October 11th-17th News and highlights Perl 5.24.1 RC4 is [1]out! Perl 5.22.2 RC4 is [2]out! Issues New issues * [3]Perl #129851: Bleadperl v5.25.5-43-g607ee43 breaks CDOLAN/Devel-EnforceEncapsulation-0.51.tar.gz. * [4]Perl #129866: hv.c: Assertion failure. * [5]Perl #129868: Assertion failure: void S_mro_gather_and_rename. * [6]Perl #129869: Perl_sv_setsv_flags: Assertion failure. * [7]Perl #129880: regcomp.c: Assertion failure. * [8]Perl #129888: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5. * [9]Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b. * [10]Perl #129892: sub calls show as gv(IV \). * [11]Perl #129893: gv.c: Assertion failure. * [12]Perl #129897: Unexpected behavior with a regular expression. * [13]Perl #129898: op.c: Assertion failure. * [14]Perl #129903: regexec.c stack overflow. Resolved issues * [15]Perl #128996: heap-use-after-free Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr (utf8.c:918). * [16]Perl #129789: [17]Time::HiRes broken in blead on darwin. * [18]Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b. Suggested patches Thomas Sibley provided some patchs for [19]Module::CoreList, one of which is [20]Perl #129858 , which exposes information about utilities that come with core, and the versiono in which they were introduced. Andrew Fresh provided a patch in [21]Perl #129895 to fix a test in OpenBSD. Discussion Proving it is never too late to help, Dmitry Karasik [22]provided an answer to a question Jakko Hietaniemi asked a year ago, on results of testing the perl source with the [23]viva64 source code analysis tool. Following the conversation about the definition of a hash key, Todd Rinaldo [24]raises a few interesting questions and provides a suggested patch for simplifying the structure. Dave Nicol [25]provided an invested response to Dave Mitchell's question on the topic of (\@a) = \($x,$y) in non-void context. Dave Mitchell on the same topic [26]provided another observation regarding list assignment in list context. Christian Walde [27]asked about the current maintainership status of [28]Cwd and [29]File::Spec. Jarkko Hietaniemi [30]provided an update about the status of perl on NetBSD/VAX. It's now passing about 98% of the tests. References 1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240224 2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240223 3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129851 4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129866 5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129868 6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129869 7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129880 8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129888 9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129891 10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129892 11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129893 12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129897 13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129898 14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129903 15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128996 16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129789 17. http://metacpan.org/pod/Time::HiRes 18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129891 19. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::CoreList 20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129858 21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129895 22. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240238 23. http://www.viva64.com/en/pvs-studio/ 24. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240246 25. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240189 26. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240295 27. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240280 28. http://metacpan.org/pod/Cwd 29. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Spec 30. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240278Thread Next