Feels like many people are enjoying the nice weather. So a bit of a quiet week. Feels a lot like the quiet before the storm, though! 🙂

Core Developments

Jonathan Worthington squashed another set of concurrency related issues, e.g. making async sockets a lot more stable when under load.

squashed another set of concurrency related issues, e.g. making async sockets a lot more stable when under load. TimToady improved several warnings / error messages, as well as improving on the efficiency of many common internal AST Node annotations.

improved several warnings / error messages, as well as improving on the efficiency of many common internal annotations. TimToady also fixed a problem with loop and repeat not properly sinking (discarding generated values) by default.

also fixed a problem with and not properly sinking (discarding generated values) by default. Zoffix Znet fixed quite a few tickets related to error reporting and warnings.

fixed quite a few tickets related to error reporting and warnings. Elizabeth Mattijsen made @a.splice($offset) about 40x faster and made sure Thai digits ( "\x0e50" .. "\x0e59" , AKA ๐๑๒๓๔๕๖๗๘๙ ) now smart increment/decrement correctly.

made about 40x faster and made sure Thai digits ( .. , AKA ) now smart increment/decrement correctly. Many other smaller fixes and efficiency improvements.

Documentation Developments

gfldex reports again from the documentation effort:

Pragmas got their own section now.

Links to automatically generated pages got unbroken.

Documentation of role Setty got completed and examples fixed.

got completed and examples fixed. The About section got fixes.

The Concurrency section got improved.

Experimental got its own section now.

Documentation of role s was added to the typesystem documentation along with a few additions that were not documented anywhere else.

s was added to the typesystem documentation along with a few additions that were not documented anywhere else. The trusts trait is now documented.

trait is now documented. All precedence traits are now documented.

Many more examples are now compiled to check correctness leading to a few more examples being unbroken.

Many more small additions, fixes and index entries all over the place.

Blog Posts

Ecosystem Additions

CoreHackers::Sourcery by Zoffix Znet

Doublephone by Jonathan Stowe

MetaCPAN::Favorite by Shoichi Kaji

Winding down

Only 2 more weeks or so until the YAPC::Europe. The tension is mounting! 🙂