I'd like to thank Ruslan (ruz) for adding a 'patched' status value on rt.cpan.org.
I asked for the 'patched' status for tickets that I've fixed in the code repository, but have not yet released to CPAN. Tickets with 'patched' will appear on the active bugs list (e.g. from search.cpan.org) so that users can see the status and not make a duplicate report. -- David