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There have been quite a few changes made to DB_File. Here are a few of the highlights:

Fixed a handful of bugs.
By public demand, added support for the standard hash function exists().
Made it compatible with Berkeley DB 1.86.
Made negative subscripts work with RECNO interface.
Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR and the default mode from 0640 to 0666.
Made DB_File automatically import the open() constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl, if available.
Updated documentation.

Refer to the HISTORY section in DB_File.pm for a complete list of changes. Everything after DB_File 1.01 has been added since 5.003.

Source: what's new for perl5.004
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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