09:17 tobez 

Upgrade to 5.8.7.  In addition:

    - add perl-after-upgrade utility to move around
      dependent packages
    - fix $0 expansion in use.perl [1]
    - enable threaded perl on amd64 [2]
    - always compile perl with -pthread [3]
    - fix errno issue in SDBM_File [4]
    - add support for // and err (defined-or) [5]
    - add WITH_DEBUGGING option [6]
    - fix suidperl symlink [7]
    - fix several small bugs in use.perl
    - print possible WITH_XXX flags (no OPTIONS support yet)

[1] Submitted by:       erwin, Niël Dogger <niel@introweb.nl>
[2] Nudged by:          Mike Schroll <FreeBSD@LogicX.us>
[3] Nudged by:          skv
[4] perl bug #35938
[5] Obtained from:      H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
[6] PR: 78811, submitted by:    skv
[7] PR: 80069, submitted by:    Sergey N. Voronkov <serg@tmn.ru>
    A different solution was actually implemented.

15:58 tobez 

Fix vulnerability in suidperl/sperl [CAN-2005-0155].
Fix buffer overflow in perl [CAN-2005-0156].
Bump PORTREVISION.
Upgrade from previous versions/revisions of lang/perl5.8 is recommended.

Submitted by:   Nicholas Clark <nick $at$ ccl4 org>