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

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March 5th-25th

News

Perl 5.28.0 will be postponed to May.

Perl 5.27.10 is now available!

Perl 5.24.4-RC1 is now available!

Perl 5.26.2-RC1 is now available!

Grant Reports

• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 10 report.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 11 report.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 12 report.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 13.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 14.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 2018 February
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report for weeks #200-#201.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report for week #202.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132950: Blead Breaks CPAN: Dancer2.
• Perl #132954: Regarding Perl installation.
• Perl #132955: USE_CPLUSPLUS build broken in 5.27 blead and all 5.26 stables.
• Perl #132964: Missing newSVsv_nomg macro variant.
• Perl #132976: enhancement proposal for caller().
• Perl #132992: [PATCH] for perl static build for gcc+win32 .
• Perl #132996: Re: Null pointer dereference in Perl_pp_multiconcat.
• Perl #132999: Compile fails with -DPERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13 on GCC7.3: static declaration of S_perl_siphash_seed_state follows non-static declaration.
• Perl #133009: stacksize in Storable failure on Windows XP.
• Perl #133010: [BBC]: Commit 0740a29 breaks Devel::NYTProf.
• Perl #133014: [BBC]: Commit 1381350 (Time::HiRes synch with CPAN) breaks Catalyst::Runtime and others.
• Perl #133021: Removed the word "discouraged" from threads' documentation.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131135: make test.valgrind doesn't work on cpan, dist, ext.
• Perl #131190: erroneous regex warning after utf8 conversion.
• Perl #131628: Memory leak in S_pmtrans.
• Perl #131211: The glob() function is exponential on pathological patterns.
• Perl #131214: readdir_r is deprecated.
• Perl #131930: s[foo] \n [bar] confuses line numbers.
• Perl #132163: perl: sv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #132870: Storable dclone() broken (latest VS 2017 32-bit).
• Perl #132902: Blead Breaks CPAN: Class::Std.
• Perl #132926: [PATCH] 10s of KB to 100s of KB binary bloat with Visual C Perl related to Perl_SCX/charclass_invlists.h.

Suggested Patches

Bulk88 provided a patch in Perl #132943 (File::Glob bsd_glob.c: don't use "loop" as a goto label).

Bulk88 also provided a patch in Perl #132974: [PATCH] ExtUtils::Constant fix "panic: failed to extend arg stack".

Another patch from Bulk88 in Perl #132982: [PATCH] remove all exported symbols from GCC win32 miniperl.

And also from Bulk88, one in Perl #133024: [PATCH] remove distros from needing ppport.h in core.

A patch from Pali for Devel::PPPort in Perl #132984: [PATCH] Devel::PPPort Use prefix D_PPP_ for helper macros.

Another from Pali for Encode in Perl #132967: [PATCH] Encode: Remove XS functions _bytes_to_utf8() and _utf8_to_bytes().

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #133009: (stacksize in Storable failure on Windows XP).

Discussions

Should we remove support for Ultrix? Karl Williamson asks.

Karl is working on updating the advice for using Address Sanitizer in perlhacktips and is looking for recommended compilation flags.

We need help testing Perl on Darwin (OS X). If you want to help, let us know!