04 eol 2022-01
+ rhel => '8', # -8.7 and -9.1 2022-11
+ solaris => '11.4', # 2018-08 eol 2034-11 (SRU 38 removes 5.22, 5.26)
+ },
+ distrosum => "stable systems such as Debian 11, Ubuntu 21.04, RHEL 8, Solaris 11.4, AIX 7.3",
+ support => '2034-11', # solaris
+ },
+
+ v5.34 => {
+ new => [
+ ['<code>try {} catch</code>', 'exception handling similar to eval blocks', {feature => 'try', experimental => 'try'}],
+ ['<code>/{,<i>n</i>}/</code>', 'empty lower bound quantifier is accepted as shorthand for 0'],
+ ['<code>\x{ … }</code>', 'insignificant space within curly braces, also for <code>\b{}</code>, <code>\g{}</code>, <code>\k{}</code>, <code>\N{}</code>, <code>\o{}</code> as well as <code>/{m,n}/</code> quantifiers'],
+ ['<code>0o0</code>', 'octal prefix <code>0o</code> alternative to <code>0…</code> and <code>oct</code>'],
+ ['<code>re::optimization(qr//)</code>', 'debug regular expression optimization information discovered at compile time'],
+ ['<code>no feature …</code>', 'disable discouraged practices of <code>bareword_filehandles</code> and <code>multidimensional</code> array emulation'],
+ ],
+ release => '2021-05-20',
+ distro => {
+ ubuntu => '22.04', # jammy LTS 2022-04 eol 2027-04
+ aix => '7.3', # 2021-12 eol 2035?
+ },
+ },
+
+ v5.36 => {
+ new => [
+ ['<code>use v5.36</code>', "use <code>warnings</code>; use feature qw'<code>signatures isa</code>'; no feature qw'<code>indirect multidimensional switch</code>'"],
+ ['<code>use builtin</code>', 'namespace for interpreter functions, such as <code>weaken</code> and <code>blessed</code> from <code>Scalar::Util</code>, <code>ceil</code>/<code>floor</code> from <code>POSIX</code>, and <code>trim</code> like <code>String::Util</code>', {experimental => 'builtin'}],
+ ['<code>is_bool(!0)</code>', 'distinguish scalar variable types (by <code>builtin</code> functions) for data interoperability'],
+ ['<code>for my ($k, $v) (%hash)</code>', 'iterate over multiple values at a time (including <code>builtin::indexed</code> for arrays)', {experimental => 'for_list', feature => 'for_list'}],
+ ['<code>defer {}</code>', 'queue code to be executed when going out of scope', {feature => 'defer', experimental => 'defer'}],
+ ['<code>try {} finally {}</code>', 'run code at the end of a <code>try</code> construct regardless of failure', {feature => 'try', experimental => 'try'}],
+ ['<code>q«…»</code>', 'unicode delimiters for quoting operators', {experimental => 'extra_paired_delimiters'}],
+ ['<code>sub ($var) {!<s>pop</s>}</code>', 'signatured subs are stable, but mixing with the arguments array <code>@_</code> remains experimental', {feature => 'signatures', experimental => 'args_array_with_signatures'}],
+ ['<code>$SIG{FPE}</code>', 'floating-point exceptions no longer deferred but delivered immediately like other signals'],
+ ['perl<code> -g</code>', 'disable input record separator (slurp mode), alias for <code>-0777</code>'],
+ ],
+ unicode => '14.0',
+ release => '2022-05-28',
+ distro => {
+ debian => '12', # bookworm 2023 upcoming
+ ubuntu => '23.04', # lunar upcoming
+ },
},
}
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