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    Report from branch maint-5.12:

    Steffen Mueller: Add contact information for Sullivan Beck
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    v5.12.0-50-g3669358  Configuration (common) none
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O O O O     
O O O O     -Duse64bitint
O O O O     -Duseithreads
O O O O     -Duseithreads -Duse64bitint
| | | +----- PERLIO = perlio -DDEBUGGING
| | +------- PERLIO = stdio  -DDEBUGGING
| +--------- PERLIO = perlio
+----------- PERLIO = stdio

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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Do not advertise Math::TrulyRandom, which hasn't been updated since 1996
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    Abigail: Skip two Japhs that use the fact that split in void context splitted to @_. This is no longer true in 5.12.0 and upwards.
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    Slaven Rezic: Document IO::Socket getsockopt and setsockopt
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    Karl Williamson: PATCH: [perl #75138] "\c`" -> " "
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    Nicholas Clark: Fix the regexp in t/porting/args_assert.t, and add 3 missing macros.
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    Nicholas Clark: Migrate most other op_private to name conversion into S_op_private_to_names().
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    Nicholas Clark: Convert REGNODE_{SIMPLE,VARIES} to a bitmask lookup, from a strchr() lookup.
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    Karl Williamson: PATCH: user defined special casing for non utf8
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    Karl Williamson: Change a few tests to use new test.pl EBCDIC stuff
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    Jerry D. Hedden: Fix build warnings introduced by v5.13.0-139-ge0fa7e2
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    David Golden: Add perldelta entry for non-destructive substitution
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    Nicholas Clark: Restore strict refs on stashes, removed by ce10b5d1ec5b5f68b0811018a415bc37.
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    Zefram: fully test package-version-block syntax
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    Curtis Jewell: Adding script used for recent perlhist changes.
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    Jesse Vincent: Actually note that Shell.pm is deprecated for 5.13 and 5.14, so we can remove it in 5.15 in the Spring of 2011.
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    Tony Cook: use the correct format codes in warnings from gmtime/localtime
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    Rainer Tammer: Fix for README.aix and XL C/C++ V11
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    Curtis Jewell: Updating list of DOSish perls in perlport.pod.
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    H.Merijn Brand: Add Porting/checkpodencoding.pl to MANIFEST
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    Karl Williamson: PATCH [perl #74978] dot after } breaks \N{}
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    Jesse Vincent: Bump Module::Corelist for cherrypicking to maint-5.12
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    David Golden: Change perlgpl.pod to GPL 1 to match README
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    Vincent Pit: Silence a couple of false positive "may be used uninitialized" gcc warnings
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    Nicholas Clark: For SAVEt_ALLOC, store the number of save stack entries used with the type.
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    Nicholas Clark: Untangle REGCP_FRAME_ELEMS from REGCP_OTHER_ELEMS.
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    Nicholas Clark: Don't use a C++ keyword as a variable name ("new").
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    Ricardo Signes: import Pod-Simple 3.14 for C<< >> fix
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    Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: Correct POD link to perlrun.pod to be more accurate
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    Vincent Pit: Fix possible undefined behaviour introduced by b9e00b79e4947c49d5520633f9efd2a8e39ec14f
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    Robin Barker: remove Perl_pmflag
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    Nicholas Clark: Don't allocate pointer table entries from arenas.
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    Craig A. Berry: Fix broken -Uuseperlio build on VMS.
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Deprecation warnings should always be mandatory since 5.12.0
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    Chris Williams: Make the Module::CoreList function API consistent
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    Steffen Mueller: Module::Pluggable has upstream => cpan
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    Gisle Aas: Revert "Documentation tweaks to Text::Tabs"
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    Nicholas Clark: Note the revised signal dispatch and performance gain in perl5130delta.pod.
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    Alex Vandiver: Also guess $ENV{EMAIL}, if present, as the originating address
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Add new Data::Dumper test file to MANIFEST
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    Florian Ragwitz: Fix a minor perl5114delta error.
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    Zefram: [perl #74006] 5.12.0-RC stuffing bug
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    Jesse Vincent: Add the 5.13 deprecation stanza to Module::Corelist to make tests happy
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    Jesse Vincent: Removing the RC marker from patchlevel.h
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    brian d foy: * Fixed typo in toke.c docs, identified by Zefram
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    Jesse Vincent: adjust release dates due to rc5
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    Jos Boumans: Explicitly set the location of cpanp-run-perl when under PERL_CORE
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    Jesse Vincent: Update perldelta for the removal of the deprecation warnings on perl4-era libraries.
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    Jesse Vincent: There's gonna be an RC3
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    Jesse Vincent: 5.12.0 is now expected on 7 April 2010
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    David Golden: rafl volunteers to release blead in August 2010
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    Florian Ragwitz: Document removal of -P in perldelta.
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    Jesse Vincent: bump from rc0 to rc1.
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    Karl Williamson: Clarify that some examples are for ASCII machines
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    Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: When using a GitHub fork advice the use of Perl's Git, not GitHub's mirror
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    Chris Williams: Applied a patch from Schwern to one of the CPANPLUS test files.
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Don't encourage using Safe in perlsec
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    Jesse Vincent: A typo in my last Module::CoreList update caused the deprecated hash key alias for 5.11 to vanish. This commit corrects it
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    Jesse Vincent: Updated AUTHORS file to be current with checkAUTHORS output
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    Tom Hukins: Use POD references to documentation when possible.
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    H.Merijn Brand: Limit HP-UX 11.00 time to 48 bit in 64bit mode
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    Nicholas Clark: In comments, correct two instances of SVf_PADSTALE to SVs_PADSTALE.
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Bump Safe to version 2.25
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    Craig A. Berry: Moduule::Build test tweaks for VMS.
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Merge branch 'dual/Safe' into blead
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    Jan Dubois: Setup @INC at compile time because commit ec34a119 needs to load utf8.pm
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    David Mitchell: [perl #73174] swash_init() wasn't saving %^H
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    Karl Williamson: Note this doesn't work: $re = "\\N{...}"; /$re/
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    Jan Dubois: Teach bump-perl-version about additional perl511 references in makedef.pl.
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    Steve Hay: Update the release managers' guide: don't push the tag too soon!
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    Craig A. Berry: Don't multiply define Perl_regcurly in core and the re extension.
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    David Mitchell: stop skipping ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs.t
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    Steve Hay: Final update to perl5115delta.pod
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    Steve Hay: Almost the final updates to perl5115delta.pod
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    Steve Hay: Update perl5115delta.pod with new diagnostics
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    Steve Hay: Regen headers after previous patches
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    Jesse Vincent: Update perldelta for 5.12 to warn vendors about deprecate.pm
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    Nicholas Clark: Avoid a panic from the UTF-8 length cache if the length overflows 32 bits.
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    		 smoker # dtseven.demon.co.uk 2010-02-18 21:51:00 Report N S
    Steve Hay: Keep perl5115delta.pod up to date
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    Steve Hay: Update perl5115delta.pod with today's changes
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    Steve Hay: Keep perl5115delta.pod up to date
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    Steve Hay: Bump version's $VERSION
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    		 smoker # dtseven.demon.co.uk 2010-02-15 04:59:00 Report N S
    Nicholas Clark: Convert Perl_sv_pos_u2b_proper() to Perl_sv_pos_u2b_flags().
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Bump Safe's version to 2.22
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    Tim Bunce: Bug in Safe 2.21 re propagating exceptions
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    Branch maint-5.12

    Jesse Vincent: Remove RC marker for 5.12.1
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    Jesse Vincent: Perl 5.12.1 now includes Safe.pm 2.27. Module::CoreList should say so
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    Jesse Vincent: Typo in perldelta spotted by Robin Smidsrød
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    David Golden: minor perldelta improvements for 5.12.1
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    David Golden: Change perlgpl.pod to GPL 1 to match README
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    Karl Williamson: perlfunc.pod: case-change cleanup; mention packtut
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: when(scalar) without argument should be a syntax error [perl #74114]
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    Jesse Vincent: fix a mising .0->.1 in README.vms
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    Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Ignore the /UU directory that exists during ./Configure (cherry picked from commit 433d4b0fb3195bdf6cc90be8b502b4308c90d578)
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    Steffen Mueller: Add contact information for Sullivan Beck
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    Chris Williams: POD tweak to 'require' in perlfunc relating to putting Perl code in @INC (cherry picked from commit 1c3d5054181a1dff3dab69a3f7c820ac692c8730)
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    Jan Dubois: time() resolution is full seconds
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    Zefram: put package declaration before label in deparsing
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    Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: Simplify the perldelta howto by using Git features
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    Jesse Vincent: Add the new maint policy to perlpolicy.pod (cherry picked from commit fcf56c882778404575ffceaf30da524e2e7c5219)
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    Same host, same os including the major and minor versions but not the "patch" or third level of version, same build configurations.