Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

Edit: Perl #132548 (Possible memory leak in S_regclass ) was not rejected. It was fixed.

December 6th-10th

News and Updates

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason created a proposed (RFC: Adding a perldisthist POD page) POD file for the various versions of Perl included in each distribution version.

Dave Rolsky shares ("Vulnerability" in Perl in the news) that Perl appears in the news because of a module that evals input.

Grant Reports

Zefram TPF Grant 2017 week 49.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report 188.

Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 1.

Issues

New Issues

Resolved Issues

Rejected Issues

Perl #130145: Storable.dll causes ODBC Table name truncation in DBI.

Suggested Patches

A patch was provided by Chris to expand perldata regarding list assignments in Perl #132538.