Hey everyone,

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

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April 3rd-30th

News

Perl 5.24.4 is now available!

Perl 5.26.2 is now available!

Perl 5.26.2 binary kits for OpenVMS are now available!

Perl 5.27.11 is now available!

Grant Reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 March 2018 report.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report for week 203.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report for weeks 204-206.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report for week 207.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 17.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 18.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 19.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 20.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant Report for March 2018.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #133064: Multiple assignments in assignment ops.
• Perl #133073: 5.26.1: some coverity findings in pp.c and toke.c.
• Perl #133074: uninitialized variable and integer overrun in pp.c and toke.c.
• Perl #133093: I18N::LangTags::List name fails for az-*.
• Perl #133098: [PATCH] fix -DNO_MATHOMS build, mathomed syms were not removed from perldll.def.
• Perl #133102: Error Message In File::Copy.
• Perl #133113: [PATCH] fix SEGV in XS::APItest::Backrefs::Comctl32Version().
• Perl #133117: [PATCH] fix version autodetect for Visual C 64bit edition.
• Perl #133120: pod: fix some typos.
• Perl #133121: [PATCH] fix crash in gv_fetchmeth_sv.
• Perl #133125: more -DNO_MATHOMS breakage on Win32.
• Perl #133126: [PATCH] fix version autodetect for Visual C 64bit edition.
• Perl #133127: [PATCH] fix SEGV in XS::APItest::Backrefs::Comctl32Version().
• Perl #133128: yyparse do not preserve ReadOnly flag for negative numbers pass as reference.
• Perl #133130: no autodie removes system function.
• Perl #133131: Blead Breaks CPAN: Devel::Cover.
• Perl #133132: fix missing parentheses in if statement.
• Perl #133134: map{ /.../; { %+ } } @data wrongly flattens hashes into arrays.
• Perl #133135: Blead Breaks CPAN: ZEFRAM/Lexical-SealRequireHints-0.011.tar.gz.
• Perl #133136: Bisect.pl broken for 3 commits in blead.
• Perl #133137: S_sprintf_is_multiconcatable(): Assertion failure.
• Perl #133141: cwd_enoent.t fails on DragonFly BSD.
• Perl #133142: Bleadperl breaks Devel::FindRef.
• Perl #133150: sprintf2.t tests fail on Linux/ia64.
• Perl #133152: Cygwin build failure with v5.27.11-16-g71e845c342.
• Perl #133153: [PATCH] Time::HiRes: Fix generating Makefile when it does not exist.
• Perl #133154: [PATCH] implement USE_CPLUSPLUS build option in win32/GNUmakefile.
• Perl #133155: perl5: false warning on "Multidimensional syntax not supported".
• Perl #133157: Solaris Failing Some Locale Tests.
• Perl #133160: Bug #133133 for perl5: [META]: Tickets deferred until 5.29.0.
• Perl #133161: Anythingatall->import gives no error.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #125619: Documentation of byte I/O.
• Perl #131594: Bleadperl v5.27.0-141-g5d09ee1cb7 breaks DAVIDO/JSON-Tiny-0.56.tar.gz.
• Perl #131760: "Wide character" errors are undocumented.
• Perl #131844: [CVE-2018-6913] heap-buffer-overflow in S_pack_rec.
• Perl #131953: Bleadperl v5.27.2-30-gdf6b4bd565 breaks SYBER/Panda-Lib-1.3.2.tar.gz.
• Perl #132167: Error parsing regex set in perl 5.26.0.
• Perl #132094: Bleadperl v5.27.3-31-gf14cf36320 DEBUGGING breaks ETJ/Event-1.26.tar.gz.
• Perl #132227: [CVE-2018-6797] heap-buffer-overflow in S_regatom.
• Perl #132483: BBC: recent commit breaks App::perlbrew.
• Perl #132594: BBC smartmatch da4e040f42421764ef069371d77c008e6b801f45.
• Perl #132727: BBC Class::MethodMaker broken by 6661956a23de82b41adc406200054293d6d7aded.
• Perl #132744: bogus syntax errors with use subs.
• Perl #132769: Blead Breaks CPAN: LEONT/App-a2p-1.009.tar.gz.
• Perl #132775: [BBC]: Commit 60fa466 breaks SMUELLER/Math-Clipper-1.23.tar.gz.
• Perl #132788: Blead Breaks CPAN: LEMBARK/Object-Trampoline-1.42.tar.gz.
• Perl #132955: USE_CPLUSPLUS build broken in 5.27 blead and all 5.26 stables.
• Perl #132992: [PATCH] for perl static build for gcc + win32 .
• Perl #133037: new warning in inline.h: S_variant_under_utf8_count.
• Perl #133039: ALL_STATIC build is broken on MSVC.
• Perl #133070: [PATCH] fix parallel ALL_STATIC Win32 build.
• Perl #133071: [PATCH] pod: Spelling fixes.
• Perl #133073: 5.26.1: some coverity findings in pp.c and toke.c.
• Perl #133084: [PATCH] fix win32 with Ming.org GCC 3.4.5 build.
• Perl #133088: [PATCH] fix utf8.c overflowed VC6's preproc macro buffer and syntax errored.
• Perl #133098: [PATCH] fix -DNO_MATHOMS build, mathomed syms were not removed from perldll.def.
• Perl #133100: SEGV using a regex with an invalid repeat range.
• Perl #133113: [PATCH] fix SEGV in XS::APItest::Backrefs::Comctl32Version().
• Perl #133120: pod: fix some typos.
• Perl #133121: [PATCH] fix crash in gv_fetchmeth_sv.
• Perl #133125: more -DNO_MATHOMS breakage on Win32.
• Perl #133131: Blead Breaks CPAN: Devel::Cover.
• Perl #133138: Blead Breaks CPAN: TOBYINK/Alt-Module-Runtime-ButEUMM-0.001.tar.gz.