ANNOUNCE: ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.2 released

ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of Perl Dev Kit 7.2,
the essential tool suite for Perl developers that facilitates the
creation and deployment of professional Perl applications.

ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.2 contains fixes and Perl 5.10 support for
PerlNET as well as some other bug fixes. Read the abbreviated release
notes attached below, or read all the details here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/PDK/7.2/Release.html

For general information about the Perl Dev Kit please check out:

http://www.activestate.com/pdk

PDK 7.2 is a free update for all users with a PDK 7.0 license, or a
current ActivePerl Pro Studio subscription. Please login to your
ActiveState account to download the new software:

https://www.activestate.com/store/login.aspx

Enjoy!

The PDK Team, ActiveState
http://www.activestate.com


What's New in Perl Dev Kit 7.2?
===============================

PerlNET has been added back to the PDK.

* PerlNET now supports ActivePerl 5.6, 5.8 and 5.10. There are 2 sets of
runtime libraries: Perl58RT72.dll and Perl58NH72.dll are used by
PerlNET assemblies built using ActivePerl 5.6 or 5.8. The libraries
for ActivePerl 5.10 are called Perl510RT72.dll and Perl510NH72.dll.

* The assembly loader in the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 has a problem
loading images with certain characteristics of the resources section.
This prevents some assemblies created by earlier releases of PerlNET
to be loaded by the latest version of .NET. PerlNET 7.2 will no longer
create resource sections that trigger this problem in the .NET loader.

* A memory leak has been fixed that happened when .NET code was
accessing Perl variables that had overloaded string and number
semantics. This includes accessing fields of PerlNET objects that have
been implemented as pure .NET types.

* PerlNET 7.2 and all assemblies generated by it now require the .NET 2.0
Framework (earlier versions of PerlNET used the .NET 1.1 Framework).

Enhancements and Bug Fixes

* There have been several improvements in how additional bundled
libraries are being loaded, both while using --dyndll, and without.
This includes finding additional libraries automatically that are
residing in the same directory as a Perl module/

* PerlApp on OS X will now always use ActivePerl 5.10 and only fall back
to ActivePerl 5.8 if 5.10 is not installed. You can force PerlApp to
always use 5.8 by creating a symlink from
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl to /usr/local/PDK/etc/pdk-perl.

Some module heuristics have been updated.


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