Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.18.2.1-64bit Release Notes

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 5.18.2: Collapse

ID	Distribution	Version	Note
1.	Algorithm-Diff	1.1902
2.	aliased	0.31
3.	Alien-Tidyp	v1.4.7
4.	Alt-Crypt-RSA-BigInt	0.05
5.	App-cpanminus	1.7001
6.	App-local-lib-Win32Helper	0.990
7.	App-module-version	1.004
8.	AppConfig	1.66
9.	Archive-Extract	0.70
10.	Archive-Tar	1.96
11.	Archive-Zip	1.36
12.	autodie	2.22
13.	AutoLoader	5.74
14.	B-Debug	1.19
15.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.12
16.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
17.	bareword-filehandles	0.003
18.	BerkeleyDB	0.54
19.	Bytes-Random-Secure	0.28
20.	Capture-Tiny	0.23
21.	Carp	1.32
22.	Carp-Clan	6.04
23.	CGI.pm	3.64
24.	Class-Accessor	0.34
25.	Class-ErrorHandler	0.03
26.	Class-Inspector	1.28
27.	Class-Load	0.20
28.	Class-Load-XS	0.06
29.	Class-Loader	2.03
30.	Class-Method-Modifiers	2.09
31.	Class-Singleton	1.4
32.	Class-Tiny	0.014
33.	Clone	0.36
34.	Clone-PP	1.02
35.	common-sense	3.72
36.	Compress-Bzip2	2.17
37.	Compress-Raw-Bzip2	2.063
38.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.063
39.	Compress-Raw-Zlib	2.063
40.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
41.	Config-Perl-V	0.19
42.	Context-Preserve	0.01
43.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
44.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
45.	Convert-PEM	0.08
46.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
47.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
48.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
49.	CPAN-Meta	2.133380
50.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.008
51.	CPAN-Meta-Requirements	2.125
52.	CPAN-Meta-YAML	0.010
53.	CPAN-Mini	1.111015
54.	CPAN-SQLite	0.203
55.	CPANPLUS	0.9144
56.	CPANPLUS-Dist-Build	0.74
57.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.14
58.	Crypt-CAST5_PP	1.04
59.	Crypt-CBC	2.33
60.	Crypt-DES	2.07
61.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
62.	Crypt-DH	0.07
63.	Crypt-DSA	1.17
64.	Crypt-IDEA	1.10
65.	Crypt-OpenSSL-AES	0.02	+fix for #77605
66.	Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum	0.04	+fix for #84369
67.	Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA	0.14	+fix for #84367
68.	Crypt-OpenSSL-Random	0.04	+fix for #56455
69.	Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA	0.28
70.	Crypt-Random-Seed	0.03
71.	Crypt-Random-TESHA2	0.01
72.	Crypt-Rijndael	1.11
73.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
74.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
75.	Crypt-Twofish	2.17
76.	Data-Buffer	0.04
77.	Data-Compare	1.23
78.	Data-Dump	1.22
79.	Data-OptList	0.109
80.	Data-Printer	0.35
81.	Data-Random	0.11
82.	DateTime	1.06
83.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
84.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.63
85.	DB_File	1.831
86.	DBD-ADO	2.99
87.	DBD-mysql	4.025
88.	DBD-ODBC	1.45
89.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
90.	DBD-SQLite	1.40
91.	DBI	1.630
92.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
93.	DBM-Deep	2.0010
94.	Devel-Declare	0.006014
95.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.12
96.	Devel-PartialDump	0.17
97.	Devel-PPPort	3.21
98.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
99.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
100.	Digest-MD2	2.03
101.	Digest-MD5	2.53
102.	Digest-SHA	5.85
103.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
104.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.10
105.	Encode	2.57
106.	Encode-Locale	1.03
107.	Eval-Closure	0.11
108.	ExtUtils-CBuilder	0.280212
109.	ExtUtils-Command	1.18
110.	ExtUtils-Config	0.007
111.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.306
112.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
113.	ExtUtils-Helpers	0.021
114.	ExtUtils-InstallPaths	0.010
115.	ExtUtils-MakeMaker	6.84
116.	ExtUtils-ParseXS	3.22
117.	FCGI	0.74
118.	File-chmod	0.40
119.	File-Fetch	0.46
120.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
121.	File-HomeDir	1.00
122.	File-Listing	6.04
123.	File-pushd	1.005
124.	File-Remove	1.52
125.	File-ShareDir	1.03
126.	File-Slurp	9999.19
127.	File-Temp	0.2304
128.	File-Which	1.09
129.	Filter	1.49
130.	GD	2.50
131.	Getopt-Long	2.42
132.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
133.	HTML-Form	6.03
134.	HTML-Parser	3.71
135.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
136.	HTML-Tree	5.03
137.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
138.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
139.	HTTP-Date	6.02
140.	HTTP-Message	6.06
141.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
142.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
143.	HTTP-Tiny	0.039
144.	Imager	0.98
145.	Import-Into	1.002000
146.	indirect	0.31
147.	IO-Compress	2.063
148.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.063
149.	IO-HTML	1.00
150.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
151.	IO-SessionData	1.03
152.	IO-Socket-INET6	2.71
153.	IO-Socket-IP	0.24
154.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.962
155.	IO-String	1.08
156.	IO-stringy	2.110
157.	IPC-Cmd	0.90
158.	IPC-Run	0.92
159.	IPC-Run3	0.046
160.	IPC-System-Simple	1.25
161.	JSON	2.90
162.	JSON-XS	3.01
163.	Lexical-SealRequireHints	0.007
164.	libnet	1.23
165.	libwww-perl	6.05
166.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
167.	local-lib	2.000004
168.	Locale-Codes	3.28
169.	Log-Message	0.08
170.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
171.	LWP-Online	1.08
172.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.04
173.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
174.	Math-GMP	2.06
175.	Math-Int64	0.30
176.	Math-MPC	1.00
177.	Math-MPFR	3.21
178.	Math-Prime-Util	0.35
179.	Math-Prime-Util-GMP	0.16
180.	Math-Random-ISAAC	1.004
181.	Math-Round	0.06
182.	MIME-Base64	3.14
183.	Module-Build	0.4203
184.	Module-Build	0.4005
185.	Module-Build-Tiny	0.030
186.	Module-Implementation	0.07
187.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.58
188.	Module-Metadata	1.000019
189.	Module-Pluggable	4.8
190.	Module-Runtime	0.013
191.	Moo	1.004002
192.	Moose	2.1005
193.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.27
194.	MooseX-Declare	0.38
195.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.10
196.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
197.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.47
198.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.24
199.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.02
200.	MooseX-Traits	0.12
201.	MooseX-Types	0.41
202.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.08
203.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.30
204.	Mozilla-CA	20130114
205.	MRO-Compat	0.12
206.	multidimensional	0.011
207.	namespace-autoclean	0.15
208.	namespace-clean	0.24
209.	Net-HTTP	6.06
210.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
211.	Net-SSH2	0.53
212.	Net-SSLeay	1.55
213.	Net-Telnet	3.04
214.	Number-Compare	0.03
215.	Object-Accessor	0.48
216.	Package-Constants	0.04
217.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
218.	Package-Stash	0.36
219.	Package-Stash-XS	0.28
220.	PAR	1.007
221.	PAR-Dist	0.49
222.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
223.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
224.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
225.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
226.	Params-Check	0.38
227.	Params-Util	1.07
228.	Params-Validate	1.08
229.	parent	0.228
230.	Parse-Binary	0.11
231.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4409
232.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003015
233.	Perl-OSType	1.006
234.	perlfaq	5.0150044
235.	pip	1.19
236.	pler	1.06
237.	Pod-Checker	1.70
238.	Pod-Parser	1.61
239.	Pod-Perldoc	3.20
240.	Pod-Usage	1.63
241.	podlators	2.5.3
242.	Portable	1.18
243.	PPI	1.215
244.	PPM	11.11_02
245.	Probe-Perl	0.03
246.	Role-Tiny	1.003002
247.	Scalar-List-Utils	1.35
248.	SOAP-Lite	1.08
249.	Socket	2.013
250.	Socket6	0.25
251.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
252.	Sort-Versions	1.5
253.	Storable	2.45
254.	strictures	1.005002
255.	String-CRC32	1.5
256.	Sub-Exporter	0.987
257.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001011
258.	Sub-Install	0.927
259.	Sub-Name	0.05
260.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
261.	Task-Weaken	1.04
262.	Template-Tiny	1.12
263.	Template-Toolkit	1.07
264.	Term-Cap	1.15
265.	Term-ReadLine	1.14
266.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
267.	Term-UI	0.42
269.	TermReadKey	2.31	+fix
269.	Test-CheckDeps	0.010
270.	Test-Deep	0.112
271.	Test-Differences	0.61
272.	Test-Exception	0.32
273.	Test-Fatal	0.013
274.	Test-Harness	3.30
275.	Test-Manifest	1.23
276.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
277.	Test-Object	0.07
278.	Test-Output	1.03
279.	Test-Requires	0.07
280.	Test-Script	1.07
281.	Test-Simple	1.001002
282.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
283.	Test-Tester	0.109
284.	Test-use-ok	0.11
285.	Test-Warn	0.24
286.	Text-Diff	1.41
287.	Text-Glob	0.09
288.	Text-ParseWords	3.29
289.	Text-Patch	1.8
290.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2013.0523
291.	threads	1.89
292.	threads-shared	1.45
293.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
294.	Time-HiRes	1.9726
295.	Time-Piece	1.26
296.	TimeDate	2.30
297.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.18
298.	Try-Tiny	0.18
299.	Types-Serialiser	1.0
300.	Unicode-Collate	1.04
301.	Unicode-Normalize	1.17
302.	URI	1.60
303.	Variable-Magic	0.53
304.	version	0.9904
305.	Win32	0.48
306.	Win32-API	0.75
307.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.06
308.	Win32-EventLog	0.077
309.	Win32-Exe	0.17
310.	Win32-File	0.07
311.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
312.	Win32-OLE	0.1711
313.	Win32-Pipe	0.025
314.	Win32-Process	0.16
315.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
316.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.56
317.	Win32-WinError	0.04
318.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
319.	WWW-Mechanize	1.73
320.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
321.	XML-LibXML	2.0108
322.	XML-LibXSLT	1.84
323.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
324.	XML-Parser	2.41
325.	XML-SAX	0.99
326.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
327.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.50
328.	XML-Simple	2.20
329.	YAML	0.88
330.	YAML-LibYAML	0.41
331.	YAML-Tiny	1.56

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

ID	Package	Homepage	Note
1.	binutils-2.23.2	http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
2.	db-6.0.20	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html
3.	dmake-SVN20091127	http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html
4.	expat-2.1.0	http://expat.sourceforge.net/
5.	freeglut-2.8.1	http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
6.	freetype-2.5.0.1	http://www.freetype.org/
7.	gcc-4.7.3	http://gcc.gnu.org/
8.	gdbm-1.8.3	http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/
9.	gendef-rev4724	http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
10.	gfortran-4.7.3	http://gcc.gnu.org/
11.	giflib-5.0.4	http://giflib.sourceforge.net/
12.	gmp-5.1.2	http://gmplib.org/
13.	jpeg-9	http://www.ijg.org/
14.	libXpm-3.5.10	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xlibs
15.	libgd-2.1.0	http://www.libgd.org/
16.	libiconv-1.14	http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
17.	libpng-1.6.3	http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
18.	libssh2-1.4.3	http://www.libssh2.org
19.	libxml2-2.9.1	http://xmlsoft.org/
20.	libxslt-1.1.28	http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
21.	make-3.82	http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
22.	mingw-w64-stable-2.0.8-r5746	http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
23.	mpc-1.0.1	http://www.multiprecision.org/
24.	mpfr-3.1.2	http://www.mpfr.org/
25.	mysql-5.1.44	http://www.mysql.com/
26.	openssl-1.0.1e	http://www.openssl.org/
27.	patch-2.5.9-7	http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
28.	pexports-0.44	http://www.emmestech.com/software/pexports-0.43/download_pexports.html
29.	postgresql-9.2.4	http://www.postgresql.org/
30.	pthreads-win32-2.10.0	http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
31.	t1lib-5.1.2	http://www.t1lib.org/
32.	tiff-4.0.3	http://remotesensing.org/libtiff/
33.	xz-5.0.5	http://tukaani.org/xz/
34.	zlib-1.2.8	http://www.zlib.net/

Version details: Collapse

Perl version details:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.2.1 #1 Tue Jan  7 22:32:35 2014 x64'
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLI
CIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, 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\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib C:\strawberry\c\lib\gcc\x86_64
-w64-mingw32\4.7.3
    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=libperl518.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_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_SAWAMPERSAND
                        USE_64_BIT_INT 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 Jan  7 2014 22:40:30
  %ENV:
    PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT="1"
  @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/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.7.3/configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-min
gw32 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-lto --enable-bootstrap --enable-chec
king=release --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-win32
-registry --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='release with patches / build 20130526 by strawberryper
l.com' --with-sysroot=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-gmp=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mpfr=/gccb
uild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mpc=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-ppl=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-c
loog=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-bugurl=http://mingwfp.znix.com --wit
h-gnu-ld --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-ppl-version-check --prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64
 --with-local-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-libiconv-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.7.3 (release with patches / build 20130526 by strawberryperl.com)

OpenSSL version details:

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Sat Aug 10 08:44:58 GMT 2013
platform: mingw64
options:  bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,2,long) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: gcc -D_WINDLL -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_MT -DDSO_WIN32 -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wal
l -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_
ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM
 -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM

Strawberry Perl (5.18.2.1-64bit) Release Notes