In rare cases printing deeply nested lists overran a buffer

by one byte and on a few platforms segfaulted. (

would try to kill processes on exit that have pids ever

the current process with that pid was not actually its child.

The clipping region for a device was sometimes used in base

A packaging of the Perl script and modules for

or more elements, for those with large amounts

There is some support to produce manuals in ebook

an empty string which on some OSes means the

The backtick may now be escaped in strings, to allow names

now warn when an embedded nul is found in the input.  (Related to

which was puzzled by the behaviour in this unsupported

undocumented restriction of the Windows system call to

in this version.  (The usage will change in 3.1.0.)

locale-specific formats are used and caches the locale in use:

this can halve the time taken on OSes with slow system

recognize strings with marked encodings: this allows, for example,

UTF-8 French month names to be read on (French) Windows.

(some implementations did already, but GNU

however converted strings were not marked as being in UTF-8).  The

corrupt metadata files.  (A recurring problem with Debian package

Finalizers are marked to be run at garbage collection, but

run only at a somewhat safer later time (when interrupts are

checked).  This circumvents some problems with finalizers running

arbitrary code during garbage collection (the known instances being

The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.34.  This

fixes bugs and makes the behaviour closer to Perl 5.18.  In

file allows user control over the compression

header has been disabled in C++ code (it has caused

complex number constants.  (Reported by Yihui Xie.)

factor of 2 of the largest representable number could

infinite-loop.  (Reported by Ioannis Kosmidis.)

error on an empty (zero-length) raster.  (Reported by Ben North.)

properly.  (Reported by Magnus Thor Torfason.)

it properly when more than one line needed to be cut.  (Reported

Removing subclass back-references when S4 classes were