Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

Edit: Perl #132548 (Possible memory leak in S_regclass) was not rejected. It was fixed.

December 6th-10th

News and Updates

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason created a proposed (RFC: Adding a perldisthist POD page) POD file for the various versions of Perl included in each distribution version.

Dave Rolsky shares ("Vulnerability" in Perl in the news) that Perl appears in the news because of a module that evals input.

Grant Reports

• Zefram TPF Grant 2017 week 49.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report 188.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 1.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132537: possible documentation error in perldata.
• Perl #132548: Possible memory leak in S_regclass.
• Perl #132553: Assertion failure in Perl__core_swash_init.
• Perl #132554: Assertion failure in S_maybe_multiconcat.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #2754: can't exit 0 from CHECK {}.
• Perl #3054: overload recursion not trapped.

• Perl #74142: provide a better c wrapper example in perlsec.

• Perl #124349: Sys::Hostname::hostname warn on spurious arguments.

• Perl #129130: heap-buffer-overflow Perl_pp_chdir.
• Perl #129347: null pointer deref S_ft_return_false.
• Perl #129366: Assertion failure in Perl_op_free.
• Perl #131893: runtime error: signed integer overflow: 1 + 9223372036854775807 cannot be represented in type long.
• Perl #131987: Heap Use After Free Perl_yylex.
• Perl #132506: build failure on NetBSD (likely due to new in-place edit code).
• Perl #132548: Possible memory leak in S_regclass.
• Perl #132554: Assertion failure in S_maybe_multiconcat.

Rejected Issues

• Perl #130145: Storable.dll causes ODBC Table name truncation in DBI.

Suggested Patches

A patch was provided by Chris to expand perldata regarding list assignments in Perl #132538.