ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 released

ActiveState has released ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 today.  It
fixes
a number of serious issues that have been found in the 816
release:

* Restored binary compatibility to previous releases.
* Fixed several bugs on Windows related to GUI applications
and
  signal handling.  These bugs were introduced in build 816.
* Updated threads and threads::shared modules to fix
resource leaks

As usual, you can download it via the main ActivePerl page:

    http://www.Acti
veState.com/ActivePerl

Note that there is a separate link for downloading the 64
bit Beta
versions.

Please send feedback to

    activeperl-feedbackActiveState.com

and report bugs at

    http://bugs.ActiveState.c
om

I've appended the relevant section of the CHANGES-58.pod
file to
show some more detail on other changes from the previous
release.

Cheers,
-Jan

Build 817 is based on Perl 5.8.8.

I<Bug Fixes and Changes>

=over 8

=item *

Upgraded the core threads and threads::shared modules with
threads-1.12
and threads-shared-0.99 from CPAN. This fixes the handle
leakage on
Windows and allows setting the stack size for new threads.
It also fixes
both the '!=' comparison operator for thread objects and
the crashes
while joining threads that go re-introduced in build 816.

=item *

Fixed several bugs in the new implementation of alarm() for
Windows.
They did manifest themselves by signals not being delivered,
or by GUI
applications randomly hanging.

=item *

Restored binary compatiblity for SvPV_nolen() and similar
macros. This
incompatibility made it impossible to use perlapp for Unix
on Tk based
applications.

=item *

Reintroduce PL_memory_wrap for binary compatiblity.

=item *

The C<require> builtin now ignores directories
matching the given name
when searching INC.

=back


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