TPRC hotel pricing and early-bird pricing end at midnight on May 28th. If you haven’t registered and reserved your hotel room, today is the day! The conference schedule is now published. We have a lineup of great speakers! Check it out at https://tprc.us/tprc-2026-gsp/schedule-2/ We are also now accepting submissions for Lightning Talks, which are talks of no more than 5 minutes. They are a great way to participate, and make

It is just over 30 days before the start of The Perl and Raku Conference. Even if you are a procrastinator, it’s time to make your plans to attend! Early bird pricing for registration will end on May 28. Special conference pricing for our block of hotel rooms also expires on May 28. So it is definitely time to get yourself registered and to get your room reserved. Speakers have

Dave writes: Last month I continued looking into race conditions in threads and threads::shared. I have now reached the point where the threads-related test suite can run cleanly under valgrind --tool=helgrind. But there is still an occasional crash in blocks.t when run repeatedly for many hours in parallel on 20 terminals, which I am currently working on. I'm hopeful that once that is fixed, the branch will be ready to

Paul writes: April kept me busy lining up PPC0030 in the hope of putting that into 5.45.1, with a couple of other items of interest. 7.5 Continue progress on PPC0030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24304 1.5 Assisting veesh with the implementation of the optional chaining PPC 1 Managing various PPC documents Total: 10 hours My next focus will be to continue to get these various items ready for merge at the start of

Tony writes: 2026/04/01 Wednesday 0.08 #24335 follow-up 1.18 #24337 try to review 2.03 #24005 work on docs 0.30 #24251 comments 0.12 #24134 re-check and trivial comment 1.35 #24005 more docs 5.06 2026/04/02 Thursday 0.53 ppc/discussion/84 research and comment 0.82 #24308 read updates, try to find clarity with a correction 0.57 #24105 follow-up on #24294 0.58 #24304 review updates

TPRC is proud to announce the post-conference class on Monday, June 29. Steven Lembark is presenting: Teaching AI New Tricks: Perly MCP’s for Claude. The class will be from 9am to 4pm in the Palmetto Room at the Conference Hotel. SHORT DESCRIPTION: MCP definitions are not your mother’s API call. They are natural language descriptions meant for the tool to process and integrate into its own workflow. With proper

There are only 2 days left to submit a talk for TPRC! The cutoff is April 21. If you have an idea for a talk, it is definitely time to get it submitted. We need a wide variety of speakers and topics, so give it a try! Go to https://tprc.us/ to make your submission.

Tony writes: 2026/03/02 Monday 1.55 #24228 follow-up comment, check updates, research and comment 0.75 #24187 review updates, mark comment resolved, research 0.97 #24242 review, research 0.40 #24242 debugging and comment 1.02 #24001 debugging, research, testing 4.69 2026/03/03 Tuesday 0.15 #24242 review dicsussion 0.10 #24211 review discussion and apply to blead 0.53 #24242 comment 0.23 #24239 review and comment

Paul writes: A couple of bugfixes in March, combined with starting to line up a few development ideas to open 5.45 with. 2 Bugfix for field refalias memory leak https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24254 2 Improved field performance https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24265 3 Continue progress on implementing PPC0030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24304 2 Bugfix for deferred class seal https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24326 Total: 9 hours Besides working up to the 5.44 release, my main focus now will be getting

Dave writes: Last month was spent looking into race conditions in threads and threads::shared. I initially started looking at a specific ticket, where I could reproduce a specific crash by running many instances in parallel for several hours. I think I have fixed that specific bug, but that led me to the rabbit hole of dynamic thread-safety checkers such as helgrind, and I am currently plunging down the rabbit