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Build 1401 is based on Perl 5.14.1 plus additional selected changes.
Bug Fixes and Changes since build 1400
Significant changes that have occurred in the Perl 5.14.1 release are documented in the perl5141delta manpage.
The PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI extension on Windows are working again in this release.
Most bundled modules have been updated to their latest released
version from CPAN. Use the ppm query
command to check the exact
version included in this release.
What's new in the 1400 Series
This build corresponds to the Perl 5.14.0 source code release.
The 1400 series builds of ActivePerl are not binary compatible with builds in the 600, 800, 1000 or 1200 series. Any extensions built using binaries from the ActivePerl 600, 800, 1000 or 1200 series will need to be recompiled. Note especially that this applies to PPM packages that may have been built for 600, 800, 1000 or 1200 series builds.
Significant changes that have occurred in the 5.14.0 release are documented in the perl5140delta manpage.
Compared to the latest ActivePerl in the 1200 series (ActivePerl 1204) the following additional non-core CPAN distributions are now bundled:
Encode-Locale Eval-Closure IO-Socket-SSL Mozilla-CA Net-SSLeay Package-Stash-XS PPIx-Regexp
The libwww-perl distribution has been split into many smaller distributions that are all included separately.
The Crypt-SSLeay distribution is no longer bundled.
The ActivePerl 1400 series is built as 64-bit binaries on Mac OS X. Since the Carbon API for Mac does not support 64-bit binaries the distributions that depended on it are not longer bundled. These were:
Mac-AppleEvents-Simple Mac-Apps-Launch Mac-Carbon Mac-Glue Mac-OSA-Simple
Most bundled distributions have been updated to their latest released
version from CPAN. Use the ppm query
command to check the exact
version included in this release.