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

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June 12th-19th

News

Eric Herman released Perl 5.27.1!

Tony Cook added a new Travis CI configuration, based on work by c9s and Dennis Kararsemaker. You can read more at Perl #123981.

Grant Reports

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 reports #179, #180.

Issues

New Issues

Resolved Issues

Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch to resolve Perl #131597: NULL pointer reference in Perl_newRV() .

Discussion

Paul (LeoNerd) Evans asked ( lib/_charnames.pm puts references in %^H ) for a clarification about %^H which is leading to an improvement in the documentation on the topic.

In new versions you may not use a bitwise operation on characters above 0xFF , but as Graham Knop raises (Behavior of bitwise ops on unencountered wide characters), this violates a possible optimized way to determine a string or number value.