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March 5th-25th News Perl 5.28.0 will be [1]postponed to May. Perl 5.27.10 is now [2]available! Perl 5.24.4-RC1 is now [3]available! Perl 5.26.2-RC1 is now [4]available! Grant Reports * Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 10 [5]report. * Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 11 [6]report. * Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 12 [7]report. * Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 [8]report 13. * Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 [9]report 14. * Tony Cook TPF Grant 2018 [10]February * Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report for weeks [11]#200-#201. * Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report for week [12]#202. Issues New Issues * [13]Perl #132950: Blead Breaks CPAN: [14]Dancer2. * [15]Perl #132954: Regarding Perl installation. * [16]Perl #132955: USE_CPLUSPLUS build broken in 5.27 blead and all 5.26 stables. * [17]Perl #132964: Missing newSVsv_nomg macro variant. * [18]Perl #132976: enhancement proposal for caller(). * [19]Perl #132992: [PATCH] for perl static build for gcc+win32 . * [20]Perl #132996: Re: Null pointer dereference in Perl_pp_multiconcat. * [21]Perl #132999: Compile fails with -DPERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13 on GCC7.3: static declaration of S_perl_siphash_seed_state follows non-static declaration. * [22]Perl #133009: stacksize in [23]Storable failure on Windows XP. * [24]Perl #133010: [BBC]: Commit 0740a29 breaks [25]Devel::NYTProf. * [26]Perl #133014: [BBC]: Commit 1381350 ([27]Time::HiRes synch with CPAN) breaks [28]Catalyst::Runtime and others. * [29]Perl #133021: Removed the word "discouraged" from [30]threads' documentation. Resolved Issues * [31]Perl #131135: make test.valgrind doesn't work on cpan, dist, ext. * [32]Perl #131190: erroneous regex warning after utf8 conversion. * [33]Perl #131628: Memory leak in S_pmtrans. * [34]Perl #131211: The glob() function is exponential on pathological patterns. * [35]Perl #131214: readdir_r is deprecated. * [36]Perl #131930: s[foo] \n [bar] confuses line numbers. * [37]Perl #132163: perl: sv.c: Assertion failure. * [38]Perl #132870: [39]Storable dclone() broken (latest VS 2017 32-bit). * [40]Perl #132902: Blead Breaks CPAN: [41]Class::Std. * [42]Perl #132926: [PATCH] 10s of KB to 100s of KB binary bloat with Visual C Perl related to Perl_SCX/charclass_invlists.h. Suggested Patches Bulk88 provided a patch in [43]Perl #132943 ([44]File::Glob bsd_glob.c: don't use "loop" as a goto label). Bulk88 also provided a patch in [45]Perl #132974: [PATCH] [46]ExtUtils::Constant fix "panic: failed to extend arg stack". Another patch from Bulk88 in [47]Perl #132982: [PATCH] remove all exported symbols from GCC win32 miniperl. And also from Bulk88, one in [48]Perl #133024: [PATCH] remove distros from needing ppport.h in core. A patch from Pali for [49]Devel::PPPort in [50]Perl #132984: [PATCH] [51]Devel::PPPort Use prefix D_PPP_ for helper macros. Another from Pali for [52]Encode in [53]Perl #132967: [PATCH] Encode: Remove XS functions _bytes_to_utf8() and _utf8_to_bytes(). Tony Cook provided a patch for [54]Perl #133009: (stacksize in [55]Storable failure on Windows XP). Discussions Should we remove support for Ultrix? Karl Williamson [56]asks. Karl is [57]working on updating the advice for using Address Sanitizer in [58]perlhacktips and is looking for recommended compilation flags. We [59]need help testing Perl on Darwin (OS X). If you want to help, let us know! References 1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250053 2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250042 3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250102 4. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250103 5. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/249966 6. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250019 7. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250118 8. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/249993 9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/249994 10. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/249995 11. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250029 12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250123 13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132950 14. http://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2 15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132954 16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132955 17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132964 18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132976 19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132992 20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132996 21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132999 22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133009 23. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable 24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133010 25. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf 26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133014 27. http://metacpan.org/pod/Time::HiRes 28. http://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Runtime 29. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133021 30. http://metacpan.org/pod/threads 31. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131135 32. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131190 33. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131628 34. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131211 35. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131214 36. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131930 37. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132163 38. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132870 39. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable 40. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132902 41. http://metacpan.org/pod/Class::Std 42. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132926 43. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132943 44. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Glob 45. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132974 46. http://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::Constant 47. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132982 48. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133024 49. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::PPPort 50. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132984 51. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::PPPort 52. http://metacpan.org/pod/Encode 53. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132967 54. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133009 55. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable 56. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/249983 57. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250022 58. http://metacpan.org/pod/perlhacktips 59. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/250037
