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December 26th, 2016 - January 1st, 2017
Happy new year!
News and updates
An [1]update on Perl 5.24.1 and 5.22.3 from Sawyer X.
Grant reports
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 [2]report #154, #155.
Issues
New issues
* [3]Perl #130410: [4]B::Debug remove from core distribution
post-perl-5.26.
* [5]Perl #130423: DBL_MAX (and the like) not parsed.
* [6]Perl #130445: perl5db.t fails and crashes when trying to install
Perl 5.25.9.
* [7]Perl #130447: Win32: Define __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO for all gcc
builds.
* [8]Perl #130467: Default perl builds to not include . in @INC
(default_inc_excludes_dot).
Resolved issues
* [9]Perl #114466: [PATCH] Clarify purpose of installhtml.
* [10]Perl #121727: Bleadperl breaks MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-7.07.tar.gz on
Windows.
* [11]Perl #127810: Provide -Dfortify_inc Configure option to remove .
from @INC.
* [12]Perl #127981: [PATCH] Deep recursion warning with
%Module::CoreList::version.
* [13]Perl #128139: Bleadperl v5.25.0-18-g1656665 breaks
STBEY/Carp-Clan-6.04.tar.gz.
* [14]Perl #128967: Inconsistency between doc and code for chown using
negative argument: -1.
* [15]Perl #129348: [16]File::Find issue with link counts on Bash on
Ubuntu on Windows.
* [17]Perl #129354: Default configuration on x86_64-linux-gnu cannot
build binary extension modules.
* [18]Perl #130068: setproctitle() support for DragonFly.
* [19]Perl #130188: Crash on return from substitution in subroutine.
* [20]Perl #130199: [21]Text::CSV::Encoded is incorrectly forced to
parse widechar.
* [22]Perl #130242: Undocumented change of UTF-8 delimiters to
substitution.
* [23]Perl #130324: Inconsistent behaviour of continue inside given
inside while.
* [24]Perl #130385: Bleadperl v5.25.7-12-ge03e82a breaks
TDRUGEON/List-Pairwise-1.03.tar.gz.
* [25]Perl #130445: perl5db.t fails and crashes when trying to install
Perl 5.25.9.
Rejected issue
* [26]Perl #130046: Bleadperl v5.25.6-90-g3619505 breaks
SMUELLER/XS-TCC-0.04.tar.gz.
Suggested patches
Discussion
Dave Mitchell [27]shared his thoughts on (and initial implementation of)
processing 8 bytes at a time in the regex engine. This would improve the
speed of regular expression operations.
A discussion [28]started regarding stack ref counting, which is a
recurring issue.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241994
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241897
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130410
4. http://metacpan.org/pod/B::Debug
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130423
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130445
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130447
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130467
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114466
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121727
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127981
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128139
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128967
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129348
16. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Find
17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129354
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130068
19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130188
20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130199
21. http://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV::Encoded
22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130242
23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130324
24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130385
25. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130445
26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130046
27. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241891
28. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241836
