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Strawberry Perl (5.16.2.1-64bit) Release Notes

Released: Nov 2 2012

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.aliased0.30
3.Alien-Tidypv1.4.7
4.Any-Moose0.18
5.App-Cpan1.5902
6.App-cpanminus1.5018+fix for issue 132
7.App-local-lib-Win32Helper0.990
8.App-module-version1.004
9.AppConfig1.66
10.Archive-Extract0.60
11.Archive-Tar1.90
12.Archive-Zip1.30
13.autodie2.12
14.AutoLoader5.73
15.B-Debug1.18
16.B-Hooks-EndOfScope0.11
17.B-Hooks-OP-Check0.19
18.BerkeleyDB0.51
19.bignum0.30
20.Capture-Tiny0.20
21.Carp-Clan6.04
22.CGI.pm3.60
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-Singleton1.4
30.Clone0.31
31.Clone-PP1.02
32.common-sense3.6
33.Compress-Bzip22.09
34.Compress-Raw-Bzip22.055
35.Compress-Raw-Lzma2.055
36.Compress-Raw-Zlib2.056
37.Compress-unLZMA0.04
38.Context-Preserve0.01
39.Convert-ASCII-Armour1.4
40.Convert-ASN10.26
41.Convert-PEM0.08
42.CPAN-Checksums2.08
43.CPAN-DistnameInfo0.12
44.CPAN-Inject1.14
45.CPAN-Meta2.120921
46.CPAN-Meta-Check0.004
47.CPAN-Meta-Requirements2.122
48.CPAN-Meta-YAML0.008
49.CPAN-Mini1.111010
50.CPAN-SQLite0.202
51.CPANPLUS0.9133
52.CPANPLUS-Dist-Build0.64
53.Crypt-Blowfish2.12+fix for #55173
54.Crypt-CAST5_PP1.04
55.Crypt-CBC2.31
56.Crypt-DES2.05
57.Crypt-DES_EDE30.01
58.Crypt-DH0.07
59.Crypt-DSA1.17
60.Crypt-IDEA1.08+fix for #55158
61.Crypt-Rijndael1.11
62.Crypt-RIPEMD1600.05
63.Crypt-SSLeay0.64
64.Crypt-Twofish2.15
65.Data-Buffer0.04
66.Data-Compare1.22
67.Data-Dump1.21
68.Data-Dumper2.136
69.Data-OptList0.107
70.Data-Printer0.33
71.Data-Random0.08
72.DateTime0.77
73.DateTime-Locale0.45
74.DateTime-TimeZone1.52
75.DB_File1.827
76.DBD-ADO2.99
77.DBD-mysql4.022
78.DBD-ODBC1.41
79.DBD-Pg2.19.3
80.DBD-SQLite1.37
81.DBI1.622
82.DBIx-Simple1.35
83.DBM-Deep2.0008
84.Devel-Declare0.006011
85.Devel-GlobalDestruction0.09
86.Devel-PartialDump0.15
87.Digest-BubbleBabble0.02
88.Digest-HMAC1.03
89.Digest-MD22.03
90.Digest-MD52.52
91.Digest-SHA5.73
92.Digest-SHA12.13
93.Dist-CheckConflicts0.02
94.Encode2.47
95.Encode-Locale1.03
96.Eval-Closure0.08
97.Exporter5.67
98.ExtUtils-Depends0.304
99.ExtUtils-F771.17
100.FCGI0.74
101.File-chmod0.32
102.File-Copy-Recursive0.38
103.File-Fetch0.36
104.File-Find-Rule0.33
105.File-HomeDir1.00
106.File-Listing6.04
107.File-pushd1.002
108.File-Remove1.52
109.File-ShareDir1.03
110.File-Slurp9999.19
111.File-Which1.09
112.Filter1.45
113.GD2.46+fix for #67990
114.Hook-LexWrap0.24
115.HTML-Form6.03
116.HTML-Parser3.69
117.HTML-Tagset3.20
118.HTML-Tree5.03
119.HTTP-Cookies6.01
120.HTTP-Daemon6.01
121.HTTP-Date6.02
122.HTTP-Message6.06
123.HTTP-Negotiate6.01
124.HTTP-Server-Simple0.44
125.HTTP-Tiny0.024
126.Imager0.93
127.IO-Compress2.055
128.IO-Compress-Lzma2.055
129.IO-HTML0.04
130.IO-Interactive0.0.6
131.IO-Socket-IP0.17
132.IO-Socket-SSL1.77
133.IO-String1.08
134.IO-stringy2.110
135.IPC-Cmd0.78
136.IPC-Run0.92
137.IPC-Run30.045
138.IPC-System-Simple1.21
139.JSON2.53
140.JSON-XS2.33
141.libwww-perl6.04
142.List-MoreUtils0.33
143.local-lib1.008004
144.Locale-Codes3.23
145.LWP-MediaTypes6.02
146.LWP-Online1.08
147.LWP-Protocol-https6.03
148.Math-BigInt-GMP1.37
149.Math-GMP2.06
150.Math-Int640.26
151.Math-MPC1.00
152.Math-MPFR3.16
153.Math-Round0.06
154.Memoize1.03
155.Module-Build0.4003
156.Module-Implementation0.06
157.Module-Load-Conditional0.54
158.Module-Metadata1.000011
159.Module-Pluggable4.3
160.Module-Runtime0.013
161.Moose2.0604
162.MooseX-ClassAttribute0.26
163.MooseX-Declare0.35
164.MooseX-LazyRequire0.08
165.MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion0.01
166.MooseX-Method-Signatures0.43
167.MooseX-NonMoose0.22
168.MooseX-Role-Parameterized1.00
169.MooseX-Traits0.11
170.MooseX-Types0.35
171.MooseX-Types-DateTime0.07
172.MooseX-Types-Structured0.28
173.Mozilla-CA20120823
174.MRO-Compat0.11
175.namespace-autoclean0.13
176.namespace-clean0.23
177.Net-HTTP6.03
178.Net-SMTP-TLS0.12
179.Net-SSH20.45
180.Net-SSLeay1.49
181.Net-Telnet3.03
182.Number-Compare0.03
183.Object-Accessor0.44
184.Package-DeprecationManager0.13
185.Package-Stash0.33
186.Package-Stash-XS0.25
187.PAR1.007
188.PAR-Dist0.49
189.PAR-Dist-FromPPD0.03
190.PAR-Dist-InstallPPD0.02
191.PAR-Repository-Client0.25
192.PAR-Repository-Query0.14
193.Params-Check0.36
194.Params-Util1.07
195.Params-Validate1.07
196.Parse-Binary0.11
197.Parse-CPAN-Meta1.4404
198.Parse-Method-Signatures1.003014
199.perlfaq5.0150041
200.PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint0.07
201.pip1.19
202.pler1.06
203.Pod-Simple3.23
204.podlators2.4.2
205.Portable1.17
206.PPI1.215
207.PPM11.11_02
208.Probe-Perl0.01
209.Safe2.33
210.Search-Dict1.07
211.SOAP-Lite0.715
212.Socket2.006
213.Sort-Naturally1.03
214.Sort-Versions1.5
215.Storable2.39
216.String-CRC321.4
217.Sub-Exporter0.984
218.Sub-Exporter-Progressive0.001006
219.Sub-Install0.926
220.Sub-Name0.05
221.Sub-Uplevel0.24
222.Task-Weaken1.04
223.Template-Tiny1.12
224.Template-Toolkit2.24
225.Term-ANSIColor3.02
226.Term-ReadLine1.10
227.Term-ReadLine-Perl1.0303
228.TermReadKey2.30.02
229.Test-CheckDeps0.002
230.Test-Deep0.110
231.Test-Differences0.61
232.Test-Exception0.31
233.Test-Fatal0.010
234.Test-Harness3.25
235.Test-Manifest1.23
236.Test-NoWarnings1.04
237.Test-Object0.07
238.Test-Output1.01
239.Test-Requires0.06
240.Test-Script1.07
241.Test-SubCalls1.09
242.Test-Tester0.108
243.Test-use-ok0.11
244.Test-Warn0.24
245.Text-Diff1.41
246.Text-Glob0.09
247.Text-Patch1.8
248.Text-Tabs+Wrap2012.0818
249.threads-shared1.42
250.Tie-EncryptedHash1.24
251.Time-Local1.2300
252.TimeDate1.20
253.Tree-DAG_Node1.06
254.Try-Tiny0.11
255.Unicode-Collate0.90
256.Unicode-Normalize1.15
257.URI1.60
258.Variable-Magic0.51
259.version0.9901
260.Win320.45
261.Win32-API0.73
262.Win32-Console-ANSI1.04
263.Win32-EventLog0.076
264.Win32-Exe0.17
265.Win32-File0.06
266.Win32-File-Object0.02
267.Win32-OLE0.1709
268.Win32-Pipe0.024
269.Win32-Process0.14
270.Win32-TieRegistry0.26
271.Win32-UTCFileTime1.55
272.Win32-WinError0.03
273.Win32API-Registry0.32
274.WWW-Mechanize1.72
275.WWW-RobotRules6.02
276.XML-LibXML2.0009
277.XML-LibXSLT1.78
278.XML-NamespaceSupport1.11
279.XML-Parser2.41
280.XML-SAX0.99
281.XML-SAX-Base1.08
282.XML-SAX-Expat0.40
283.XML-Simple2.20
284.YAML0.84
285.YAML-LibYAML0.38
286.YAML-Syck1.21
287.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-5.0.5http://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.libssh2-1.4.2http://www.libssh2.org
19.libxml2-2.9.0http://xmlsoft.org/
20.libxslt-1.1.27http://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-1.0.1chttp://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-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.16.2.1 #1 Fri Nov  2 03:03:35 2012 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 -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', 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
    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_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 Nov  2 2012 03:12:17
  @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-mingw32/4.6.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.6.3/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='gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perl
mingw.sf.net]' --with-sysroot=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-gmp=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mp
fr=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mpc=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-ppl=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 
--with-cloog=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-bugurl=http://mingwfp.znix.c
om --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-local-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --wi
th-libiconv-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64
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 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
built on: Wed Oct 17 00:20:16 GMT 2012
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