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

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January 2nd-8th

News and updates

Perl 5.22.3-RC5 is now available!

Perl 5.24.1-RC5 is now available!

Sawyer X announced every deprecation will include a release in which it takes effect and a list of previous and current deprecations with their release dates, based on an agreement at the core hackathon.

Grant reports

Issues

New issues

We have a META new ticket to track all the blocking issues for 5.26.0: Perl #127688.

Resolved issues

Rejected issue

Suggested patches

Dave Mitchell provided a fix for Perl #78288 to make ref in boolean context faster, but suggests only merging this in 5.26.0 due to possible changes in other B modules to accommodate this change.

Aaron Crane provided (Re: Does the range operator still have the Unicode Bug?) a patch to update the documentation for the range operator Unicode bug fix.

Sergey Aleynikov provided a patch in Perl #130504 to fix a memory leak in B.

Colin Newell provided a patch to improve the documentation of newSVpv to recommend using newSVpvn .

Discussion

Karl Williamson asks whether qr//xx could already be re-purposed in 5.26, since it has been deprecated for two versions, starting in 5.22.

Andy Lester's question about booleans in the core resulted in a merged patch by Aaron Crane.