85 Pull requests merged by 23 people

• t/run/todo.t Add list of tickets we don't need tests for

  #23518 merged Aug 6, 2025

• embed.fnc: Need p flag for non-static public elements

  #23487 merged Aug 6, 2025

• Modernise File::Copy a little

  #23515 merged Aug 6, 2025

• todo test for GH 16865 (Assertion failure in Perl_pp_sort/S_POPMARK)

  #23538 merged Aug 6, 2025

• Add some missing bits in features documentation: class, keyword_any, keyword_all

  #23438 merged Aug 6, 2025

• class.c: Less cheating when creating accessor method CVs

  #23539 merged Aug 6, 2025

• Remove redundant assert() statements

  #23537 merged Aug 6, 2025

• lib/unicore/mktables: remove unused variable

  #23541 merged Aug 5, 2025

• Explicitly reject length(NAME) with typemaps other than T_PV

  #23479 merged Aug 4, 2025

• todo test for GH 18669 (dereferencing ternary skips autovivification)

  #23534 merged Aug 4, 2025

• dump.c: Fix broken c++ compilations in

  #23536 merged Aug 4, 2025

• regen/HeaderParser: Clarify/correct pod

  #23493 merged Aug 4, 2025

• perlintern: Certain functions wrongly marked visible

  #23492 merged Aug 4, 2025

• regen/HeaderParser: Pass line embed.fnc line number on

  #23490 merged Aug 4, 2025

• Improve -Dx, -Dt etc output, especially in threaded builds

  #23322 merged Aug 4, 2025

• move "illegal anon sub" error from toke.c to perly.y

  #23519 merged Aug 4, 2025

• t/run/todo.t: Skip -DDEBUGGING tests unless Configured

  #23530 merged Aug 3, 2025

• todo test for 14615 (<<>> deparses same as <>)

  #23482 merged Aug 3, 2025

• regen/embed.pl: Fix, refactor ARGS_ASSERT generation

  #23502 merged Aug 2, 2025

• Assorted File::stat changes and clean-up

  #23509 merged Aug 1, 2025

• File::stat: don't die on references

  #23508 merged Aug 1, 2025

• embed.fnc: Refactor comments about NN, NULLOK etc

  #23513 merged Jul 31, 2025

• class.c: gracefully handle reader definition after 'strict' error

  #23514 merged Jul 31, 2025

• Extra tests for array/list slices in scalar context

  #23481 merged Jul 31, 2025

• perlapi: PL_check and PL_hexdigit are arrays not macros

  #23501 merged Jul 31, 2025

• Reapply "op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization"

  #23499 merged Jul 30, 2025

• Attempt to remove deprecated uvuni_to_utf8()

  #23466 merged Jul 30, 2025

• Allow AIX to use openxlC as the C compiler

  #23476 merged Jul 30, 2025

• Rm obsolete apidoc mro_get_linear_isa_c3()

  #23489 merged Jul 30, 2025

• iperlsys.h,perl_inc_macro.h: Use std recursion guard name

  #23497 merged Jul 30, 2025

• AvFILL: Evaluate argument exactly once

  #23462 merged Jul 30, 2025

• perlapi: Restore pod/warn-unused-result for sv_pv()

  #23491 merged Jul 30, 2025

• perlhacktips: Clarify, add example

  #23494 merged Jul 30, 2025

• perlintern: djSP doesn't take arguments

  #23495 merged Jul 30, 2025

• perlapi: XS and kin are not typedefs

  #23496 merged Jul 30, 2025

• perlintern: comma_pDEPTH is not a typedef

  #23498 merged Jul 30, 2025

• Move comment to the referenced lines

  #23510 merged Jul 30, 2025

• Convert RT ticket reference to GH

  #23485 merged Jul 28, 2025

• sv.c: make PUSH_EXTEND_MORTAL__SV_C an inline function

  #23234 merged Jul 28, 2025

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

  #23228 merged Jul 28, 2025

• Make sure mathoms gets loaded; then rm sv_no(un)?locking

  #23477 merged Jul 28, 2025

• Empty out much of mathoms.c

  #23458 merged Jul 28, 2025

• embed.fnc: Update E flag description

  #23456 merged Jul 28, 2025

• embed.fnc: _invlist_union() not publicly accessible

  #23455 merged Jul 28, 2025

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

  #23367 merged Jul 28, 2025

• Silence autodoc warning

  #23480 merged Jul 27, 2025

• todo test for 16008 (truncate scalar fh)

  #23478 merged Jul 27, 2025

• Revert "Attempt to remove deprecated sv_locking/unlocking"

  #23475 merged Jul 26, 2025

• Perl_more_bodies - figure out sizing from sv_type

  #23360 merged Jul 24, 2025

• regmatch: Use new utf8_to_uv

  #22834 merged Jul 24, 2025

• perlapi: Combine is_safe_syscall, IS_SAFE_SYSCALL

  #23444 merged Jul 24, 2025

• Skip one test under miniperl; can't handle threads

  #23470 merged Jul 24, 2025

• Resolve any symlinks to cwd in dylib install name

  #23461 merged Jul 24, 2025

• Note when functions were first deprecated

  #23468 merged Jul 24, 2025

• Attempt to remove deprecated sv_locking/unlocking

  #23467 merged Jul 24, 2025

• perl.h: include locale related headers after we decide to use locales

  #23465 merged Jul 23, 2025

• newFOROP: fix crash when optimizing 2-var for over builtin::indexed

  #23429 merged Jul 23, 2025

• regcomp_trie: stringify *tmp before accessing string fields

  #23460 merged Jul 23, 2025

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

  #23178 merged Jul 23, 2025

• GH #23390 re/Makefile.PL silence uninit $args{"LINKTYPE"} warning

  #23392 merged Jul 23, 2025

• UCD.pm: Add check for parameter type

  #23301 merged Jul 22, 2025

• perlop: Clarify empty pattern section not valid for qr//

  #23411 merged Jul 22, 2025

• regen/locale.pl: Use 'USE_LOCALE" not 'NO_LOCALE'

  #23431 merged Jul 22, 2025

• regen/embed.pl Use /xx to clarify regex

  #23457 merged Jul 21, 2025

• croak_xs_usage pod: remove unnecessary diag_listed_as

  #23312 merged Jul 21, 2025

• Improve documentation of sv_dup and sv_dup_inc

  #23454 merged Jul 20, 2025

• Allow automatic long name macro generation

  #23434 merged Jul 19, 2025

• fixup the "maintenance track" lines back to 5.6

  #23413 merged Jul 19, 2025

• perldelta entry for ExtUtils::ParseXS work

  #23451 merged Jul 19, 2025

• perlintro: fix minor grammar mistake

  #23450 merged Jul 18, 2025

• perlintern: Document sv_dup(_inc)?

  #22291 merged Jul 17, 2025

• cpan/Socket - Update to version 2.040

  #23442 merged Jul 17, 2025

• Shrink struct RExC_state_t

  #23441 merged Jul 16, 2025

• Update the makefile to regenerate makedependfile when the developer changes the content of makedependfile.SH

  #23402 merged Jul 16, 2025

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

  #23108 merged Jul 15, 2025

• sv.c: sv_2mortal() move SvTEMP_on(sv); for RISC CPUs

  #23427 merged Jul 15, 2025

• 'try' and 'catch' are no longer experimental

  #23437 merged Jul 15, 2025

• perlapi: Remove non-existent #define

  #23439 merged Jul 15, 2025

• Remove unused override_recoding flag in struct RExC_state_t

  #23440 merged Jul 15, 2025

• Make OP_DEFINED eligible for constant folding

  #23349 merged Jul 14, 2025

• Add obituary for Matt S. Trout

  #23420 merged Jul 14, 2025

• t/io/nargv.t: Fix obsolete usage: @foo[-1]

  #23418 merged Jul 9, 2025

• Use ASCII apostrophe, not Unicode in a couple of .t files

  #23417 merged Jul 9, 2025

• we aren't going to run late INIT blocks, so don't save them

  #23219 merged Jul 9, 2025

• release_schedule: Add a new victim

  #23412 merged Jul 8, 2025

26 Pull requests opened by 8 people

• toke.c op.c : rmv 2nd realloc() when cat()ing HEK + "::" + PV

  #23414 opened Jul 8, 2025

• (diff name?) perl.h add SVVALIDIVX()/SVVALIDRV/SVVALILDNVX/SVVALIDPVX bitfield testers

  #23415 opened Jul 8, 2025

• makedepend_file.SH: Add some sed edits for z/OS

  #23416 opened Jul 9, 2025

• Update PL_main_thread on fork() and add more tests

  #23422 opened Jul 10, 2025

• DynaLoader.pm on Win32 bake in Config.pm (PERL_BUILD_EXPAND_CONFIG_VARS)

  #23423 opened Jul 11, 2025

• op.c auto-use attributes.pm; newSVpvs("attributes") -> newSVpvs_share()

  #23424 opened Jul 11, 2025

• op.c spread bareword packages:: around as SV* HEK* COWs

  #23425 opened Jul 11, 2025

• ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c add HEK* COWs and remove strlen()s

  #23426 opened Jul 11, 2025

• op.c toke.c add gv_override_pvs() change manual string lit. lens to macros

  #23428 opened Jul 11, 2025

• pp.c pp_argelem() dont make SV* tmp bufs in a loop to strip GMG

  #23445 opened Jul 17, 2025

• Convert Perl_uvoffuni_to_utf8_flags to a macro

  #23459 opened Jul 21, 2025

• perlfunc - warn of platform specific quirks in gethost* and co.

  #23472 opened Jul 25, 2025

• Use compiler builtins to detect "simple common cases" in pp_add, pp_subtract, and pp_multiply

  #23503 opened Jul 29, 2025

• perl5db: fixes for issues related to overloads

  #23506 opened Jul 29, 2025

• peep.c: Only remove expected empty if/else block structures

  #23512 opened Jul 30, 2025

• Peephole optimizations for NULLs in lists and scalar lists

  #23523 opened Jul 31, 2025

• Use new subsignature API in class.c

  #23527 opened Aug 2, 2025

• Add ability to specify assert() calls in embed.fnc

  #23529 opened Aug 2, 2025

• combine PL_strategy_* bools into 1 exported symbol

  #23532 opened Aug 3, 2025

• toke.c dont call libc's memcmp() to test 1 byte in Perl_scan_str()

  #23533 opened Aug 3, 2025

• t/run/todo.t: Add some tests

  #23540 opened Aug 4, 2025

• mktables: Fix Useless use of const in void context

  #23542 opened Aug 5, 2025

• Document assert_(), combine with __ASSERT_; fixup Perl_assert()

  #23543 opened Aug 6, 2025

• Even less cheating in `class.c`

  #23544 opened Aug 6, 2025

• Move fixed tests from t/run/todo to final .t

  #23545 opened Aug 6, 2025

• todo test for GH 5835 (local($^W) does not work correctly)

  #23546 opened Aug 6, 2025

29 Issues closed by 13 people

• patch File::Path with CVE-2017-6512 fix in perl 526

  #16144 closed Aug 6, 2025

• New compilation warnings in blead (-Wdeprecated-declarations)

  #17144 closed Aug 6, 2025

• Can't turn off "does not map to Unicode" warnings

  #15489 closed Aug 6, 2025

• Suboptimal handling of TODO-ed tests

  #22863 closed Aug 5, 2025

• Scalar-List-Utils: inconsistent versions (1.68_01 vs. 1.69)

  #23432 closed Aug 4, 2025

• building Perl 5.42.0 fails on Windows with `USE_ITHREADS=undef` configuration

  #23443 closed Aug 4, 2025

• illegal anon sub coredump

  #5959 closed Aug 4, 2025

• new <<>> operator deparses the same as <>

  #14615 closed Aug 3, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks HTML::Parser

  #23521 closed Aug 2, 2025

• Build error when cross-compiling: implicit declaration of function 'memrchr'

  #23528 closed Aug 2, 2025

• Issues with Embperl/Zembperl on Ubuntu 24.04 – library not found and missing module

  #23524 closed Aug 1, 2025

• File::stat dies on path objects with overloaded stringification

  #23507 closed Aug 1, 2025

• Segfault instead of compilation error in new class syntax with apply_field_attribute reader/writer

  #23511 closed Jul 31, 2025

• GitHub Actions: Support "windows-2022" runner image

  #21112 closed Jul 31, 2025

• Quantifiers in (?(DEFINE)...)

  #16106 closed Jul 30, 2025

• bad diagnostic for 'catch (my $e)': Can't redeclare "my" in "our"

  #23222 closed Jul 28, 2025

• $^X is not full path when perl is searched in PATH on NetBSD and OpenBSD

  #23484 closed Jul 28, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Unicode::UTF8

  #23474 closed Jul 26, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks JSON::XS

  #23473 closed Jul 26, 2025

• keyword gethostbyname() <= 5.24.0-5.43.1 buffer overflow/heap corruption (update: docs bug)

  #23463 closed Jul 25, 2025

• t/op/signatures.t: one test failing under `make minitest` on threaded builds

  #23469 closed Jul 24, 2025

• locale_table.h: new build-time errors

  #23464 closed Jul 23, 2025

• Perl 5.42 segfault during compilation

  #23405 closed Jul 23, 2025

• [doc] perlapi: documentation for croak_xs_usage has an undefined "diag_listed_as" tag in the example

  #23310 closed Jul 21, 2025

• Musl Libc - Failed to build Perl 5.40.0 ( Cross compilation )

  #23452 closed Jul 19, 2025

• LD Environment Variable Set To Linker Causes "Checking for cc... ld.lld: error: unknown argument '-fstack-protector-strong'"

  #23449 closed Jul 18, 2025

• defined operator not constant folded

  #16266 closed Jul 14, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Imager

  #23407 closed Jul 8, 2025

• [doc] Add (ord) example to map() document

  #23404 closed Jul 6, 2025

17 Issues opened by 10 people

• BBC: Blead Breaks Class::Spiffy

  #23526 opened Aug 1, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Class::Sniff

  #23525 opened Aug 1, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Template::Alloy

  #23522 opened Jul 31, 2025

• Useless use of const in void context in lib/unicore/mktables

  #23520 opened Jul 31, 2025

• Migration to Git Hub closed some tickets that should have been open

  #23517 opened Jul 31, 2025

• [doc] perlmodinstall needs to be updated

  #23516 opened Jul 31, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Test::Inter

  #23505 opened Jul 29, 2025

• BBC: Blead Breaks Devel::Cover

  #23504 opened Jul 29, 2025

• perldb improperly handles blessed coderefs

  #23486 opened Jul 28, 2025

• $^X is not full path when perl is searched in PATH on NetBSD and OpenBSD

  #23483 opened Jul 28, 2025

• [doc] A slight addition to perlclass document: how to call method

  #23453 opened Jul 19, 2025

• Optimise away LIST/ex-LIST trees containing one item

  #23448 opened Jul 17, 2025

• class feature: Anonymous methods can't access fields

  #23446 opened Jul 17, 2025

• [doc] Try/catch are no longer Experimental. Possible clarification in perlsyn

  #23436 opened Jul 13, 2025

• class feature: ADJUST block prevents module_true feature

  #23435 opened Jul 13, 2025

• [doc] Add clarity for "qr//" in "The empty pattern //"

  #23410 opened Jul 7, 2025

• Can POK CONST SVs share buffers for identical strings?

  #23409 opened Jul 7, 2025

54 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 Aug 6, 2025 • 24 new comments

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

  #23358 commented on Jul 7, 2025 • 5 new comments

• SvPV_shrink_to_cur: include space for COW

  #23290 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 1 new comment

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

  #23356 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 1 new comment

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

  #23375 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 1 new comment

• RMG: Simplify the corelist section

  #23401 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 1 new comment

• add a new warning against using \ in qw()

  #23403 commented on Jul 20, 2025 • 1 new comment

• Perl_sv_clear: Assertion `((svtype)((sv)->sv_flags & 0xff)) != (svtype)0xff' failed (perl: sv.c:6537)

  #14630 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23306 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• += and ++ do different things under 'use integer'

  #3564 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• autodoc: Add an Index section

  #22478 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Fix huge inline bloat msvc sv inline h

  #22667 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #22700 commented on Aug 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• sv.h: struct body_details bodies_by_type is unreadable, add more comments

  #22880 commented on Jul 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• pod/perlguts pod/perlhacktips - various updates and new content

  #22881 commented on Jul 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• sv_vcatpvfn_flags: Use utf8_to_uv

  #23083 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• mPUSHn()/mPUSHi()/mPUSHu() convert from slow sv_set() to newSV()+2mor…

  #23148 commented on Jul 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Win32: eliminate the sys_intern fdpid aka w32_fdpid

  #23262 commented on Jul 20, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23265 commented on Jul 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• PerlIO: don't set the error flag when reading on an EAGAIN

  #23314 commented on Jul 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Pass clone parameter to CLONE methods as a UV

  #23325 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Simplify sentence in `perlpacktut.pod`

  #23354 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add additional check for custom array/hash access checking

  #23399 commented on Jul 11, 2025 • 0 new comments

• pp_ref() builtin_pp_reftype(): strlen()+Newx()+memcpy()->100% pre-made COWs

  #23391 commented on Jul 11, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23369 commented on Jul 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23370 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23371 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• SV_CONST() / PL_sv_consts[] API on another planet, immortal HEKs in libperl

  #22872 commented on Jul 8, 2025 • 0 new comments

• BBC: Blead Breaks EV

  #22353 commented on Jul 8, 2025 • 0 new comments

• RFC/WIP replace Perl stack with self allocating/expanding (C-style) stack on Win32

  #13860 commented on Jul 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23037 commented on Jul 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ./configure mis-detects "ar" and hardcodes missing "ar" in Config_heavy.pl

  #17791 commented on Jul 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• arrays @- and @+ are extremely slow on large utf8 strings

  #18786 commented on Jul 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• porting/diag.t treats POD function documentation as code and gets confused

  #23313 commented on Jul 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Consistent I/O function error return values

  #23340 commented on Jul 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add support for AIX openxlc clang compiler

  #23333 commented on Jul 25, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Optimise away empty else {} blocks

  #22053 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Perlguts: Minor queries regarding the "Ref-counted arg stack" documentation

  #21443 commented on Jul 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• localtime(HUGEVAL) reports wrong number in error message

  #21827 commented on Jul 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• SV Arenas have duplicate sized pool slots

  #22665 commented on Jul 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Release current Storable to CPAN (because of new booleans)

  #21753 commented on Jul 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• PerlIO resource leaks on open() and then :pop in :unix and :stdio

  #9406 commented on Jul 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• foreach spuriously autovivifies

  #1196 commented on Jul 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Cloning STDOUT loses encoding

  #15419 commented on Aug 3, 2025 • 0 new comments

• dereferencing result of ternary operator skips autovivification

  #18669 commented on Aug 3, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Consider re-enabling coderef-in-stash optimization

  #23131 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• BBC: Blead breaks FERRENCY/Text-MicroMason-2.23.tar.gz

  #21037 commented on Aug 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• 'Useless use of a constant in void context' is compile-time but not syntax warning

  #14442 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [PATCH] Let X<> within anchorifiable paragraphs be additional anchors.

  #11528 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Assertion failure in Perl_pp_sort/S_POPMARK

  #16865 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [PATCH] t/op/stat.t: skipping -r test is unneeded

  #14836 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [PATCH] sv_grow: performance improvement for short strings

  #14047 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• strptime() missing from POSIX

  #12540 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• eval does not catch die after alarm

  #11969 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments