Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/06/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-may-23rd---june-5th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/871686220669177856
May 23rd - June 5th
News
[1]Perl 5.26.0 is now available!
We also released [2]Perl 5.27.0.
blead is [3]open again.
[4]threads upgraded to 2.16.
[5]threads::shared upgraded to 1.56.
Locale-Codes upgraded to 3.52.
Grant Reports
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2: [6]report #176.
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2: [7]report #177.
Issues
New Issues
* [8]Perl #131345: perlio.c: PerlIOStdio_invalidate_fileno: g++ build
failure on FreeBSD-10.3.
* [9]Perl #131371: perldoc -f s doesn't find s///.
* [10]Perl #131388: g++ vs subnormals in 5.26.0.
* [11]Perl #131415: Perl 5.24+ Configure loses hints script changes.
* [12]Perl #131484: Build Failure using VS2015.
* [13]Perl #131485: Arbitrary linking of libcl in Configure on FreeBSD.
* [14]Perl #131487: VS, Makefile, makefile.mk.
* [15]Perl #131489: Test failures only on an AMD A10 Kaveri.
* [16]Perl #131506: sprintf: %f rounding different in 5.24.0 and
5.26.0.
Resolved Issues
* [17]Perl #23813: [PATCH] misleading example in perldoc -f flock.
* [18]Perl #105930: eval 'UNITCHECK{die}' crashes inside FETCH.
* [19]Perl #127742: Hash keys are limited to 2 GB.
* [20]Perl #130814: heap uaf in Perl_yylex().
* [21]Perl #130885: [PATCH] How to use [22]Devel::PatchPerl to repair
older builds.
* [23]Perl #130893: Reuse code from defined macro.
* [24]Perl #131085: segfault with symbol table and coderef.
* [25]Perl #131142: [26]if pragma POD addition for modules with an
empty
import list.
* [27]Perl #131208: [PATCH] Upgrade Core with version-0.9918.
* [28]Perl #131314: "unused parameter" warning when building with g++.
* [29]Perl #131328: delete does not work on % slices.
* [30]Perl #131371: perldoc -f s doesn't find s///.
Discussion
The conversation on adding new string macros and normalizing existing
ones
[31]continues.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244573
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244580
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244653
4. http://metacpan.org/pod/threads
5. http://metacpan.org/pod/threads::shared
6. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244482
7. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244558
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131345
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131371
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131388
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131415
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131484
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131485
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131487
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131489
16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131506
17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23813
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105930
19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127742
20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130814
21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130885
22. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::PatchPerl
23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130893
24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131085
25. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131142
26. http://metacpan.org/pod/if
27. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131208
28. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131314
29. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131328
30. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131371
31. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244581
