+<h2>2022 06 13</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- No significant bugs have been found since the last release but users
+ of programs which call the Perl::Tidy module should note the first
+ item below, which changes a default setting. The main change to
+ existing formatting is the second item below, which adds vertical
+ alignment to 'use' statements.
+
+- The flag --encode-output-strings, or -eos, is now set 'on' by default.
+ This has no effect on the use of the 'perltidy' binary script, but could
+ change the behavior of some programs which use the Perl::Tidy module on
+ files encoded in UTF-8. If any problems are noticed, an emergency fix
+ can be made by reverting to the old default by setting -neos. For
+ an explanation of why this change needs to be made see:
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/issues/92
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/docs/eos_flag.md
+
+- Added vertical alignment for qw quotes and empty parens in 'use'
+ statements (see issue #git 93). This new alignment is 'on' by default
+ and will change formatting as shown below. If this is not wanted it can
+ be turned off with the parameter -vxl='q' (--valign-exclude-list='q').
+
+ # old default, or -vxl='q'
+ use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
+ use Fcntl qw(O_RDONLY O_WRONLY O_EXCL O_CREAT);
+ use Symbol qw(gensym);
+ use Exporter ();
+
+ # new default
+ use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
+ use Fcntl qw(O_RDONLY O_WRONLY O_EXCL O_CREAT);
+ use Symbol qw(gensym);
+ use Exporter ();
+
+- The parameter -kbb (--keep-break-before) now ignores a request to break
+ before an opening token, such as '('. Likewise, -kba (--keep-break-after)
+ now ignores a request to break after a closing token, such as ')'. This
+ change was made to avoid a rare instability discovered in random testing.
+
+- Previously, if a -dsc command was used to delete all side comments,
+ then any special side comments for controlling non-indenting braces got
+ deleted too. Now, these control side comments are retained when -dsc is
+ set unless a -nnib (--nonon-indenting-braces) flag is also set to
+ deactivate them.
+
+- This version runs about 10 percent faster on large files than the previous
+ release due to optimizations made with the help of Devel::NYTProf. Much
+ of the gain came from faster processing of blank tokens and comments.
+
+- This version of perltidy was stress-tested for many cpu hours with
+ random input parameters. No failures to converge, internal fault checks,
+ undefined variable references or other irregularities were seen.
+</code></pre>
+