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Changes for version 2.154

  • Most notably, this release fixes CVE-2014-4330:
    • Don't recurse infinitely in Data::Dumper
    • Add a configuration variable/option to limit recursion when dumping deep data structures.
    • ...
      • This patch addresses CVE-2014-4330. This bug was found and reported by: LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH employee Markus Vervier.
  • On top of that, there are several minor big fixes and improvements, see "git log" if the core perl distribution for details.

Documentation

Modules

stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval