Today is March 24, 2014. There are approximately 57 days until the expected release of Perl 5.20.0. A summary of blockers follows. ## Critical Behavior Changes or Bugs 1. $!, UTF8, and locales https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119499 I hope to make a post about this soon. 2. /m causing false negative https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121484 This is a big deal and needs fixing. 3. "Make perlbug Unicode-aware" broke perlbug on Win32 https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121277 I'd rather not revert the change, but we need this to work on Win32. ## Other Bugs 4. IO::Socket getsockopt subroutine on AIX https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120835 We have a patch. It needs review, application, and testing. 5. p /x in debugger yields memory fault https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120998 "Yup. That's a real bug." I think it's really a blocker, too. 6. Gconvert() obeys LC_NUMERIC without "use locale" https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121317 Karl asserts that the change is correct, although a new macro may be warranted. I think I agree. Dissenters should dissent soon. It would probably be nice to have that wrapper available soon, too. ## BBC Reports 7. PERLER/JavaScript-Dumper-0.011.tar.gz https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121013 This is part of locale fixes for stringifying numbers. My gut instinct is to think that this is bound to be something for PERLER to fix downstream. 8. YVES/Data-Dump-Streamer-2.37.tar.gz https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121139 YVES said he'd follow up. Hey, Yves, what's the word? :) 9. RYBSKEJ/forks-0.34.tar.gz https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121352 I have no idea what's up here. Broken by "Make set-magic handle vstrings properly" ## Minor Issues 10. speed up miniperl @INC, buildsitecustomize https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121119 I think we can surely live without this, but it looks like something we can *probably* apply safely now. I'd like to get a few ±1's from committers. 11. core tests fail when built on FAT drive with Win32 OS on NTFS https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21442 This has been a problem forever, but the provided patch looks okay. That said, the patch also says it doesn't really fix the whole problem. I think the actual course of action for 5.20.0 is to add a Known Problems entry. Thoughts? ## To Observe Only These don't block 5.20.0, but are collected as things to keep an eye on. 12. New copy-on-write breaks CPAN https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=115910 I think that this has become an informational ticket. There are still some things broken, but "that's their problem." We would like to see them fixed, and will help if we can, but this isn't really *blocking* the next release. 13. document/publicize THINKFIRST https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116925 Documentation has been added. Tony has some further suggestions. This looks like is a meta-question to be answered: how much of what Tony suggests had best be done before 5.20? 14. Our Asian documentation should be updated https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117765 This is informational for me. I am going to make a renewed call for the un-updated documentation *today*. No matter what, I will close this ticket (possibly replacing it with more specific tickets) at or around 5.20.0. ## VALGRIND Finallly, some valgrind errors: 15. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121335 16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121366 17. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121373 We should try to get these cleared up ASAP, because (a) some are sure to take longer than we think and (b) probably we'll find a few more on the way there! -- rjbsThread Next