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Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Let's get to this week's topics.

• Perl 5.17.5 is now available
• Timely destruction guarantees
• COW status
• perl5db refactoring
• hash assignment fixes and speedup are ready for review
• Pull request CPAN-1.99_51
• sub signatures status and performance
• No-taint support in Perl

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Sorry this week's summary was delayed, I just ran out of tuits this past weekend. Let's get right to the topics this week:

• Perl 5.14.3 is now available
• maint-5.12, maint-5.14, and CVE-2012-5195
• perl 5.16.2 cometh
• Stupid COW benchmarks
• aasign'ing hash with odd number of elements and duplicates
• Compile option to disable taint mode: speedup
• Making PerlIOStdio_invalidate_fileno() less invasive on FreeBSD

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Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic on the perl5-porters email list. I was in San Francisco this past week at RICON 2012, a conference about distributed systems for developers. It was organized by Basho who wrote and support the "NoSQL" Riak data store. I was there mostly in my capacity as an Erlang developer, but kept a finely tuned ear out for Perl. Unfortunately, there wasn't any discussion of Perl (or Python for that matter.) Most of the developers there work on Rails, Scala/Clojure, Erlang or node.js and it was a little disappointing to my inner Perl nerd that there wasn't much consideration of implementations outside of these 5 programming languages.

Topics this week:

• TPF Grants (DAVEM / NWCLARK)
• Security Issues in perl-5.16.x
• Rounding a floating point number
• Taking CPANPLUS out of core
• a2p/s2p

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Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic on the perl5-porters email list. In case you missed hearing about it, don't forget to sign up for Gabor Szabo's Perl Maven programming contest.

This week's dusty thread is from the week of July 30, 2012. Pumpking Ricardo Signes was looking for volunteer(s) to do some hacking on a gitalist installation hosted on perl5.git.perl.org. Read about the details here. Are you interested? Contact Rik.

Topics this week include:

• Perl 5.14.3 RC1
• JROBINSON grant report #10, #11
• [PATCH] Suggest cause of error requiring .pm file
• Auto-chomp
• Refactoring t/op/lex_assign.t to use test.pl
• Why is Filter::Simple in core distribution?
• Features and keywords versus namespaces and functions
• Taking CPANPLUS out of core

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Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic on the perl5-porters email list. Normally, I'd have a dusty thread and some "witty" banter here, but I'm just running too far behind for that this week.

Topics this week include:

• Perl 5.17.4 is now available
• Parrot 4.8.0 "Spix's Macaw" Released!
• WANTED: "whole program" benchmarks
• Changing the Perl error message when a module is not found
• Subroutine signatures on the blog
• Why ugly Perl is a guide for optimizing Perl