If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.31.0, first read perl5320delta, which describes differences between 5.31.0 and 5.32.0.
A number of memory leaks have been fixed.
A warning has been added about evaluating untrusted code with the perl interpreter.
A warning has been added about evaluating untrusted code with the perl interpreter.
Documentation of the newly formed rules of governance for Perl.
perlsecpolicy
Documentation of how the Perl security team operates and how the team evaluates new security reports.
Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
perlop
This error was incorrectly produced in some cases involving nested lookarounds. This has been fixed.
[GH #18123 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18123>]
On several systems the attempt to determine if we need "va_copy" or similar results in a SIGBUS instead of the expected SIGSEGV, which previously caused a core dump.
[GH #18148 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18148>]
[GH #17946 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17946>, GH #18406 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18406>]
[GH #17908 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17908>]
[GH #16685 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16685>, GH #17816 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17816>]
[GH #18096 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18096>]
[GH #18341 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18341>]
[GH #17917 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17917>, GH #18380 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18380>]
[GH #18063 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18063>]
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 1,300 lines of changes to 23 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.32.1:
Adam Hartley, Andy Dougherty, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsa°ker, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Graham Knop, Graham Ollis, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, John Lightsey, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Max Maischein, Nicolas R., Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X, Sevan Janiyan, Steve Hay, Tom Hukins, 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 AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see ``SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION'' in perlsec for details of how to report the issue.
perlthanks
This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.