perldelta: entry for qr/\87/ bug fix

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index ebee21a..57dadbc 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -665,6 +665,13 @@ instance is supposed to be meaningful if a character appears more than
 once in C<I<SEARCHLIST>>.  Under some circumstances, the final instance
 was overriding all earlier ones.  [perl #113584]
 
+=item *
+
+Regular expressions like C<qr/\87/> previously silently inserted a NUL
+character, thus matching as if it had been written C<qr/\00087/>.  Now it
+matchs as if it had been written as C<qr/87/>, with a message that the
+sequence C<"\8"> is unrecognized.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems