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Strawberry Perl (5.16.2.2-32bit) Release Notes

Released: Feb 23 2013

Check out what is new, what known issues there are, and frequently asked questions about this version of Strawberry Perl. As always, you're encouraged to tell us what you think.

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List of distributions installed on top of Perl 5.16.2: Collapse

IDDistributionVersionNote
1.Algorithm-Diff1.1902
2.aliased0.31
3.Alien-Tidypv1.4.7
4.App-Cpan1.61
5.App-cpanminus1.5021+fix for issue 132
6.App-local-lib-Win32Helper0.990
7.App-module-version1.004
8.AppConfig1.66
9.Archive-Extract0.68
10.Archive-Tar1.90
11.Archive-Zip1.30
12.autodie2.16
13.AutoLoader5.73
14.B-Debug1.18
15.B-Hooks-EndOfScope0.12
16.B-Hooks-OP-Check0.19
17.B-Lint1.17
18.BerkeleyDB0.51
19.bignum0.30
20.Capture-Tiny0.21
21.Carp-Clan6.04
22.CGI.pm3.63
23.Class-Accessor0.34
24.Class-ErrorHandler0.01
25.Class-Inspector1.28
26.Class-Load0.20
27.Class-Load-XS0.06
28.Class-Loader2.03
29.Class-Method-Modifiers2.03
30.Class-Singleton1.4
31.Clone0.34
32.Clone-PP1.02
33.common-sense3.6
34.Compress-Bzip22.09
35.Compress-Raw-Bzip22.060
36.Compress-Raw-Lzma2.060
37.Compress-Raw-Zlib2.060
38.Compress-unLZMA0.04
39.constant1.25
40.Context-Preserve0.01
41.Convert-ASCII-Armour1.4
42.Convert-ASN10.26
43.Convert-PEM0.08
44.CPAN-Checksums2.08
45.CPAN-DistnameInfo0.12
46.CPAN-Inject1.14
47.CPAN-Meta2.120921
48.CPAN-Meta-Check0.004
49.CPAN-Meta-Requirements2.122
50.CPAN-Meta-YAML0.008
51.CPAN-Mini1.111011
52.CPAN-SQLite0.202
53.CPANPLUS0.9134
54.CPANPLUS-Dist-Build0.70
55.Crypt-Blowfish2.12+fix for #55173
56.Crypt-CAST5_PP1.04
57.Crypt-CBC2.32
58.Crypt-DES2.05
59.Crypt-DES_EDE30.01
60.Crypt-DH0.07
61.Crypt-DSA1.17
62.Crypt-IDEA1.08+fix for #55158
63.Crypt-OpenPGP1.06
64.Crypt-Primes0.50
65.Crypt-Random1.25
66.Crypt-Rijndael1.11
67.Crypt-RIPEMD1600.05
68.Crypt-RSA1.99
69.Crypt-SSLeay0.64
70.Crypt-Twofish2.15
71.Data-Buffer0.04
72.Data-Compare1.22
73.Data-Dump1.21
74.Data-Dumper2.139
75.Data-OptList0.107
76.Data-Printer0.35
77.Data-Random0.08
78.DateTime0.78
79.DateTime-Locale0.45
80.DateTime-TimeZone1.56
81.DB_File1.827
82.DBD-ADO2.99
83.DBD-mysql4.022
84.DBD-ODBC1.41
85.DBD-Pg2.19.3
86.DBD-SQLite1.37
87.DBI1.623
88.DBIx-Simple1.35
89.DBM-Deep2.0008
90.Devel-Declare0.006011
91.Devel-GlobalDestruction0.09
92.Devel-PartialDump0.15
93.Digest-BubbleBabble0.02
94.Digest-HMAC1.03
95.Digest-MD22.03
96.Digest-MD52.52
97.Digest-SHA5.82
98.Digest-SHA12.13
99.Dist-CheckConflicts0.02
100.Encode2.48
101.Encode-Locale1.03
102.Eval-Closure0.08
103.Exporter5.67
104.ExtUtils-Depends0.304
105.ExtUtils-F771.17
106.ExtUtils-MakeMaker6.64
107.ExtUtils-ParseXS3.18
108.FCGI0.74
109.File-CheckTree4.42
110.File-chmod0.32
111.File-Fetch0.38
112.File-Find-Rule0.33
113.File-HomeDir1.00
114.File-Listing6.04
115.File-Path2.09
116.File-pushd1.003
117.File-Remove1.52
118.File-ShareDir1.03
119.File-Slurp9999.19
120.File-Which1.09
121.Filter1.45
122.GD2.46+fix for #67990
123.Hook-LexWrap0.24
124.HTML-Form6.03
125.HTML-Parser3.69
126.HTML-Tagset3.20
127.HTML-Tree5.03
128.HTTP-Cookies6.01
129.HTTP-Daemon6.01
130.HTTP-Date6.02
131.HTTP-Message6.06
132.HTTP-Negotiate6.01
133.HTTP-Server-Simple0.44
134.HTTP-Tiny0.025
135.Imager0.94
136.IO-Compress2.060
137.IO-Compress-Lzma2.060
138.IO-HTML0.04
139.IO-Interactive0.0.6
140.IO-Socket-INET62.69
141.IO-Socket-IP0.18
142.IO-Socket-SSL1.84
143.IO-String1.08
144.IO-stringy2.110
145.IPC-Cmd0.78
146.IPC-Run0.92
147.IPC-Run30.045
148.IPC-System-Simple1.21
149.JSON2.53
150.JSON-XS2.33
151.libwww-perl6.04
152.List-MoreUtils0.33
153.local-lib1.008007
154.Locale-Codes3.24
155.Locale-Maketext1.23
156.Log-Message0.06
157.Log-Message-Simple0.10
158.LWP-MediaTypes6.02
159.LWP-Online1.08
160.LWP-Protocol-https6.03
161.Math-BigInt-GMP1.37
162.Math-GMP2.06
163.Math-Int640.29
164.Math-MPC1.00
165.Math-MPFR3.16
166.Math-Pari2.01080605
167.Math-Round0.06
168.Memoize1.03
169.Module-Build0.4003
170.Module-CoreList2.82
171.Module-Implementation0.06
172.Module-Load0.24
173.Module-Load-Conditional0.54
174.Module-Metadata1.000011
175.Module-Pluggable4.6
176.Module-Runtime0.013
177.Module-Signature0.70
178.Moo1.000008
179.Moose2.0604
180.MooseX-ClassAttribute0.26
181.MooseX-Declare0.35
182.MooseX-LazyRequire0.09
183.MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion0.01
184.MooseX-Method-Signatures0.44
185.MooseX-NonMoose0.22
186.MooseX-Role-Parameterized1.00
187.MooseX-Traits0.11
188.MooseX-Types0.35
189.MooseX-Types-DateTime0.08
190.MooseX-Types-Structured0.28
191.Mozilla-CA20130114
192.MRO-Compat0.12
193.namespace-autoclean0.13
194.namespace-clean0.24
195.Net-HTTP6.05
196.Net-SMTP-TLS0.12
197.Net-SSH20.48
198.Net-SSLeay1.52
199.Net-Telnet3.03
200.Number-Compare0.03
201.Object-Accessor0.46
202.Package-DeprecationManager0.13
203.Package-Stash0.34
204.Package-Stash-XS0.26
205.PAR1.007
206.PAR-Dist0.49
207.PAR-Dist-FromPPD0.03
208.PAR-Dist-InstallPPD0.02
209.PAR-Repository-Client0.25
210.PAR-Repository-Query0.14
211.Params-Check0.36
212.Params-Util1.07
213.Params-Validate1.07
214.Parse-Binary0.11
215.Parse-CPAN-Meta1.4404
216.Parse-Method-Signatures1.003014
217.PathTools3.40
218.perlfaq5.0150041
219.PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint0.07
220.pip1.19
221.pler1.06
222.Pod-Checker1.60
223.Pod-LaTeX0.61
224.Pod-Parser1.60
225.Pod-Perldoc3.19
226.Pod-Simple3.25
227.Pod-Usage1.61
228.podlators2.5.0
229.Portable1.17
230.PPI1.215
231.PPM11.11_02
232.Probe-Perl0.01
233.Role-Tiny1.002005
234.Safe2.35
235.Scalar-List-Utils1.27
236.Search-Dict1.07
237.SOAP-Lite0.715
238.Socket2.009
239.Socket60.23
240.Sort-Naturally1.03
241.Sort-Versions1.5
242.Storable2.39
243.strictures1.004004
244.String-CRC321.4
245.Sub-Exporter0.985
246.Sub-Exporter-Progressive0.001008
247.Sub-Install0.926
248.Sub-Name0.05
249.Sub-Uplevel0.24
250.Task-Weaken1.04
251.Template-Tiny1.12
252.Template-Toolkit2.24
253.Term-ANSIColor4.02
254.Term-ReadLine1.10
255.Term-ReadLine-Perl1.0303
256.Term-UI0.34
257.TermReadKey2.30.02
258.Test1.26
259.Test-CheckDeps0.002
260.Test-Deep0.110
261.Test-Differences0.61
262.Test-Exception0.31
263.Test-Fatal0.010
264.Test-Harness3.26
265.Test-Manifest1.23
266.Test-NoWarnings1.04
267.Test-Object0.07
268.Test-Output1.01
269.Test-Requires0.06
270.Test-Script1.07
271.Test-SubCalls1.09
272.Test-Tester0.108
273.Test-use-ok0.11
274.Test-Warn0.24
275.Text-Diff1.41
276.Text-Glob0.09
277.Text-Patch1.8
278.Text-Soundex3.04
279.Text-Tabs+Wrap2012.0818
280.Thread-Queue3.02
281.threads-shared1.43
282.Tie-EncryptedHash1.24
283.Time-Local1.2300
284.TimeDate2.30
285.Tree-DAG_Node1.11
286.Try-Tiny0.12
287.Unicode-Collate0.97
288.Unicode-Normalize1.16
289.URI1.60
290.Variable-Magic0.52
291.version0.9901
292.Win320.47
293.Win32-API0.75
294.Win32-Console-ANSI1.04
295.Win32-EventLog0.076
296.Win32-Exe0.17
297.Win32-File0.06
298.Win32-File-Object0.02
299.Win32-OLE0.1709
300.Win32-Pipe0.024
301.Win32-Process0.14
302.Win32-TieRegistry0.26
303.Win32-UTCFileTime1.55
304.Win32-WinError0.03
305.Win32API-File0.1201
306.Win32API-Registry0.32
307.WWW-Mechanize1.72
308.WWW-RobotRules6.02
309.XML-LibXML2.0014
310.XML-LibXSLT1.80
311.XML-NamespaceSupport1.11
312.XML-Parser2.41
313.XML-SAX0.99
314.XML-SAX-Base1.08
315.XML-SAX-Expat0.40
316.XML-Simple2.20
317.YAML0.84
318.YAML-LibYAML0.39
319.YAML-Syck1.22
320.YAML-Tiny1.51

List of external tools and libraries included in Strawberry Perl: Collapse

IDPackageHomepageNote
1.binutils-2.22.52http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
2.db-5.3.21http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html
3.dmake-SVN20091127http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html
4.expat-2.1.0http://expat.sourceforge.net/
5.freeglut-2.8.0http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
6.freetype-2.4.10http://www.freetype.org/
7.gcc-4.6.3http://gcc.gnu.org/
8.gd-2.0.35http://www.libgd.org/statically linked with giflib-4.2.0
9.gdbm-1.8.3http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/
10.gendef-rev4724http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
11.gfortran-4.6.3http://gcc.gnu.org/
12.giflib-5.0.1http://giflib.sourceforge.net/
13.gmp-5.1.1http://gmplib.org/
14.jpeg-8dhttp://www.ijg.org/
15.libXpm-3.5.10http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xlibs
16.libiconv-1.14http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
17.libpng-1.5.13http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
18.libssh2-1.4.3http://www.libssh2.org
19.libxml2-2.9.0http://xmlsoft.org/
20.libxslt-1.1.28http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
21.make-3.82http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
22.mingw-w64-crt_2.x_r5421http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
23.mpc-1.0.1http://www.multiprecision.org/
24.mpfr-3.1.1http://www.mpfr.org/
25.mysql-5.1.44http://www.mysql.com/
26.openssl-1.0.1ehttp://www.openssl.org/
27.patch-2.5.9-7http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
28.pexports-0.44http://www.emmestech.com/software/pexports-0.43/download_pexports.html
29.postgresql-9.2.1http://www.postgresql.org/
30.pthreads-win32-2.9.0http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
31.t1lib-5.1.2http://www.t1lib.org/
32.tiff-4.0.3http://remotesensing.org/libtiff/
33.xz-5.0.4http://tukaani.org/xz/
34.zlib-1.2.7http://www.zlib.net/

Version details: Collapse

Perl version details:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.16.2.2 #1 Sat Feb 23 20:32:29 2013 i386'
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPL
ICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long long', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='g++.exe', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'
    libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib C:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib
    libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -
loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole
32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl516.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY
                        PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC
                        USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
                        USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
                        USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Feb 23 2013 20:39:51
  @INC:
    C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
    C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
    C:/strawberry/perl/lib
    .

Gcc version details:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\strawberry\c\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/strawberry/c/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.6.3/configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32
 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-lto --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking
=release --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-win32-reg
istry --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perlming
w.sf.net]' --with-sysroot=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-gmp=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-mpfr=/
gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-mpc=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-ppl=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --wi
th-cloog=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-bugurl=http://mingwfp.znix.com -
-with-gnu-ld --prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-local-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-l
ibiconv-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.6.3 (gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perlmingw.sf.net]) 

OpenSSL version details:

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Sun Feb 17 22:50:46 GMT 2013
platform: mingw
options:  bn(64,32) rc4(8x,mmx) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: gcc -D_WINDLL -DOPENSSL_USE_APPLINK -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_MT -DDSO_WIN
32 -DL_ENDIAN -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -march=i486 -Wall -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART
_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA
512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM