A few small matters turned up this week.

There are a few issues sitting around that we’d like to roll into a 5.44.1 release, being various bugfixes that have accumulated. We’d like to get a more streamlined process for making these releases. We hope to have a more concrete proposal soon.

The recent PR (#25042) to fix the SV flags associated with PL_sv_zero looks like a good idea that we should accept anyway, even though it doesn’t actually fix the JSON serialisation problem with JSON::XS. That module may be beyond our ability to influence.

We think that renaming util.h to something less likely to collide with OS headers (such as perl_util.h) is a good idea as a first step. This may likely lead to a wider task of moving all of our internal headers into their own subdirectory, to neaten up the structure and avoid the problem recurring in future, but this first step will at least help reveal any potential problems with doing that.

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All three of us discussed the recent issue GH24977 about how the behaviour of interpolation in regexp quotes changes under use strict in latest blead perl. We feel this is a change that needs more thinking and adjustment before it reaches a stable perl release.

Aside from that, the mailing list and github issues tracker have both been rather quiet of late, so there aren’t any other major issues that require our attention.

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