• (ms) Denis Ibaev added support for DBI appender attributes.
  
• (ms) Chris Weyl put in a workaround for a DBD::CSV bug that
  tripped our test suite.
  
• (ms) Tim Bunce provided a patch using Carp::confess() instead of die()
  on the "Root Logger not initialized" message which pops up
  during global construction to make it easier to find the
  offending code.
  
• (ms) Cygwin masks MSWin32-ishness by setting $^O to "cygwin" and not
  to "Win32". Modified check to catch both.
  
• (ms) Fixed unescaped brace in regex that perl 5.17.4 was complaining
  about.