- New global variable g:Perl_InsertFileHeader (suppress file description comment for new files).
- Two new ex commands: PerlScriptArguments, PerlSwitches
- Specifying command line arguments and Perl command line switches improved.
- Bugfix: g:Perl_LoadMenus now works.
- Bugfix: g:Perl_MapLeader now works.
- Bugfix: syntax check under 64-Bit MS-Windows now works.
- Some settings moved to the filetype plugin.
- Removed superfluous settings from the filetype plugin.
- Integration of Make moved into the toolbox.
- Minor improvements.
+ New command and menu entry for commenting/uncommenting larger blocks of code.
+ Some POD statements now have a visual mode.
+ Setting the column for the start of line-end comments improved.
+ Mac OS X : circumvent a Vim bug which caused a crash when loading plugin version 3.1.
+ File syntax/perl.vim removed (but see help in perlsupport.txt).