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March 28th - April 4th News and updates Dave Mitchell provides his [1]grant [2]reports, and his [3]monthly grant report as well. Tony provides his [4]grant [5]reports. Perl 5.24 blockers can be found [6]here and [7]here. Issues New issues * [8]Perl #127805: Let programs adjust buffer size of read filehandles. * [9]Perl #127829: Bleadperl breaks [10]Pod::Usage::Return. * [11]Perl #127810: Provide -Dfortify_inc Configure option to remove . from @INC. Resolved issues * [12]Perl #127790: Segfault involving [13]Data::Dumper, anonymous sub, and scalar ref. * [14]Perl #127231: Bleadperl breaks [15]App::JobLog. * [16]Perl #127727: Bleadperl breaks [17]RPerl. * [18]Perl #77990: fileno() fails to return descriptor of filehandle. * [19]Perl #8979: "Ambiguous use" isn't. * [20]Perl #28019: Non-compliant Syslog UDP packets. * [21]Perl #126206: SIGFPE integer divide by zero in S_make_trie. * [22]Perl #127760: [23]File::Path fails tests in non-threaded builds on smoke testing. * [24]Perl #126182: Regex causing memory leak. * [25]Perl #127799: Bleadperl breaks [26]Module::Build::Pluggable. Proposed patches Matthew Horsfall [27]raises that PERL_MEM_LOG doesn't seem to work anymore and provides a sample patch in [28]Perl #127819, which was merged. Aaron Crane provides a patch in [29]Perl #127821 to make it possible to import lround() from [30]POSIX. Shlomi Fish provides a patch in [31]Perl #127830 to correct some spelling errors in lib/unicore/mktables. Tony Cook provides a patch for [32]Perl #126162 (stat() behaves differently when passed an array in argument list). Dave Mitchell provides a patch for [33]Perl #127746 (charset.t fails on Solaris). Discussion Karl Williamson is covering the recent failures on [34]AIX and [35]HP-UX. We received a nice thank-you [36]email from Nicolas Graf. Fun to read! Todd Rinaldo suggested a patch in [37]Perl #127810 to be able to compile Perl so it does not also load the current directory into @INC. There is a conversation ongoing on the ticket. References 1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235496 2. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235601 3. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235534 4. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235587 5. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235589 6. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235501 7. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235537 8. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127805 9. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127829 10. https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Usage::Return 11. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810 12. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127790 13. https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper 14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127231 15. https://metacpan.org/pod/App::JobLog 16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127727 17. https://metacpan.org/pod/RPerl 18. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77990 19. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8979 20. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28019 21. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126206 22. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127760 23. https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Path 24. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126182 25. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127799 26. https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Build::Pluggable 27. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235541 28. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127819 29. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127821 30. https://metacpan.org/pod/POSIX 31. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127830 32. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126162 33. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127746 34. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235521 35. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235523 36. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235565 37. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810