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Strawberry Perl Release Notes

Version 5.14.2.1-64bit, released 23 Nov 2011

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.

What's new in Strawberry Perl 5.14.2.1-64bit: Collapse

Currently the latest perl-5.14.2

Upgraded gcc toolchain + external libraries + perl modules installed on top of perl core.

Cosmetic changes concerning Start Menu + README.txt

Improved updating of PATH environment variable during MSI installation.

MSI application name changed to "Strawberry Perl (64-bit)"

Newly introducing 64bit portable edition.


Known issues: Collapse


List of distributions added to Perl 5.14.2: Collapse

DistributionVersionLink
Algorithm-Diff1.1902Source
Alien-Tidyp1.4.7Source
App-local-lib-Win32Helper0.990Source
Archive-Extract0.58Source
Archive-Tar1.80Source
Archive-Zip1.30Source
Attribute-Handlers0.91Source
BerkeleyDB0.49Source
bignum0.29Source
Capture-Tiny0.11Source
Carp1.23Source
CGI.pm3.58Source
Class-ErrorHandler0.01Source
Class-Inspector1.25Source
Class-Loader2.03Source
common-sense3.4Source
Compress-Bzip22.09Source
Compress-Raw-Bzip22.042Source
Compress-Raw-Lzma2.042Source
Compress-Raw-Zlib2.042Source
Compress-unLZMA0.04Source
Convert-ASCII-Armour1.4Source
Convert-ASN10.22Source
Convert-PEM0.08Source
CPAN1.9800Source
CPAN-Checksums2.08Source
CPAN-DistnameInfo0.12Source
CPAN-Inject1.13Source
CPAN-Meta2.112621Source
CPAN-Meta-YAML0.004Source
CPAN-SQLite0.202Source
CPANPLUS0.9112Source
CPANPLUS-Dist-Build0.60Source
Crypt-Blowfish2.12 (+fix for #55173)Source
Crypt-CAST5_PP1.04Source
Crypt-CBC2.30Source
Crypt-DES2.05Source
Crypt-DES_EDE30.01Source
Crypt-DH0.06Source
Crypt-DSA1.17Source
Crypt-IDEA1.08 (+fix for #55158)Source
Crypt-Rijndael1.09Source
Crypt-RIPEMD1600.05Source
Crypt-SSLeay0.58Source
Crypt-Twofish2.14Source
Data-Buffer0.04Source
Data-Compare1.22Source
Data-Dumper2.131Source
Data-Random0.06Source
DB_File1.824Source
DBD-ADO2.99Source
DBD-mysql4.020 (+fix for #71047)Source
DBD-ODBC1.31Source
DBD-Pg2.18.1Source
DBD-SQLite1.33Source
DBI1.616Source
DBIx-Simple1.35Source
DBM-Deep2.0004Source
Devel-DProf20110802.00Source
Devel-PPPort3.20Source
Digest1.17Source
Digest-BubbleBabble0.02Source
Digest-HMAC1.03Source
Digest-MD22.03Source
Digest-SHA5.63Source
Digest-SHA12.13Source
Encode2.44Source
Encode-Locale1.02Source
Env1.03Source
Exporter5.65Source
ExtUtils-MakeMaker6.62Source
ExtUtils-Manifest1.60Source
ExtUtils-ParseXS3.05Source
FCGI0.74Source
File-chmod0.32Source
File-Find-Rule0.33Source
File-HomeDir0.98Source
File-Listing6.03Source
File-pushd1.001Source
File-Remove1.51Source
File-ShareDir1.03Source
File-Slurp9999.19Source
File-Which1.09Source
Filter1.39Source
Filter-Simple0.87Source
GD2.46 (+fix for #67990)Source
HTML-Parser3.69Source
HTML-Tagset3.20Source
HTTP-Cookies6.00Source
HTTP-Daemon6.00Source
HTTP-Date6.00Source
HTTP-Message6.02Source
HTTP-Negotiate6.00Source
HTTP-Tiny0.016Source
Imager0.86Source
IO-Compress2.042Source
IO-Compress-Lzma2.042Source
IO-Interactive0.0.6Source
IO-Socket-SSL1.49Source
IO-String1.08Source
IO-stringy2.110Source
IPC-Cmd0.72Source
IPC-Run0.90Source
IPC-Run30.044Source
IPC-System-Simple1.21Source
JSON2.53Source
JSON-PP2.27200Source
JSON-XS2.32Source
libwww-perl6.03Source
local-lib1.008004Source
Locale-Codes3.18Source
Locale-Maketext1.19Source
LWP-MediaTypes6.01Source
LWP-Online1.08Source
LWP-Protocol-https6.02Source
Math-BigInt1.997Source
Math-BigInt-FastCalc0.30Source
Math-BigInt-GMP1.37Source
Math-Complex1.58Source
Math-GMP2.06Source
Math-MPC0.91Source
Math-MPFR3.10Source
Module-Build0.3800Source
Module-CoreList2.57Source
Module-Load0.22Source
Module-Load-Conditional0.46Source
Module-Metadata1.000007Source
Mozilla-CA20111025Source
Net-HTTP6.01Source
Net-SMTP-TLS0.12Source
Net-SSH20.40Source
Net-SSLeay1.42Source
Number-Compare0.03Source
Object-Accessor0.42Source
PAR1.002Source
PAR-Dist0.48Source
PAR-Dist-FromPPD0.03Source
PAR-Dist-InstallPPD0.02Source
PAR-Repository-Client0.25Source
PAR-Repository-Query0.14Source
Params-Check0.32Source
Params-Util1.04Source
Parse-Binary0.11Source
pip1.19Source
pler1.06Source
Pod-Simple3.19Source
Probe-Perl0.01Source
SOAP-Lite0.714Source
Sort-Versions1.5Source
Storable2.30Source
String-CRC321.4Source
Sub-Uplevel0.22Source
Task-Weaken1.04Source
Term-ANSIColor3.01Source
Term-ReadLine-Perl1.0303Source
TermReadKey2.30.02Source
Test-Deep0.108Source
Test-Exception0.31Source
Test-Manifest1.23Source
Test-NoWarnings1.03Source
Test-Script1.07Source
Test-Tester0.107Source
Test-Warn0.23Source
Text-Diff1.41Source
Text-Glob0.09Source
threads1.85Source
threads-shared1.40Source
Tie-EncryptedHash1.24Source
Time-HiRes1.9724Source
Tree-DAG_Node1.06Source
Unicode-Collate0.84Source
Unicode-Normalize1.13Source
URI1.59Source
version0.95Source
Win32-API0.64Source
Win32-EventLog0.076Source
Win32-Exe0.17Source
Win32-File0.06Source
Win32-File-Object0.02Source
Win32-OLE0.1709Source
Win32-Process0.14Source
Win32-TieRegistry0.26Source
Win32-UTCFileTime1.52Source
Win32-WinError0.03Source
Win32API-File0.1200Source
Win32API-Registry0.32Source
WWW-RobotRules6.01Source
XML-LibXML1.88Source
XML-LibXSLT1.75Source
XML-NamespaceSupport1.11Source
XML-Parser2.41Source
XML-SAX0.99Source
XML-SAX-Base1.08Source
XML-Simple2.18Source
XSLoader0.15Source
YAML0.77Source
YAML-Tiny1.50Source

The list of packages related to gcc-toolchain and external libraries included in Strawberry Perl:

PackageHomepageLinkComment
binutils-2.21.90http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/Source
db-5.1.25http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.htmlSource
dmake-SVN20091127http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.htmlSource
expat-2.0.1http://expat.sourceforge.net/Source
freeglut-2.6.0http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/Source
freetype-2.4.4http://www.freetype.org/Source
gcc-4.4.7-prereleasehttp://gcc.gnu.org/Sourcev4.6.2 + patches (svn rev.180339)
gd-2.0.35http://www.libgd.org/Sourcelinked with libjpg-v6 - see #49053
gdbm-1.8.3http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/Source
giflib-4.1.6http://giflib.sourceforge.net/Source
gmp-5.0.1http://gmplib.org/Source
jpeg-8chttp://www.ijg.org/Source
libXpm-3.5.9http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xlibsSource
libiconv-1.13.1http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/Source
libpng-1.5.2http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.htmlSource
libssh2-1.2.8http://www.libssh2.orgSource
libxml2-2.7.8http://xmlsoft.org/Source
libxslt-1.1.26http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/Source
make-3.82http://www.gnu.org/software/make/Source
mingw-w64-crthttp://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/Sourcev1.0.1 (svn rev.4560) + OpenGL/OpenCL headers
mpc-0.9http://www.multiprecision.org/Source
mpfr-3.0.1http://www.mpfr.org/Source
mysql-5.1.44http://www.mysql.com/Source
openssl-1.0.0dhttp://www.openssl.org/Source
patch-2.5.9-7http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htmSource
pexports-0.44http://www.emmestech.com/software/pexports-0.43/download_pexports.htmlSource
postgresql-9.0.4http://www.postgresql.org/Source
tiff-3.9.5http://remotesensing.org/libtiff/Source
xz-5.0.2http://tukaani.org/xz/Source
zlib-1.2.5http://www.zlib.net/Source