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September 25th - October 1st News and Updates I'm [1]looking for a release manager for the last releases of 5.27.x in March of 2018. Issues New Issues * [2]Perl #132163: sv.c: Assertion failure. * [3]Perl #132164: unsigned integer overflow in S_study_chunk. * [4]Perl #132167: Error parsing regex set in perl 5.26.0. * [5]Perl #132177: 5.26.1 sanitize=undefined. * [6]Perl #132178: Perl 5.24.0: AIX compile error. Resolved Issues * [7]Perl #120174: Debugger command regression: Now requires more spaces. * [8]Perl #121440: spurious lstat calls in Perl_do_readline / glob. * [9]Perl #131532: swap needs to be removed from perlreapi. Suggested Patches Patches by Nicholas R. (Atoomic): * [10]Perl #132159 (Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls in sv.c and toke.c). * [11]Perl #132160 (Use SvLEN_set/SvCUR_set in a few extra locations). * [12]Perl #132171: Minor speedup improvement for pp_require. Bo Lindbergh provided a patch for [13]Perl #105918: Tied hashes stringify their hash keys as of 5.8.3. Discussions Yves Orton [14]raised an interesting problem with \G appearing not at the beginning of a string. References 1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246514 2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132163 3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132164 4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132167 5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132177 6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132178 7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120174 8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121440 9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131532 10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132159 11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132160 12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132171 13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105918 14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246497
