ActiveState is pleased to announce the releases of ActivePerl
5.6.1.635 and 5.8.0.805.

For more information, scroll down or click here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl

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New in ActivePerl 5.6.1.635

* On Linux, the crypt() builtin did not return consistent results.
   This has been corrected.

* The reval() and rdo() methods in the Safe module could be
   subverted into executing unsafe code by the callee. This problem
   has been corrected.

* Other bug fixes and changes as outlined in the release notes.


New in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805

* Several bug fixes and other improvements have been merged from
   the Perl development track. In particular, many of these fixes
   address weaknesses in Unicode support. See the ActivePerl source
   code diff for the complete list of included changes.

* Bugs in the Perl 5.8 integration of Perl for ISAPI and
   PerlScript that resulted in failure to flush output correctly at
   the termination of the script have been fixed.

* On Windows, system() and backticks could return invalid status
   when running under environments where the process has to handle
   Windows messages. PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI fall under this
   category. The problem has been corrected.

* On Windows, PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI were affected by a
   reentrancy problem, which meant that recursive invocation of
   these two engines could fail. This problem has been corrected.

* Tk and libwww-perl has been updated to their latest versions.

* Win32::Shortcut no longer calls CoUninitialize() within an END
   block. This avoids random coredumps from this module when its
   DESTROY methods happen to get called after the END block
   executes.

* PPM v2 and v3 can now optionally generate HTML documentation
   when installing packages if POD documentation is found in the
   package. This is controlled by the rebuildhtml option in PPM v2
   and the rebuild-html option in PPM v3.

* Other minor bug fixes and documentation updates.

Both releases are available for download here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl/download


Enjoy!

The ActivePerl Team, ActiveState
http://www.ActiveState.com


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