Re: PSC #224 2026-05-11

[email protected] (James E Keenan) Tue, 12 May 2026 07:15:06 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/12/26 00:28, Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters wrote:
> All three of us attended further final release preparation. Issue triage continued; a number of small issues came in late, and we merged some of them. We also [reverted][1] a late [small fix][2] that we had merged recently which turned out to [cause problems][3]. Overall we once again left the meeting without open release blockers.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24410 "#24410 Revert \"SelfLoader: don't mix buffered and unbuffered I/O\""
> [2]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24404 "#24404 SelfLoader: don't mix buffered and unbuffered I/O"
> [3]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24407 "#24407 7a6d188450d generates new test failures on FreeBSD and Linux"
> 
> https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2026/05/this-week-in-psc-224-2026-05-11.html

Do you have a date for a Release Candidate tarball?

Are there in place any testing procedures for a RC tarball above and 
beyond what a monthly development release gets?