Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

December 19th-25th

Perl 5.25.8 is now available!

News and updates

There are some pending changes in XS for core UTF-8 handling, announced by Karl Williamson. In short, there are new, safer UTF-8 macros and the existing macros are deprecated.

Jim Keenan is asking for help reviewing a set of patches to Storable.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #130385: Bleadperl v5.25.7-12-ge03e82a breaks TDRUGEON/List-Pairwise-1.03.tar.gz.
• Perl #130393: h2xs: Support for _Bool/stdbool.h?.
• Perl #130397: Unnecessary whitespace skipping in Perl__swash_to_invlist.
• Perl #130398: Bleadperl v5.25.7-97-g98d5e3e breaks BAREFOOT/Method-Signatures-20160315.tar.gz.

Resolved issues

• Perl #126310: no "Malformed UTF-8 character" warning on single-quoted strings under "use utf8".
• Perl #128966: Bleadperl v5.25.3-232-g10f9b9b breaks LEONT/Const-Fast-0.014.tar.gz.
• Perl #129821: Bleadperl v5.25.5-65-g5012eeb breaks JJORE/Devel-OptreeDiff-2.3.tar.gz.
• Perl #129851: Bleadperl v5.25.5-43-g607ee43 breaks CDOLAN/Devel-EnforceEncapsulation-0.51.tar.gz.
• Perl #130163: lib/locale.t fails on FreeBSD 10.
• Perl #130324: Inconsistent behaviour of continue inside given inside while.
• Perl #130335: sort{$a<=>$b} fails to sort occasionally.
• Perl #130385: Bleadperl v5.25.7-12-ge03e82a breaks TDRUGEON/List-Pairwise-1.03.tar.gz.
• Perl #130397: Unnecessary whitespace skipping in Perl__swash_to_invlist.
• Perl #130398: Bleadperl v5.25.7-97-g98d5e3e breaks BAREFOOT/Method-Signatures-20160315.tar.gz.

Suggested patches

James Keenan provided a patch for Perl #130324 (Inconsistent behaviour of continue inside given inside while).