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

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September 25th - October 1st

News and Updates

I'm looking for a release manager for the last releases of 5.27.x in March of 2018.

Issues

New Issues

Resolved Issues

Perl #120174: Debugger command regression: Now requires more spaces.

Perl #121440: spurious lstat calls in Perl_do_readline / glob .

calls in / . Perl #131532: swap needs to be removed from perlreapi .

Suggested Patches

Patches by Nicholas R. (Atoomic):

Perl #132159 (Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls in sv.c and toke.c ).

calls in and ). Perl #132160 (Use SvLEN_set / SvCUR_set in a few extra locations).

/ in a few extra locations). Perl #132171: Minor speedup improvement for pp_require .

Bo Lindbergh provided a patch for Perl #105918: Tied hashes stringify their hash keys as of 5.8.3.

Discussions