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## Changes from version 20250912 to version 20260109

    - A new parameter --break-at-old-trailing-loops, or -botl, keeps
      existing line breaks at these trailing loop control keywords:
         'for', 'foreach', 'while', 'until'.

      This is the default. For example, given the following two input lines:

        FindExt::scan_ext("../$_")
          foreach qw(cpan dist ext);

      The new default keeps two lines. The previous version flattened the
      statement, since it fits on a single line:

        FindExt::scan_ext("../$_") foreach qw(cpan dist ext);

      Use -nbotl to deactivate this new option.

    - A related new parameter --break-at-old-trailing-conditionals, or -botc
      keeps existing line breaks at trailing conditional control keywords:

          'if', 'unless'.

      This is the default.  The capability was previously handled by
      parameter --break-at-old-logical-breakpoints, or -bol, which was also
      true by default, but which also also controls logical breakpoints,
      such as '&&'. This change simplifies the input.

      Use -nbotc to deactivate this option.

    - A new switch --blanks-before-opening-comments, -bboc, has been added
      for issue git #192.  This is on by default and allows perltidy to insert
      a blank line before full-line comments which start at a new indentation
      level.  Use the negated form to prevent such blank lines, -nbboc
      or --noblanks-before-opening-comments

    - A new parameter --dump-keyword-usage, or -dku, can be used to dump a
      list of the the perl builtin keywords used in a file. A companion flag
      --dump-keyword-usage-list=s can be used to give a specific list of
      keywords or user functions to be included in the list.

    - When the -html option is used with the default --pod2html setting,
      perltidy will look for a pod-to-html formatter in this order:
      Pod::Simple::XHTML, Pod::Simple::HTML, and Pod::Html.  A preferred
      formatter can be selected with --use-pod-formatter=s. Previously
      the only option was Pod::Html, and it can still be selected with
      --use-pod-formatter="Pod::Html". The reason for this update is
      that this older formatter has limitations, and requires the
      creation of a temporary file for data transfer. This update also
      allows formatting of pod text containing non-ascii characters.

    - When perltidy is run with the -html option, and pod is rendered to html
      with Pod::Html, the pod2html option 'backlink' could not be set in
      in previous versions due to a programming error. This has been fixed.
      This setting can now be made by giving perltidy the flag '--podbacklink'.

    - The default for --timeout-in-seconds is reduced from 10 to 5 seconds.
      A default value of 10 seemed excessive. It can be changed with -tos=n.

    - The option --delete-weld-interfering-commas, or -dwic, has been
      made much more accurate. It now makes fewer unnecessary comma deletions.

    - This version does more extensive checking of all string input parameters
      and will exit early on an error.  The intention is to catch input errors
      as early as possible.

    - Fixed issue with --dump-mixed-call-parens. A trailing statement modifier
      such as the following 'if' was incorrectly being counted as having parens:

        return $class if ($old_quote - $new_quote) == 0;
Source: README.txt, updated 2026-01-08