Re: 5.42.1 maintenance release?

On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 at 17:26, Steve Hay <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

I've added a couple more suggestions to the voting file. If nobody
proposes anything else then I will go ahead with the release in the
next week or two, after the latest suggestions have (hopefully) been
voted on.