This week it was just Paul and Philippe; we discussed the final changes for the upcoming RC2 and stable release, and marked some issues/PR as release blockers.

Graham expects to release 5.40-RC2 before the week-end.

In anticipation for the stable release, we:

• revived the “HTTPS out-of-the-box” project: the CPAN Security Group committed to help us select a workable solution, with a goal of implementing it in time for Perl 5.42
• discussed the minutiae of the next stable release
• decided to do it on 2024-05-24 (Friday)

Just Graham and Paul

• Reviewed the release-blockers label. Only two left, one is a documentation fix (PR22055)
• Reviewed another documentation PR that should go in for 5.40 (PR22200)

Aside from that, things are looking good for making a 5.40 release at the usual schedule in May.

We were back from the PTS in Lisbon, and had a shorter meeting than usual, during which we mostly discussed the last remaining release blockers for 5.40.