Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/07/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-july-23rd-26th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/757912859204587520
July 23rd-26th
This report only covers a few days.
News and updates
5.22.3-RC2 is now [1]available (Perl 5.22.3-RC2 is now available!)!
5.24.1-RC2 is now [2]available (Perl 5.24.1-RC2 is now available!)!
These releases carry a security fix for CVE-2016-1238, comments by Sawyer
X [3]here (CVE-2016-1238: Important unsafe module load path flaw). The
original ticket has since been closed for a short period.
Leon Timmermans [4]adds (Dual-life github organization) that there is now
a Github organization for Dual-life modules.
Issues
New issues
* [5]Perl #128701: Unicode handling of warnings appears broken in
5.18.2
and 5.24.0.
* [6]Perl #128708: recommended 'my sub' example in perlsub leaks
memory.
* [7]Perl #128709: Variable "$x" is not available triggered by lexical
subs.
* [8]Perl #128719: With signatures and my vars: state variable $y masks
earlier declaration.
* [9]Perl #128734: tr/// with named Unicode chars broken since 5.23.3.
* [10]Perl #128738: \x{ffffffff} as string delim preserves \\.
Discussion
Todd Rinaldo [11]renews ([perl #127810] Provide -Dfortify_inc Configure
option to remove .from @INC) the suggestion of removing . (current
directory) from @INC.
On the 22nd (not included in previous release), Dave Mitchell [12]shares
(merging optimising sub signature work so far) he is working on
optimizing
subroutine signatures in a branch. Father Chrysostomos already provided a
lot of responses on that in that thread and in a previous [13]thread (Re:
Concerning the smoke-me/davem/sub_argsB2 branch).
Yaroslav Kuzmin [14]asks about ASCII support in z/OS in Perl
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238270
2. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238269
3. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238271
4. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238322
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128701
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128708
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128709
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128719
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128734
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128738
11. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238281
12. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238238
13. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238257
14. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/238324