The Hacktoberfest 2018 is the 5th Edition. I am always surprised by the popularity of the event. Sometimes I wonder, why can't this be repeated every month of the year, instead of just October. Those who don't know what I am talking about, The Hacktoberfest challenge is an annual event run by DigitalOcean, where you are encouraged to submit at least 5 Pull Request to any distribution hosted on GitHub in the month of October. In return you will receive specially designed FREE T-Shirt delivered to you anywhere in the world. There is a still time for you to join. Please register now. Mohammad S. Anwar

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Announcements

Git Submodule Vulnerability

byJeff King The Git project has disclosed CVE-2018-17456, a vulnerability in Git that can cause arbitrary code to be executed when a user clones a malicious repository. Git v2.19.1 has been released with a fix, along with backports in v2.14.5, v2.15.3, v2.16.5, v2.17.2, and v2.18.1. We encourage all users to update their clients to protect themselves.

Boston Perl Mongers

byBill Ricker On 9th October 2018, The Boston Perl Mongers is hosted by MaxMind. The speaker for the event is Mark Fowler. He is going to talk about Perl Advent calendar.

Articles

Measuring language popularity

JKEGL) by Jeffrey Kegler Measures of language popularity, even those based on usage in actual codebases, are far more rough than you might think according to Jeffrey. Jeffrey's main interest, as usual, is parsing and he proposes a way to improve the counts with more sophisticated parsing. In the meantime, those of you skimming his post for just the stuff about how the language statistics are gathered (apparently they are not based on actual line counts) should glance at the footnotes.

Perl6::Math::Matrix

LICHTKIND) by Herbert Breunung In the ongoing series, Herbert, take us through naming methods. I like the way he build the story around the topic. A very informative take on the subject. A must read for every Perl6 lover.

Discussion

Code

Unicode::Properties slated for removal

byBen Bullock ( BKB Ben announced that he is planning to remove the module Unicode::Propoerties from CPAN, primarily because it is using faulty methodology to get the properties.

Web

CPAN

CPAN Security Advisory

VTI) by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi This is a database of the security advisories for the Perl modules uploaded to CPAN. This is a hand-picked database. If you want to be automatically notified when one of your dependencies has a security issue

Perl 5

Perl 5 interpreter Analyzer

bySvyatoslav Razmyslov Svyatoslav shares his findings when analyzing Perl 5 interpreter. Interesting read for Perl 5 lover.

Perl Tutorial A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.

Perl 6

Alias for Perl 6

ZOFFIX) by Zoffix Znet Zoffix re-opened the issue with the blog, requesting Larry Wall to create a language name alias for Perl 6.

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Events

London Perl Workshop 2018

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