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                           February 27th - March 5th

News and updates

   Perl 5.25.11 will be released on March to allow more another development
   release testing for @INC changes.

Issues

  New issues

     * [1]Perl #130893: Reuse code from defined macro.
     * [2]Perl #130903: caller_cx(0,NULL) returns NULL.
     * [3]Perl #130907: unicode_strings feature doesn't work with split ' '.
     * [4]Perl #130921: Bleadperl v5.25.5-100-g2b5e7bc2e6 breaks
       JDDPAUSE/re-engine-GNU-0.021.tar.gz.

  Resolved issues

     * [5]Perl #130853: system() does not return -1 in low-memory
situations.

  Suggested patches

   Jim Keenen provided a patch in [6]Perl #130885 on how to use
   [7]Devel::PatchPerl to repair older builds with an example from bisecting
   [8]Perl #72414 (UTF-16 filters do not handle all surrogates gracefully).

   Josef Kutej provided a patch in [9]Perl #130902 to update the perlfunc
   synopsis about alarm.

   Pali provided a patch in [10]Perl #130801 (SvNV() does not store computed
   value to NV slot) to clarify the expected behavior.

References

   1. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130893
   2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130903
   3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130907
   4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130921
   5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130853
   6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130885
   7. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::PatchPerl
   8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72414
   9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130902
  10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130801

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