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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
July 24, 2013 16:09
Subject:
Re: upcoming release of 5.18.1
Message ID:
51EFFC2F.3000809@khwilliamson.com
On 07/24/2013 03:57 AM, Peter Martini wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Ricardo Signes
> <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
>>
>> We are due for a release of maint-5.18.  This ticket is meant to list blockers:
>>
>>    https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=118437
>>
>> Currently, none are listed.  If there are commits to nominate for backporting,
>> please name them now so they can be discussed and either cherry picked or not.
>>
>> My tentative schedule is to have an RC of 5.18.1 in about a week, followed in a
>> few days by the release itself.  If we have a slew of backports to consider,
>> this will take longer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> rjbs
>
> I'd like to nominate
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/da46ab3732c369c451e8f975eeca0700552ac282,
> a very minor but occasionally necessary fix in the AIX hints file.
>

+1; only affects this hints file.

Also, I'm nominating:

1cb2b5d4ff78efbd407ee199ed0ed9ff0227cecb
Allow qr/(?[ [a] ])/ interpolation in (?[...])

What this means is that without this simple fix, this new feature can't 
be used in a string eval if it contains embedded [].

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