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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 5.42.2nb2, Package name: perl-5.42.2nb2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy
to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both
procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in
support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive
collections of third-party modules.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: perl-64bitauto, threads

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   2026-05-28 00:35:30 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl: fix security problem in Archive::Tar

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via
attacker controlled entry size field in tar header

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-05-28 00:28:20 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl: apply upstream security fix for regex on 32-bit systems.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-03-30 10:57:15 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
perl: update to 5.42.2.

Perl 5.42.2 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl
5.42.1 and contains approximately 2,900 lines of changes across 57 files
from 6 authors.
   2025-12-12 09:11:40 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (4) 
Log message:
perl5: fix segfault using upstream commit

From James Cook in PR 59831.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2025-07-04 10:58:56 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
perl5: fix a patch chunk offset
   2025-07-04 10:50:02 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
perl5: remove unused PERL5_RPATH_THREAD variable
   2025-07-04 10:49:39 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2519) 
Log message:
*: bump for perl 5.42.0
   2025-07-04 10:41:45 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (16) | Package removed
Log message:
perl: update to 5.42.0.

Perl 5.42 ships with Unicode 16.0 support, new experimental features
of the "any" and "all" operators for list processing, a new \ 
":writer"
attribute for field variables, more CORE:: subroutines like "chdir",
a new "source::encoding" pragma, various performance enhancements,
security fixes, and a variety of other changes.