ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003, a
complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

This build is based on the release version of Perl 5.10.0.

For detailed information or to download this release, see:

  http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl

New in ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
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* ActivePerl::Config on Windows now dynamically sets the
  $Config{ccversion} to the version of cl.exe. This allows
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate and embed manifest files
  into extension DLL when required by the specific version of
  the C compiler.

* The GCC support for Windows in ActivePerl::Config now adds the
  -mms- bitfields option to the ccflags when compiling with GCC.
  This forces identical struct layouts with Visual C++, which is
  used to compile ActivePerl itself. This has become important
  because core Perl 5.10 now uses bit-fields for some important
  structures.

* On OS X the supplied sitecustomize.pl script adds the
  ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib directory to @INC, and PPM will
  install into this directory by default because the
  /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib directory isn't writable
  without sudo. Unfortunately ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib was also
  used by ActivePerl 5.8, so you could end up with a mixture of
  5.8 and 5.10 modules in that directory. This release uses
  ~/Library/ActivePerl-5.10/lib as a per-user Perl 5.10 specific
  module area.

* Signal handling code would segfault with some Linux kernel and
  glibc versions. This problem has been fixed.

* On Windows there is a special form of them system() function to
  start processes asynchronously: system(1, $cmd). It returns the
  process id instead of the exit status so that the spawning
  application can eventually use waitpid() to wait for the
  external process to terminate. Previous Perl releases only
  returned the lower 16 bits of the process id; this version
  returns all 32 bits.

* The following modules have been added to ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003:

      Algorithm-Diff-1.1902
      Bit-Vector-6.4
      Carp-Clan-6.00
      Class-Accessor-0.31
      Crypt-SSLeay-0.57
      DBD-CSV-0.22
      DBD-ODBC-1.15
      DBD-Oracle-1.21
      Date-Calc-5.4
      File-HomeDir-0.69
      File-Which-0.05
      GD-2.39
      GD-Graph-1.4308
      GD-Text-0.86
      JSON-2.09
      JSON-XS-2.2
      Net-Telnet-3.03
      PPM-Repositories-0.14
      SQL-Statement-1.15
      Sub-Uplevel-0.1901
      Test-Differences-0.47
      Test-Exception-0.27
      Text-CSV_XS-0.45
      Text-Diff-0.35
      Text-Glob-0.08
      WWW-Mechanize-1.34-r1
      Win32-API-0.55
      YAML-LibYAML-0.26

  The DBD::Oracle module is only included in the 32-bit releases of
  ActivePerl for Windows and Linux. It does not include the Oracle
  client libraries; instead it requires that either the regular
  client libraries or the Oracle Instant Client is already
  installed on configured on the system.

  ActiveState recommends DBI and DBD::ODBC for accessing databases
  using ODBC. The Win32::ODBC module continues to be provided for
  backwards compatibility, but new code should exclusively use
  DBD::ODBC.

  The PPM-Repositories module supplies a list of PPM repositories
  provided by sources outside ActiveState. It makes it easier to
  discover and configure additional repositories in PPM. For
  example you can display a list of repositories available for the
  current platform with:

      ppm repo suggest

  Adding e.g. the University of Winnipeg repository maintained by Randy
  Kobes is then as easy as:

      ppm repo add uwinnipeg

  The PPM-Repositories list is used by the PPM GUI client as well.

* The following modules have been updated to their latest version:

      DBI upgraded from 1.601 to 1.604
      HTML-Tagset upgraded from 3.10 to 3.20
      LWP upgraded from 5.808 to 5.812-r1
      URI upgraded from 1.35 to 1.36

* The libwin32 module collection has been replaced by its
  individual modules. This will make it easier to update these
  modules via PPM in the future:

      Win32-Clipboard
      Win32-Console
      Win32-EventLog
      Win32-File
      Win32-FileSecurity
      Win32-IPC
      Win32-Internet
      Win32-Job
      Win32-NetAdmin
      Win32-NetResource
      Win32-ODBC
      Win32-OLE
      Win32-PerfLib
      Win32-Process
      Win32-Registry
      Win32-Service
      Win32-Shortcut
      Win32-Sound
      Win32-TieRegistry
      Win32-WinError
      Win32API-File
      Win32API-Net
      Win32API-Registry

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