ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of ActivePerl 5.8.7.815.

ActivePerl 5.8.7.815 is available from:
    http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl

We welcome any and all feedback to:
    ActivePerl-feedback@[...].com

Please file bugs against ActivePerl at:
    http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl


Changes and Bug Fixes
----------------------

* Windows version includes PerlEx for IIS.

* HTML help and TOC are always updated when a module is installed,
  by PPM, by CPAN shell, or even when installed manually.

* On Windows and Mac OS X sample code in the HTML docs has syntax 
  highlighting.

* On Windows ActivePerl will automatically use MinGW to compile modules
  if Microsoft VC++ is not installed, but MinGW and dmake are.

* Security vulnerability CAN-2005-0448 has been addressed by replacing
  the rmtree() function in File::Path.

* The following modules have been updated:

    Archive-Tar-1.26
    Archive-Zip-1.16
    Compress-Zlib-1.41
    HTML-Parser-3.46
    IO-String-1.07
    libwin32-0.26
    Mac-Apps-Launch-1.92
    Mac-OSA-Simple-1.09
    Time-HiRes-1.76
    Unicode-String-1.09

  There are several fixes and new features for Windows in the updated
  libwin32 module. 
  
For a complete list of changes, see:
    http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.8/changes-58.html


Cheers,
-Jan


PS: Build 814 was identical to build 813 except for the addition of
    a beta version of PerlEx.
 
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