Perl Steering Council

All three of us attended this long meeting covering quite a bit ground:

• CVE-2026-3381 obliges us to cut a 5.42.2 point release with an updated Compress::Raw::Zlib.

• We accepted Phillipe’s and Eric’s offer to handle the last dev releases of the cycle.

• Olaf Alders requested more explicit EOL notices and has updated perlpolicy.pod and the release manager guide accordingly. We agreed that the release announcement mails for the final dev release and the stable release should also contain a brief note about the perl version which is falling out of support, and filed an issue to make this happen.

• We sent mail to kick off the voting process for some new core team member candidates.

• We discussed the state of Devel::PPPort. It has been outdated for some time and needs to be unstuck.

• We would like to get customize.dat down to the only entry that cannot be removed (for version.pm). We will try to coordinate with maintainers.

• We noticed that we missed the deprecation of multiple use VERSION declarations in the same scope, which was supposed to be fatalized in 5.44. It is too late now to do that in this dev cycle, so the warning will have to change to 5.46 and the deprecation revisited next cycle.

• Further on the topic of overlooked deprecations, we considered how to prevent this from continuing to happen. We decided that some kind of documentation of recurring PSC obligations during a cycle is needed, which would also include things like the contentious changes freeze and release blocker triage.

• There was not much time left for release blocker triage, so we only did a little, which surfaced no candidate blockers so far. (A few already-definite blockers have been spotted and marked outside of triage.)

[P5P posting of this summary]