Paul writes: 1 Final merge of "Value Magic" for Magic-v2 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24508 2 BBC fallout of $self argument parsing that broke XS::Parse::Sublike https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24807 https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/XS-Parse-Sublike-0.42 1 Continue work on the attributes-v2 branch. https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/attributes-v2 3 PrePPC PPC document writing on "improving @INC dirs" https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2026/09/msg271201.html 4 PrePPC discussions and design work on match/case syntax https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2026/09/msg271215.html https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2026/09/msg271269.html 5 BBC fallout from PPC0030 that broke Syntax::Operator::Equ, XS::Parse::Infix, Syntax::Operator::In

Dave writes: This month I finished off documenting the regex engine's super-linear cache, then turned my attention to improving and modernising the cache code now that I better understood the underlying principles. In particular, the cache is now per-quantifier and non-regular things like are handled better. Summary: 1:53 GH #24845 Crash when using sort and Package::Stash's list_all_symbols 6:12 document regex super-linear cache 34:37 improve regex super-linear cache Total: 42:42

Tony writes: 2026/09/01 Tuesday 0.42 #24769 review, review discussion, research and approve 0.23 #24666 review updates and approve 0.20 #24764 review and approve 1.20 #24783 review, research, testing and comment 0.37 #24777 what else can I test here? undraft it 0.33 debugging build detection: make PR 24784 2.75 2026/09/02 Wednesday 1.03 #24784 review discussion and comment 0.17 #24765 research, follow-up

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Paul writes: 1= Investigation and fix of GH 24610 "method does not warn of shadowed $self variable" https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24610 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24738 1 Adding usetaint option to ./Configure https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24640 1.5 New Socket version; fix unit tests for "ftp" service, add gai_strerror https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Socket-2.043 3 Bugfix for GH 24705 "newSVsv loses taint marking on copied IVs and NVs" https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24705 1.5 Final rebase and merge of value magic-v2

Tony writes: 2026/08/03 Monday 0.43 #24557 review some more and comments 0.60 #24643 review and comments 0.17 #24629 review and approve 0.18 #24628 review and approve 0.88 #22659 try to review, comments 0.97 #24651 review, testing and comment 0.18 #24651 review updates and approve 0.87 #24616 work on a fix testing, push for CI 0.50 investigate possible dXSTARG/constant folding issue

Dave writes: This month I worked on a few miscellaneous items, and started to document for the regex engine's super-linear cache, which it turns out no one really understands any more Summary: 1:45 GH #24763 Stale numeric value in scalar still used after string modification 18:29 document regex super-linear cache 2:44 review PR #24557: Add MAYBE modifier to ExtUtils::ParseXS 1:12 tweak perlxs.pod Total: 24:10

Paul writes: July was mostly spent finishing off a commercial contract to get Magic-v2 and value magic in, so I didn't have much time for other perl-related matters. We did at least get 5.44 out the door 3 Perl 5.45.1 release process 4 PSC meetings arranging to get 5.44 out the door 1.5 Github code reviews, mostly related to the above Total: 8.5 hours Now that both 5.44 and Magic-v2

Tony writes: 2026/07/01 Wednesday 0.38 #23918 check A::H::XS fix 0.92 build as C++ thread 1.35 #23918 more ppport 1.03 #23918 more ppport 3.68 2026/07/02 Thursday 0.08 #24518 check CI results after test merge and re-run failed jobs 0.37 #24459 review updates and comment 0.83 #23918 more ppport 1.45 #23918 more ppport 2.73 2026/07/06 Monday 0.35 #24511 comment

Dave writes: This month was rather sparse, just working on a few miscellaneous tickets. Summary 1:02 GH #24258 dist/threads/t/free.t: Rare test failure in debugging build on FreeBSD 0:49 GH #24598 BBC: Blead Breaks Clownfish 1:59 GH #24614 BBC: Blead Breaks Text::Md2Inao 2:05 make regex super-linear-cache 64-bit 0:19 review PR #24412: keep and reuse a spare *offs buffer Total: 6:14

Dave writes: Last month was mainly spent fixing a performance regression in the regex engine on some long strings, whereby anchored patterns and which contained both a fixed and floating substring would sometimes prefer to check whole of the long string for the presence of "floating" rather than do a quick check and reject if "fixed" is isn't at the expected offset. I also did some tweaking of the

Tony writes: 2026/06/01 Monday 3.15 security list #148 1.67 security list #148 4.82 2026/06/02 Tuesday 0.87 atomic stuff on list 0.62 #24447 review discussion, ci results and comment 0.20 #24440 review 0.48 #24440 more review, simple testing and comment 1.17 #24451 review and comment 3.34 2026/06/03 Wednesday 0.27 #24451 review updates 0.27 2026/06/04 Thursday 1.05 #24451 more review,

Paul writes: With no immediate 5.44 out the door, I instead managed to find a bunch of time to get a number of smaller things sorted: 7 av_splice_simple https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24451 2 Perl 5.43.11 release https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/perl-5.43.11 0.5 Investigate map EXPR vs BLOCK performance https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24468 5 API type checking https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24469 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24470 1 PPC thoughts about role method signatures ppc discussion #91 1 Class segfault bugfix https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24518 1

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Paul writes: May is always a quiet month for me because I my big stage event to look after, but I got a few things done: 4 Experimentation in Object::Pad's version of how to fix the "late added fields" bug https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24393 1 Fix a couple of integer overflow bugs relating to security reports 3 Begin work on the av_splice API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24451 Total: 8 hours June's focus is getting