Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 3-December 9, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics this week include: security notice: Storable security notice: Locale::Maketext Does Unicode mandate a collation order? a job for someone? SvREFCNT_dec_NN() CERT Perl Secure Coding Standard security notice: Storable Ricardo Signes published a security notice about the Storable
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 26-December 2, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics this week include: rand() on Windows only uses 15 bits of entropy RFC: Removing several undocumented functions from the Perl core 5.18 VT in \s Comment period extended for Unicode’s changing some common characters from Punctuation to
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 19-November 25, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Sorry I didn’t publish a summary last week. Although there was list traffic I didn’t find any messages I wanted to summarize. This week’s topics include: perl 5.17.6 is now available! On deprecating unescaped literal left brace Parrot
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 5-November 11, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. This week’s topics are: Perl 5.12.5 is now available no easy link to quick hacking recipe? -DNO_TAINT_SUPPORT in blead Perl 5.12.5 is now available Dominic Hargreaves announced that perl 5.12.5 is now available on a CPAN mirror near
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 29-November 4, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. This week’s topics are: perl-5.16.2 is now available perl-5.12.5 RC1 is now available What happened to the whole “small core” idea? Eliminating the “rehash” mechanism for 5.18 benchmarking Murmurhash3 vs One-At-A-Time as perl’s hash function perl-5.16.2 is now
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 22-October 28, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. I’d hoped to get this published earlier, but it didn’t happen. In the US, we just switched back to “standard” time on Saturday. Rah, rah energy savings, but toddlers don’t adapt well to legalistic time changes, so I
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 15-October 21, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Let’s get to this week’s topics. Perl 5.17.5 is now available Timely destruction guarantees COW status perl5db refactoring hash assignment fixes and speedup are ready for review Pull request CPAN-1.99_51 sub signatures status and performance No-taint support in
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 7-October 13, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Sorry this week’s summary was delayed, I just ran out of tuits this past weekend. Let’s get right to the topics this week: Perl 5.14.3 is now available maint-5.12, maint-5.14, and CVE-2012-5195 perl 5.16.2 cometh Stupid COW benchmarks
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 1-October 6, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic on the perl5-porters email list. I was in San Francisco this past week at RICON 2012, a conference about distributed systems for developers. It was organized by Basho who wrote and support the “NoSQL” Riak data store. I was there mostly in my
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: September 24-September 30, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic on the perl5-porters email list. In case you missed hearing about it, don’t forget to sign up for Gabor Szabo’s Perl Maven programming contest. This week’s dusty thread is from the week of July 30, 2012. Pumpking Ricardo Signes was looking for volunteer(s)