#47 Add #10 'Perl 5.26'
Merged 6 years ago by sclark. Opened 6 years ago by sclark.
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  [[sect-perl-core]]

  === Packaging of the Perl Core Modules

  The release of Fedora 27 brings a change in the way that the Perl core modules are packaged by Fedora. In Perl, the core modules are the standard set of modules that ship with the Perl interpreter.  Previously in Fedora, the Perl core modules were split into a number of subpackages in such a way that installing the `perl` package did not install the full set of Perl core modules.  This behaviour was not what was expected by most Perl users and so, from Fedora 27, installing the `perl` package now installs the full set of Perl core modules. It is still possible to install only a minimal Perl interpreter by installing just the `perl-interpreter` package.

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+ [[sect-perl-526]]

+ === Perl 5.26

+ A new version of perl is released every year and version 5.26 is 2017's stable release. This release includes three updates with widespread effects:

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+ ."." no longer in @INC

+ For security reasons, the current directory (".") is no longer included by default at the end of the module search path (@INC). This may have widespread implications for the building, testing and installing of modules, and for the execution of scripts.

+ 

+ .`do` may now warn

+ `do` now gives a deprecation warning when it fails to load a file which it would have loaded had "." been in @INC.

+ 

+ .In regular expression patterns, a literal left brace "{" must be escaped

+ Unescaped literal { characters in regular expression patterns are no longer permitted. Use a pattern like "\{" or "[{]" to specify a match to a left brace.

+ 

+ For more information about this release, please see the http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.26.0/pod/perldelta.pod[5.26.0 perldelta] web page.

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  [[sect-python]]

  == Python

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+ [[sect-python-sudo-pip]]

+ === Making sudo pip Safe (Again)

+ The location where sudo pip3 installs modules has been changed to /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, and sudo pip3 is henceforth safer to use. No other changes in user experience are expected. Sudo pip3 is not considered a standard way to install Python packages. Virtual environment and pip3 install --user should still be the prefered options. Additionally, Fedora will increase it's compliance with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, as user-installed host-specific Python modules will now be correctly located under /usr/local.

A Release Notes entry for the change 'Perl 5.26' - issue #10. @ppisar or @jplesnik please would you review the text and let me know whether anything needs to be added or changed?

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Draft Release Notes entry approved by change owner, see Issue #10.

Pull-Request has been merged by sclark

6 years ago