15 Pull requests merged by 11 people

• 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

4 Pull requests opened by 4 people

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

  #23438 opened Jul 15, 2025

• perlapi: Combine is_safe_syscall, IS_SAFE_SYSCALL

  #23444 opened Jul 17, 2025

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

  #23445 opened Jul 17, 2025

• Apply scalar context to LSLICE and ASLICE more thoroughly

  #23447 opened Jul 17, 2025

3 Issues closed by 3 people

• 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

6 Issues opened by 5 people

• [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

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

  #23443 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

29 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 Jul 13, 2025 • 12 new comments

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

  #23429 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 6 new comments

• Update PL_main_thread on fork() and add more tests

  #23422 commented on Jul 16, 2025 • 3 new comments

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

  #23428 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 2 new comments

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

  #23424 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 2 new comments

• croak_xs_usage pod: remove unnecessary diag_listed_as

  #23312 commented on Jul 17, 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

• Add ability to define a simple implementation in embed.fnc

  #23421 commented on Jul 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23416 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23415 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23411 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23403 commented on Jul 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23371 commented on Jul 17, 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

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

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

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

  #23367 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23356 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Simplify sentence in `perlpacktut.pod`

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

• Pass clone parameter to CLONE methods as a UV

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

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

  #23322 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• UCD.pm: Add check for parameter type

  #23301 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

• sv.c: make PUSH_EXTEND_MORTAL__SV_C an inline function

  #23234 commented on Jul 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

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

• sv_vcatpvfn_flags: Use utf8_to_uv

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

• regmatch: Use new utf8_to_uv

  #22834 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #18786 commented on Jul 19, 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

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

  #23306 commented on Jul 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #23432 commented on Jul 14, 2025 • 0 new comments