13 Pull requests merged by 6 people

• Implement assigning xor (^^=) operator

  #23242 merged May 5, 2025

• Do the required JMPENV dance when invoking a nested runloop for defer…

  #23244 merged May 5, 2025

• perlnumber: Leading 0 in string doesn't imply octal

  #23258 merged May 4, 2025

• podcheck.t: Minimize exceptions db entries

  #23245 merged May 4, 2025

• perlfunc: Improve each, keys, values pod

  #23260 merged May 4, 2025

• perlvar: Add link to remaining legal $# use

  #23252 merged May 4, 2025

• perlop/perlvar: Mention diamond operators

  #23250 merged May 4, 2025

• ExtUtils::ParseXS: Update $VERSION in Maintainers.pl

  #23257 merged May 4, 2025

• Simplify strict.pm

  #22848 merged May 4, 2025

• Update the PerlSecPol to cover our new CVE process and provide an example.

  #23239 merged May 3, 2025

• Update copies of GPL to match recent FSF changes

  #23240 merged May 2, 2025

• cpan/experimental - Update to version 0.035

  #23235 merged May 2, 2025

• perlrecharclass: minor clean-up of "Extended Bracketed Character Classes"

  #23233 merged May 1, 2025

16 Pull requests opened by 5 people

• sv.c: make PUSH_EXTEND_MORTAL__SV_C an inline function

  #23234 opened May 1, 2025

• cpan/File-Fetch - Update to version 1.08

  #23236 opened May 1, 2025

• lib/Unicode/UCD.pm: tidy indents in list of exports

  #23246 opened May 3, 2025

• perlop: Remove extra parens in verbatim examples

  #23247 opened May 3, 2025

• perlretut: Remove obsolete caution about \G

  #23248 opened May 3, 2025

• perlref: Add example of lhs postfix deref

  #23249 opened May 4, 2025

• perlpacktut: Remove some jargon

  #23251 opened May 4, 2025

• perlop: Add here-doc examples

  #23253 opened May 4, 2025

• perlembed, perlthrtut, Clarify threads vs ithreads

  #23254 opened May 4, 2025

• op.c: Make ifdef structure of argument to S_op_clear_gv() less objectionable to syntax parsers

  #23255 opened May 4, 2025

• cpan/Test-Harness - Update to version 3.52

  #23256 opened May 4, 2025

• Add test and docs about multiple identical block labels

  #23259 opened May 4, 2025

• Win32: eliminate the sys_intern fdpid aka w32_fdpid

  #23262 opened May 6, 2025

• perlfunc: Remove self-referential links

  #23263 opened May 6, 2025

• pod and comments: Note escape vs quote

  #23264 opened May 6, 2025

• openbsd: ensure we link to the built libperl.a, not the system libperl.a

  #23265 opened May 7, 2025

12 Issues closed by 6 people

• Documentation for split uses single quotes for PATTERN parameter

  #14802 closed May 5, 2025

• /\G^/ seems abnormally slow

  #14220 closed May 5, 2025

• ^^= is not implemented

  #23238 closed May 5, 2025

• defer/finally block with caught exception exits current runops loop

  #23064 closed May 5, 2025

• [doc] perlnumber: Negative octal number as a string evaluates to decimal number in numeric operations

  #18583 closed May 4, 2025

• [doc] Add array examples to "each" documentation

  #17719 closed May 4, 2025

• [doc] Steer users trying to find $# documentation

  #21682 closed May 4, 2025

• [doc] perlgpl.pod: GPL v1 text might be outdated

  #22952 closed May 2, 2025

• BBC: c844eac triggers failures in Devel::Cover

  #22439 closed May 2, 2025

• Perl SEGV

  #23241 closed May 2, 2025

• Say 'syntax error near "$"', not the following statement

  #22038 closed May 1, 2025

• regex: memory bug when recursively matching a Regexp reference though an embeded code block with a subroutine

  #21725 closed Apr 30, 2025

4 Issues opened by 3 people

• Calling `keys` on an undefined hash key defines it(?)

  #23266 opened May 7, 2025

• SV PV COW 255 doesn't support strings under 9 SvCUR() bytes long

  #23261 opened May 5, 2025

• Perl_repeatcpy() arg 4 "IV count" has overflow on 32b CPUs

  #23243 opened May 2, 2025

• [doc] need a CONTRIBUTING.md document?

  #23237 opened May 1, 2025

28 Unresolved conversations

Sometimes conversations happen on old items that aren’t yet closed. Here is a list of all the Issues and Pull Requests with unresolved conversations.

• Dedicated SV copying code in place of Perl_sv_setsv_flags

  #23202 commented on May 6, 2025 • 8 new comments

• ParseXS: build an AST for each XSUB

  #23225 commented on May 7, 2025 • 1 new comment

• add custom error for 'catch (my $e)'

  #23228 commented on May 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• hints/darwin.sh: skip ldflags in lddlflags

  #23227 commented on Apr 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• better suggestions for builtin::trim equivalence (Resolves #23212)

  #23216 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Unicode:UCD Clarify pod for num()

  #23007 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• readline: clear the error flag if the error happens to be EAGAIN

  #22907 commented on May 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Simplify the recommended alternatives to rand()

  #22873 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• UCRTbase.dll toupper() is 133x slower wall time than perl/msvcrt.dll

  #23037 commented on May 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add LOCAL method; was "local first sets to undef then assigns, but is documented to 'initialize'"

  #14294 commented on May 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• incompatible change in number literals since v5.32

  #22040 commented on May 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] perldata hash slice example will blow up if used for more than depth 1

  #17721 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] pod/perlvar.pod: should the <<>> operator be mentioned more often?

  #23100 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] perldebguts does not have any info how to check that we are in THREADED mode

  #22854 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] perlpacktut

  #19203 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Phaser: what does that mean in Perl context?

  #22281 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] PerlIO::encoding, error in documentation, FB_PERLQQ et.al.

  #18907 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Deprecation of GIMME long promised but not yet scheduled

  #22532 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] Size of IV & UV in perlguts & perl.h

  #18995 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• cpan/Encode/t/Unicode_trailing_nul.t leaves temp files behind

  #23221 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] Some tutorials have drifted into the following section

  #17710 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] perlapi doesn’t define SvMAGICAL

  #18956 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] Nits with builtin::trim

  #23212 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] -a -f and -v not support regex

  #21690 commented on May 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• (*ACCEPT) behavior when forward-matching and when backtracking

  #21825 commented on May 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• read from append write only file handle breaks the following writes

  #23026 commented on May 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Problems with exposing is_utf8()

  #20419 commented on May 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Document regex_sets

  #23232 commented on Apr 30, 2025 • 0 new comments