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April 4th-10th
News
Leon Timmermans [1]notes we need to revert a fatality of unescaped left
braces in regex, specifically [2]Perl #130497 since it breaks
Autoconf and
there's no release of it out yet.
Issues
New issues
* [3]Perl #131098: Error message for require "./base.pm" is wrong and
confusing.
* [4]Perl #131101: segfault in S_mg_findext_flags().
* [5]Perl #131110: CORE/util.h breaks if multiply included (patch).
* [6]Perl #131115: Perl enters infinite loop with -d:Trace and
binmode(STDERR, encoding(UTF-8)).
* [7]Perl #131124: commit 2e6f1ae9c: breaks blead.
* [8]Perl #131126: 5.24.1 make test failures on linux-x86_64 (Linux:
4.10 glibc: 2.25 gcc: 5,4.0).
Resolved issues
* [9]Perl #121292: perlunicode claims about a UTF-8 BOM in perl source
are incorrect.
* [10]Perl #130641: Bleadperl v5.25.8-36-g6cdc5cd8f3 breaks
HURRICUP/DTL-Fast-1.622.tar.gz.
Rejected issues
* [11]Perl #130497: Revert "Unescaped left brace in regex" fatality.
* [12]Perl #131100: The ../ relative path misbehaving with regard to
default_inc_excludes_dot.
Discussion
Dave Mitchell [13]asks about weird behavior with do/require with refs in
@INC.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/243897
2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130497
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131098
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131101
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131110
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131115
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131124
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131126
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121292
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130641
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130497
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131100
13. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/243977
