Perl 5 Porters Summaries

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

• [PATCH] use dots - allow '.' instead of '->' everywhere and concat with '~'
• NWCLARK TPF grant April report
• I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues
• perl needs safer implicit close
• An observation: Short- vs. long-term benefits
• [PATCH] Add an API to attach a signature string to a CV
• Perl experiments

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

• DAVEM TPF Grant May 2013 report
• dtrace sub-entry probe against lexical sub segfaults
• COW and THINKFIRST and related safety

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. I'll be at YAPC all week, so be sure to say "Hi!" if you see me or come to my talk.

Topics this week include:

• CGI.pm and Module::Build to leave core
• CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm
• Building foundations...
• Storable refactoring

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

• perl v5.19.0 is now available
• blead is now thawed
• RFC: Deprecating Module::Build
• Perl 5 Porters BOF at YAPC
• Committers: PLEASE run test_porting before pushing
• RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution
• I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

The topic of the week on P5P was the clean up and release of perl 5.18.0 which was released on 5-18 for North Americans. RJBS in a seperate email said blead would be reopen for patches on Tuesday, as 5.19.0 is scheduled to be released on Monday (May 20).

Read the release announcement

Read perldelta

Download a tarball

Congratulations to the perl5 team for this new release!