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December 21st-27th
News and updates
Perl 5.23.6 is now available, thanks to David Golden! You can read his
awesome announcement [1]here. Here's the sneak peak of it:
A long, long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
I don't want to ruin the rest, go check out it!
Interested in helping out in Perl? Why not make a release? Ricardo Signes
is [2]looking for more release managers.
Karl Williamson officially deprecated to_utf8_case.
Chad Granum submitted a patch in [3]Perl #127000 to update to latest
[4]Test-Simple release.
Bugs
Reported bugs
* [5]Perl #126981: Possible regression using constant for hash key in
perl 5.22+.
* [6]Perl #126991: Integer overflow in line number tracking reported by
caller().
* [7]Perl #127026: [8]B::Deparse fails to correctly deparse hash-derefs
with conditional logic within.
* [9]Perl #127028: perlfunc -f given gives POD syntax error.
Resolved bugs
* [10]Perl #126261: Unknown regexp modifier/unmatched [ raises
assertion.
* [11]Perl #126960: [12]Math::BigFloat giving NaN on multiplying 1 *
1e-05.
Proposed patches
Bulk88 updated his patches in [13]Perl #126632. As always, he detailed
additional interesting information about the given problem and how to
solve it.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker had accidentally a patch for [14]Perl #126981
(described above) way too quickly to be considered done by a human.
Still,
it's already being smoked by James E. Keenan.
Discussion
In a [15]discussion on adding features to [16]Exporter, Ricardo Signes
[17]summarized the different considerations and his position on them. It
seems like [18]Exporter might get the ability to import subroutines under
a different name.
The conversation on UTF-8 in identifiers [19]continues.
Yves Orton raises an issue (discovered by fuzzing [20]Sereal) in which
Perl might segfault if given broken utf8 (marked as utf8) to
globnames and
package names. He [21]asks if people think it warrants a ticket or just a
doc patch. Bulk88 [22]adds his two cents on how paranoid one can get. A
fun read.
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233475
2. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233505
3. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127000
4. https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Simple
5. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126981
6. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126991
7. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127026
8. https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Deparse
9. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127028
10. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126261
11. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126960
12. https://metacpan.org/pod/Math::BigFloat
13. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126632
14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126981
15. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233391
16. https://metacpan.org/pod/Exporter
17. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233477
18. https://metacpan.org/pod/Exporter
19. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233497
20. https://metacpan.org/pod/Sereal
21. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233486
22. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233490
