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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
July 30, 2013 19:42
Subject:
Re: upcoming release of 5.18.1
Message ID:
20130730194230.GS2177@iabyn.com
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:51:54AM -0400, Ricardo Signes 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.

I'd suggest

    #118213: /$qr/p broken under 5.18.0

    my $pat = qr/a/;
    'aaaa' =~ /$pat/gp or die;
    print "MATCH=[${^MATCH}]\n";

prints 'a' in 5.16.0, undef in 5.18.0.

I've just fixed it in blead with 5b0e71e9d5, and I've just pushed a
2-commit maint-5.18 variant available as davem/maint-5.18-118213, should
it be deemed suitable for maint (which I think it definitely should), and
should it be deemed suitable for 5.18.1 (which is more debatable, given
that the fix hasn't had time to be smoked, BBC'd etc, and that 5.18.1 is
due RSN.)

-- 
My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably why
he got thrown out of the fire brigade.

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