18 Pull requests merged by 9 people

• perldelta: fix a typo and formatting for the cygwin base address note

  #23382 merged Jun 24, 2025

• Prepare perldelta for the release of v5.42.0

  #23366 merged Jun 24, 2025

• class.c: clean up any state if we don't finish the class

  #22374 merged Jun 19, 2025

• Clean up PL_strtab hash with NULL in perl_destruct

  #23346 merged Jun 19, 2025

• Simplify the recommended alternatives to rand()

  #22873 merged Jun 13, 2025

• maint-5.38: porting test failure; must run make regen

  #23347 merged Jun 12, 2025

• Use PerlLIO_dup_cloexec in Perl_dirp_dup to set O_CLOEXEC

  #23361 merged Jun 9, 2025

• perlintern: my_cxt_init is not string handling

  #23329 merged Jun 8, 2025

• perlop: Clean up here-doc documentation

  #23345 merged Jun 8, 2025

• Switch away from Windows Server 2019 for CI

  #23350 merged Jun 2, 2025

• perlop: Fix quote-like operators section

  #23341 merged May 30, 2025

• perlintern: Note that prefer inline function to PL_Sv

  #23328 merged May 30, 2025

• perlop: Fixups

  #23286 merged May 30, 2025

• ExtUtils-CBuilder: fix test failure when CXX env var is set

  #23339 merged May 29, 2025

• Run i386 tests on debian instead of ubuntu

  #23338 merged May 29, 2025

• hints/darwin.sh: skip ldflags in lddlflags

  #23227 merged May 29, 2025

• op/readline_nb: non-threaded win32 croaks instead of failing on ioctl…

  #23337 merged May 29, 2025

• Clone dirhandles without fchdir

  #23019 merged May 28, 2025

21 Pull requests opened by 9 people

• perlapi/perlintern: Note binary-compatibility-only entries

  #23332 opened May 27, 2025

• scope.c S_save_scalar_at() pick right type from the start

  #23334 opened May 28, 2025

• Make :utf8 an actually validating layer

  #23342 opened May 30, 2025

• Cleanup - break positional requirement of keywords

  #23343 opened May 31, 2025

• factor out 3 high usage COND_*() API croak() messages on Win32

  #23344 opened May 31, 2025

• Make OP_DEFINED eligible for constant folding

  #23349 opened Jun 1, 2025

• Add details tag to issue template

  #23353 opened Jun 4, 2025

• Simplify sentence in `perlpacktut.pod`

  #23354 opened Jun 4, 2025

• don't call vivifier macros Perl_error_log/Perl_debug_log in a loop

  #23356 opened Jun 5, 2025

• perlrun: add caution that the -C flag does not validate nor produce UTF-8

  #23357 opened Jun 5, 2025

• WIP Add resolving of $PROGRAM_NAME from /dev/fd/number

  #23358 opened Jun 5, 2025

• Perl_more_bodies - figure out sizing from sv_type

  #23360 opened Jun 8, 2025

• Optimise away empty if{}, elsif{}. and else {} blocks

  #23367 opened Jun 11, 2025

• Perl_newSLICEOP: Optimise '(caller)[0]' into 'scalar caller'

  #23369 opened Jun 12, 2025

• mg.c: Perl_magic_get() dont call libc's getter func _errno() over and over

  #23370 opened Jun 13, 2025

• pp_reverse - chunk-at-a-time string reversal

  #23371 opened Jun 13, 2025

• scope_types.h dont include a const static char arr [59]; in every TU

  #23372 opened Jun 15, 2025

• pp_reverse - chunk-at-a-time string reversal (part 2/msvc fix)

  #23374 opened Jun 17, 2025

• win32_isatty() dont call a mostly failing syscall, NT->WIN err conv is slow

  #23375 opened Jun 17, 2025

• regcomp_invlist.c: Perl_populate_bitmap_from_invlist() optimize asserts

  #23376 opened Jun 17, 2025

• clearly state from which feature bundles onwards the "unfeatures" are disabled

  #23378 opened Jun 19, 2025

23 Issues closed by 8 people

• [doc] SYNOPSIS Net::LDAP::LDIF->new

  #23381 closed Jun 23, 2025

• perl cannot recover from failed class definitions (use feature "class";)

  #22169 closed Jun 19, 2025

• m// resets $_[0] when sub is called from s///e

  #23362 closed Jun 10, 2025

• Unexpected syntax error in map when first element is literal

  #22716 closed Jun 9, 2025

• Not OK: perl 5.17.3 on PA-RISC2.0-LP64 11.23 (UNINSTALLED)

  #12297 closed Jun 9, 2025

• Perl crash due to wrong delimiter in PATH env

  #11500 closed Jun 9, 2025

• Not OK: perl 5.10.0 on sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64-ld 2.10

  #9782 closed Jun 9, 2025

• perl -V 1000s of lines long/make_patchnum.pl has unbounded CPU and disk usage

  #14805 closed Jun 9, 2025

• perldoc does not generate doc properly if run as root and file is not world readable

  #17701 closed Jun 9, 2025

• 5.22.0 documentation request: How to debug "handshake key" errors

  #14714 closed Jun 5, 2025

• Configure tests for 5.005 or later, but its `getverlist` uses a pack feature from 5.9.4

  #23289 closed Jun 3, 2025

• The Windows 2019 Actions runner image will begin deprecation on 2025-06-01 and will be fully unsupported by 2025-06-30

  #23348 closed Jun 2, 2025

• BBC: SYBER/Test-Catch-2.0.1.tar.gz et al.: Attempt to access disallowed key 'xsi' in a restricted hash

  #22713 closed Jun 2, 2025

• [doc] perlop: splitting of the section about 'or' and 'xor'

  #18565 closed May 30, 2025

• ExtUtils-CBuilder/t/03-cplusplus.t failed when ENV{CXX} is defined

  #23277 closed May 29, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Pod::Usage

  #23280 closed May 29, 2025

• perl-5.41.13 fails t/op/readline_nb.t on unthreaded builds

  #23335 closed May 29, 2025

• Thread creation while a directory handle is open does a fchdir, affecting other threads (race condition)

  #23010 closed May 29, 2025

• Wrong file:line reported by `caller` during global destruction

  #22855 closed May 27, 2025

• Windows won't compile without threads

  #17601 closed May 27, 2025

• The perl "read" function can continue to read after EOF

  #4014 closed May 27, 2025

• embeded die calls printf, unlike non-embeded version

  #3965 closed May 27, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Data::Clone and others

  #20782 closed May 27, 2025

16 Issues opened by 13 people

• [doc] parsing errors when generating perltoc from perlfunc

  #23380 opened Jun 21, 2025

• Mention the "unfeatures" more clearly in feature.pm

  #23379 opened Jun 19, 2025

• Values from command-line switch `-s` are not in UTF-8

  #23377 opened Jun 19, 2025

• [doc] Clarify map's special treatment of braces

  #23373 opened Jun 16, 2025

• Error during 5.40.2 installation on MacBook, `--force` flag does not work also

  #23368 opened Jun 12, 2025

• Create a script in Porting to merge dev perldeltas into the new stable perldelta

  #23365 opened Jun 11, 2025

• regcomp.c: regexp_engine* Perl_current_re_engine(): might do SvIV(NULL) or SvIV(*(SV**)NULL)

  #23364 opened Jun 10, 2025

• Parsing "\c\" is broken at the end of a double-quoted string.

  #23363 opened Jun 10, 2025

• S_regnode_guts()/S_change_engine_size() are doing for( ; ; ){ was_0x30 = realloc(was_0x30, 0x30); }

  #23359 opened Jun 8, 2025

• executing the test command dist/ExtUtils-CBuilder/t/03-cplusplusplus fails,

  #23355 opened Jun 5, 2025

• sockaddr_in Returns Port 0 When Passed Regexp Capture in Recent Perl Versions

  #23352 opened Jun 3, 2025

• Issue with $PROGRAM_NAME (sudo + checksum verification)

  #23351 opened Jun 2, 2025

• Consistent I/O function error return values

  #23340 opened May 30, 2025

• Regex with closing square bracket but no opening bracket is parsed

  #23336 opened May 29, 2025

• Add support for AIX openxlc clang compiler

  #23333 opened May 27, 2025

• 5.41.13 thru EU::MM 7.72 breaks all i386 Win32 XS .dll during linking if they add any extra "-lsome_c_lib"es

  #23331 opened May 26, 2025

53 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 Jun 14, 2025 • 34 new comments

• Win32: htonl/htons/ntohl/ntohs change slow winsock exports -> 1 CPU op/ins

  #23330 commented on Jun 19, 2025 • 4 new comments

• SvPV_shrink_to_cur: include space for COW

  #23290 commented on Jun 18, 2025 • 2 new comments

• win32: allow build with USE_ITHREADS=undef but USE_IMP_SYS=define

  #23178 commented on Jun 24, 2025 • 1 new comment

• BBC: Blead Breaks EV

  #22353 commented on May 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• close(STDOUT) does not wait on MS-Windows

  #4106 commented on Jun 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23026 commented on Jun 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• IPC::Open3 directs output incorrectly when STDOUT not connected to fd#1

  #9759 commented on Jun 25, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Warnings on exit when DBI handle is global variable and there is assignment from subroutine

  #23306 commented on Jun 25, 2025 • 0 new comments

• proof of concept/performance test for use float

  #17831 commented on Jun 13, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add posix_spawn support

  #19339 commented on May 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• sv_setsv_cow: only succeed if sv_setsv() would also COW

  #22120 commented on Jun 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• perlapi: Document sv_dup(_inc)?

  #22291 commented on May 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Fix huge inline bloat msvc sv inline h

  #22667 commented on Jun 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Return WIN32_NO_SOCKETS for miniperl.exe

  #22679 commented on Jun 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• feature.pm add __END__, split POD, less IO/CPU parse time

  #22700 commented on Jun 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Fetch operands of binary operators in left-to-right order

  #23108 commented on Jun 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• S_invlist_trim - don't SvPV_renew if SvLEN(invlist) is < PTRSIZE larger

  #23111 commented on Jun 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Try to force inlining of newSV_type (i -> I in embed.fnc)

  #23190 commented on Jun 13, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ParseXS: build an AST for each XSUB

  #23225 commented on Jun 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23228 commented on May 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Win32: eliminate the sys_intern fdpid aka w32_fdpid

  #23262 commented on Jun 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23265 commented on Jun 25, 2025 • 0 new comments

• toke.c - only try to shrink an SV buffer when conceivably possible

  #23293 commented on Jun 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Mark clone_params_(del|new) as internal, not public API

  #23320 commented on May 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Mark do_open(), do_openn() as internal, not public

  #23323 commented on Jun 20, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Pass clone parameter to CLONE methods as a UV

  #23325 commented on May 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Segmentation fault in buildroot

  #23324 commented on May 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] "Check module versions" in Porting/release_managers_guide.pod makes no sense

  #23141 commented on May 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Perl SEGV

  #23326 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• defined operator not constant folded

  #16266 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• repetition operator does not throw error when right operand is too large

  #13324 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• suboptimal memory usage of repetition operator

  #13793 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• COWification seems expensive in PADMY variables

  #13880 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `pack` folded constants get the SvPADTMP flag set

  #19676 commented on Jun 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Storing difference of pointers in I32

  #20841 commented on Jun 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [doc] perlpacktut

  #19203 commented on Jun 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [feature] Drop support for Win32 platforms older than Windows Vista

  #18521 commented on Jun 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• A TODO test may leave files on the system after it's run

  #17596 commented on Jun 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23037 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23261 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• dangerous branch names in the security repository

  #12791 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• more given nonsense: what's a topicalizer?

  #11327 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `Data::Dumper` incomplete reference relationship

  #22888 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Perl 5.10.0 smart match with m//g fails to update pos

  #9783 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [regex] backref problem with quantified groups

  #8267 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• "local"/"my"/"our" inconsistent scope

  #13548 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• list v. scalar assignment to E?UID, E?GID

  #22018 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• caretx.c change breaks perl when /proc is not mounted

  #16715 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [PATCH] 5.28.1: $^X is undefined on Linux without /proc

  #16808 commented on Jun 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• IPv6 support missing in perl5.10, perl5.12

  #10439 commented on Jun 11, 2025 • 0 new comments

• perl -V being mockable is a security problem re: #21135 Errno archname/osvers too strict.

  #22939 commented on Jun 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• warn if '=>' is used in "map EXPR,LIST'

  #23110 commented on Jun 16, 2025 • 0 new comments