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C<Module::Loaded>, by Jos Boumans, has been added. It's used to mark
modules as loaded or unloaded.

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C<Package::Constants>, by Jos Boumans, has been added. It's a simple
helper to list all constants declared in a given package.

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C<Win32API::File>, by Tye McQueen, has been added (for Windows builds).
This module provides low-level access to Win32 system API calls for
files/dirs.

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C<Locale::Maketext::Simple>, needed by CPANPLUS, is a simple wrapper around
C<Locale::Maketext::Lexicon>. Note that C<Locale::Maketext::Lexicon> isn't
included in the perl core; the behaviour of C<Locale::Maketext::Simple>
gracefully degrades when the later isn't present.

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C<Params::Check> implements a generic input parsing/checking mechanism. It
is used by CPANPLUS.

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C<Term::UI> simplifies the task to ask questions at a terminal prompt.

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C<Object::Accessor> provides an interface to create per-object accessors.

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C<Module::Pluggable> is a simple framework to create modules that accept
pluggable sub-modules.

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C<Module::Load::Conditional> provides simple ways to query and possibly
load installed modules.

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C<Time::Piece> provides an object oriented interface to time functions,
overriding the built-ins localtime() and gmtime().

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C<IPC::Cmd> helps to find and run external commands, possibly
interactively.

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C<File::Fetch> provide a simple generic file fetching mechanism.

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C<Log::Message> and C<Log::Message::Simple> are used by the log facility
of C<CPANPLUS>.

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C<Archive::Extract> is a generic archive extraction mechanism
for F<.tar> (plain, gzipped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.

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C<CPANPLUS> provides an API and a command-line tool to access the CPAN
mirrors.

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C<Pod::Escapes> provides utilities that are useful in decoding Pod
EE<lt>...E<gt> sequences.

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C<Pod::Simple> is now the backend for several of the Pod-related modules
included with Perl.

=back

=head2 Selected Changes to Core Modules

=over 4

=item C<Attribute::Handlers>

C<Attribute::Handlers> can now report the caller's file and line number.
(David Feldman)

All interpreted attributes are now passed as array references. (Damian
Conway)

=item C<B::Lint>

C<B::Lint> is now based on C<Module::Pluggable>, and so can be extended
with plugins. (Joshua ben Jore)

=item C<B>

It's now possible to access the lexical pragma hints (C<%^H>) by using the
method B::COP::hints_hash(). It returns a C<B::RHE> object, which in turn
can be used to get a hash reference via the method B::RHE::HASH(). (Joshua
ben Jore)

=item C<Thread>

As the old 5005thread threading model has been removed, in favor of the
ithreads scheme, the C<Thread> module is now a compatibility wrapper, to
be used in old code only. It has been removed from the default list of
dynamic extensions.

=back

=head1 Utility Changes

=over 4