Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: December 19th-25th

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http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/12/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-december-19th-25th.html
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                               December 19th-25th

   Perl 5.25.8 is now [1]available!

News and updates

   There are some pending changes in XS for core UTF-8 handling,
[2]announced
   by Karl Williamson. In short, there are new, safer UTF-8 macros and the
   existing macros are deprecated.

   Jim Keenan is [3]asking for help reviewing a set of patches to
   [4]Storable.

Issues

  New issues

     * [5]Perl #130385: Bleadperl v5.25.7-12-ge03e82a breaks
       TDRUGEON/List-Pairwise-1.03.tar.gz.
     * [6]Perl #130393: h2xs: Support for _Bool/stdbool.h?.
     * [7]Perl #130397: Unnecessary whitespace skipping in
       Perl__swash_to_invlist.
     * [8]Perl #130398: Bleadperl v5.25.7-97-g98d5e3e breaks
       BAREFOOT/Method-Signatures-20160315.tar.gz.

  Resolved issues

     * [9]Perl #126310: no "Malformed UTF-8 character" warning on
       single-quoted strings under "use utf8".
     * [10]Perl #128966: Bleadperl v5.25.3-232-g10f9b9b breaks
       LEONT/Const-Fast-0.014.tar.gz.
     * [11]Perl #129821: Bleadperl v5.25.5-65-g5012eeb breaks
       JJORE/Devel-OptreeDiff-2.3.tar.gz.
     * [12]Perl #129851: Bleadperl v5.25.5-43-g607ee43 breaks
       CDOLAN/Devel-EnforceEncapsulation-0.51.tar.gz.
     * [13]Perl #130163: lib/locale.t fails on FreeBSD 10.
     * [14]Perl #130324: Inconsistent behaviour of continue inside given
       inside while.
     * [15]Perl #130335: sort{$a<=>$b} fails to sort occasionally.
     * [16]Perl #130385: Bleadperl v5.25.7-12-ge03e82a breaks
       TDRUGEON/List-Pairwise-1.03.tar.gz.
     * [17]Perl #130397: Unnecessary whitespace skipping in
       Perl__swash_to_invlist.
     * [18]Perl #130398: Bleadperl v5.25.7-97-g98d5e3e breaks
       BAREFOOT/Method-Signatures-20160315.tar.gz.

  Suggested patches

   James Keenan provided a patch for [19]Perl #130324 (Inconsistent
behaviour
   of continue inside given inside while).

References

   1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241739
   2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241795
   3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241802
   4. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable
   5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130385
   6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130393
   7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130397
   8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130398
   9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126310
  10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128966
  11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129821
  12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129851
  13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130163
  14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130324
  15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130335
  16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130385
  17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130397
  18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130398
  19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130324