Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

April 17th-26th

News

Perl 5.25.12 is now available!

Issues

New issues

• Perl #131176: Obsolete ?PATTERN? still documented.
• Perl #131177: MSWin32 (Win10) / qx{} bug for compound statements (eg, echo 1 & echo 2).
• Perl #131190: Erroneous regex warning after utf8 conversion.
• Perl #131192: panic: attempt to copy freed scalar via @ARGV on stack, Getopt::Long + Carp::longmess.
• Perl #131195: UTF-8 scripts with BOM not auto-detected.
• Perl #131211: The glob() function is exponential on pathological patterns.
• Perl #131212: Access to individual warnings.
• Perl #131214: readdir_r is deprecated.

Resolved issues

• Perl #131098: Error message for require "./base.pm" is wrong and confusing.
• Perl #131176: Obsolete ?PATTERN? still documented.