Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

December 11th - January 1st

Happy holidays!

News and Updates

Perl 5.27.7 is released!

The new smart match broke a considerable amount of CPAN modules and will therefore be reverted.

Andreas Koenig provided a patch to update CPAN.pm to 2.20-TRIAL.

Dave Mitchell suggested making PERL_OP_PARENT compulsory in 5.28.0. This has since been done.

Karl Williamson provided a new version of his implementation of script runs.

Is it time to declare string- and number-specific bitwise ops fully stable and enable it in use v5.28 ? Check Perl #123707.

Pip Cet provided an explanation of how he uses the SpiderMonkey GC to find memory leaks in Perl.

podlators 4.10 is out.

Grant Reports

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 10 report 2.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 10 report 3.

Zefram TPF Grant 2017 Week 50 report.

Zefram TPF Grant 2017 Week 51 report.

Zefram TPF Grant 2017 Week 52 report.

Zefram TPF Grant 2017 December report.

Issues

New Issues

Resolved Issues

Rejected Issues

Suggested Patches

Marco Fontani provided another patch (which was merged) to resolve Perl #116080 (Doc issues for system , exec , qx ).

Karl Williamson wonders ( regrepeat() ) whether we should introduce an optimization for repeating characters on a pattern like (foo)+ .

Discussions

Leon raised the need for a language design process.

Zefram raised (smartmatch/switch deprecation for 5.28) the topic of smart match again with regards to what to deprecate in smart match.