• fixed compilation errors on Mac OS X: bugs 12389, 15829
  
• avoid hanging under CPAN tools by using EUMM prompt(): bug 8046
  (thanks, Schwern)
  
• fix problems with "long" type on 64 big platforms: bug 14163
  (thanks, Kevin Rosenberg)
  
• improve compilation on Cygwin: bug 7088 (thanks, maxb)
  
• improve compilation on Win32: bug 14082 (thanks, Christopher Laco)
  
• fixed link to UUID draft: bug 12169 (thanks, kcivey)
  
• fixed UUID collision on SMP machines: bug 15042 (thanks, Chia-liang Kao)