[edit: This was 5.22.3 released. Thank you for spotting the error, Kent Fredric!]

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

October 11th-17th

News and highlights

Perl 5.24.1 RC4 is out!

Perl 5.22.3 RC4 is out!

Issues

New issues

• Perl #129851: Bleadperl v5.25.5-43-g607ee43 breaks CDOLAN/Devel-EnforceEncapsulation-0.51.tar.gz.
• Perl #129866: hv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129868: Assertion failure: void S_mro_gather_and_rename.
• Perl #129869: Perl_sv_setsv_flags: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129880: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129888: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5.
• Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b.
• Perl #129892: sub calls show as gv(IV \).
• Perl #129893: gv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129897: Unexpected behavior with a regular expression.
• Perl #129898: op.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129903: regexec.c stack overflow.

Resolved issues

• Perl #128996: heap-use-after-free Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr (utf8.c:918).
• Perl #129789: Time::HiRes broken in blead on darwin.
• Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b.

Suggested patches

Thomas Sibley provided some patchs for Module::CoreList, one of which is Perl #129858 , which exposes information about utilities that come with core, and the versiono in which they were introduced.

Andrew Fresh provided a patch in Perl #129895 to fix a test in OpenBSD.

Discussion

Proving it is never too late to help, Dmitry Karasik provided an answer to a question Jakko Hietaniemi asked a year ago, on results of testing the perl source with the viva64 source code analysis tool.

Following the conversation about the definition of a hash key, Todd Rinaldo raises a few interesting questions and provides a suggested patch for simplifying the structure.

Dave Nicol provided an invested response to Dave Mitchell's question on the topic of (\@a) = \($x,$y) in non-void context.

Dave Mitchell on the same topic provided another observation regarding list assignment in list context.

Christian Walde asked about the current maintainership status of Cwd and File::Spec.

Jarkko Hietaniemi provided an update about the status of perl on NetBSD/VAX. It's now passing about 98% of the tests.