Re: 5.42.1 maintenance release?

[email protected] (Steve Hay via perl5-porters)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 11:54, Steve Hay <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 at 23:30, Lukas Mai <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi porters,
> >
> > I'd love to see a perl 5.42.1 maintenance release, even if it only contains https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/96673a4bb36a. (This commit fixes a very annoying crash in the parser/compiler when it encounters certain 2-variable 'for' loops: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23405 )
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> > To that end I've created https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/maint-votes/votes-5.42.xml and I invite you to vote or add your own issues.
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> I'd be happy to take this up soon. We often have a .1 late in the year
> or early the next year, so the timing is about right.

My apologies for delaying too long on this for various reasons. On the
plus side, khw has very recently got PR#23921 merged, which fixes a
regression in 5.42, so now could be a good time to get this done.

I've updated the voting file with that PR and am in the process of
looking for further candidates for back-porting. If anyone has any
suggestions then feel free to send them my way, or add them to the
voting file directly.
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