Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

May 23rd - June 5th

News

Perl 5.26.0 is now available!

We also released Perl 5.27.0.

blead is open again.

threads upgraded to 2.16.

threads::shared upgraded to 1.56.

Locale-Codes upgraded to 3.52.

Grant Reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2: report #176.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2: report #177.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131345: perlio.c: PerlIOStdio_invalidate_fileno: g++ build failure on FreeBSD-10.3.
• Perl #131371: perldoc -f s doesn't find s///.
• Perl #131388: g++ vs subnormals in 5.26.0.
• Perl #131415: Perl 5.24+ Configure loses hints script changes.
• Perl #131484: Build Failure using VS2015.
• Perl #131485: Arbitrary linking of libcl in Configure on FreeBSD.
• Perl #131487: VS, Makefile, makefile.mk.
• Perl #131489: Test failures only on an AMD A10 Kaveri.
• Perl #131506: sprintf: %f rounding different in 5.24.0 and 5.26.0.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #23813: [PATCH] misleading example in perldoc -f flock.
• Perl #105930: eval 'UNITCHECK{die}' crashes inside FETCH.
• Perl #127742: Hash keys are limited to 2 GB.
• Perl #130814: heap uaf in Perl_yylex().
• Perl #130885: [PATCH] How to use Devel::PatchPerl to repair older builds.
• Perl #130893: Reuse code from defined macro.
• Perl #131085: segfault with symbol table and coderef.
• Perl #131142: if pragma POD addition for modules with an empty import list.
• Perl #131208: [PATCH] Upgrade Core with version-0.9918.
• Perl #131314: "unused parameter" warning when building with g++.
• Perl #131328: delete does not work on % slices.
• Perl #131371: perldoc -f s doesn't find s///.

Discussion

The conversation on adding new string macros and normalizing existing ones continues.