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July 24th-30th News and Updates We are now tracking all blockers for 5.30 in [1]Perl #131806. Issues New Issues * [2]Perl #131786: Linker error with pp.o if -mieee-fp is in CFLAGS: "multiple definition of _LIB_VERSION". * [3]Perl #131663: Bleadperl v5.27.0-132-g13f4dd346e breaks JDDPAUSE/MarpaX-Languages-M4-0.017.tar.gz. * [4]Perl #131809: Configure script doesn't recognize GCC 6 or 7. * [5]Perl #131810: Bleadperl v5.27.1-12-gfce4ebb4e9 breaks NEZUMI/Unicode-BiDiRule-0.03.tar.gz. * [6]Perl #131811: panic: previous op failed to extend arg stack. Resolved Issues * [7]Perl #131726: [Win32] perl.h remaps strtoll and strtoull incorrectly. * [8]Perl #78288: ref and other ops are inefficient in boolean context. Suggested Patches Father Chrysostomos [9]provided (Re: destabilizing mergesort) a patch to allow unstable sorting. Tony Cook provided a patch for [10]Perl #131777: signatures accept fancy assignment operators. Tony also provided a patch for [11]Perl #131793: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags. Sullivan Beck [12]provided a patch to update [13]Locale::Codes from 3.52 to 3.53. Discussion Jim Keenen [14]asks whether the POSIX 2008 functions could be implemented in core, and whether they should. References 1. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131806 2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131786 3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131663 4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131809 5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131810 6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131811 7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131726 8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78288 9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245632 10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131777 11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131793 12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245696 13. http://metacpan.org/pod/Locale::Codes 14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245712