ActiveState announces ActivePerl 5.8.9 build 825

ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.8.9 build 825,
complete, ready-to-install Perl distributions for Windows,
Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

For detailed information or to download these releases, see:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl

New in ActivePerl 5.8.9 Build 825
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* This build is based on the official 5.8.9 release. Please see the
perl589delta document for a complete list of changes between
5.8.8 and 5.8.9:

http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.8/lib/pods/perl589d elta.html

Note though that ActivePerl build 821 already started incorporating
changes from the 5.8.x maintenance track, so many of these changes
may have already been introduced in 821, 822, 823 or 824.

* PPM v4.4 is now included. This release fixes an infinite recursion
problem in the 'ppm tree' command for packages that declared circular
dependencies, and it fixes the problem that caused installing packages
from .ppmx files in other directories to fail.

This release also include tweaks to the heuristics for when to check
for updates to repository data. PPM should no longer check the same
repo more than once each day.

The ppm command creates a log of the actions it takes. On Unix ppm used
to write the log file to the home directory of the user. This
release moves the ppm4.log file into the ~/Libraray/Logs
directory on Mac OS X and into the ~/.ActivePerl directory for the
rest. On Windows the log file goes into the temp directory as before.

* PerlEx now sets the MOD_PERL environment variable (to "PerlEx/3.0")
so that modules that behave differently under mod_perl will behave
the same way under PerlEx (e.g. CGI::Carp).

* The following modules have been added to ActivePerl:

Package-Constants 0.1

* The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:

Archive-Tar 1.38-r1 1.40-r1
Archive-Zip 1.20 1.26
CGI 3.41 3.42
Compress-Raw-Zlib 2.012 2.015
Compress-Zlib 2.012 2.015
Data-Dump 1.11 1.12
File-HomeDir 0.80 0.82
HTML-Parser 3.56 3.59
IO-Compress-Base 2.012 2.015
IO-Compress-Zlib 2.012 2.015
JSON-XS 2.2222 2.23
libwww-perl 5.814 5.822
Module-Build 0.2808_01 0.30
Sub-Uplevel 0.1901 0.2002
Tcl 0.95-r1 0.97-r1
Text-CSV_XS 0.52 0.58
WWW-Mechanize 1.34-r1 1.52-r1
Win32-API 0.55 0.57
YAML-LibYAML 0.27-r1 0.29

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http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl &version=825

For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility.

Enjoy!


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