I've backported a couple changes in bleadperl that were against 0.30 and never made it into the M::B trunk: making $^X absolute during testing and skipping a couple tests on VMS.
As far as I can tell, I think this is now ready to be released to CPAN as 0.3101 and then I'll prepare the patch file for p5p to merge it back into bleadperl. Eric -- since Ken is now probably in labor -- could you please tag it and release it to CPAN? (Unless anyone has any screaming objections.) -- David