Yesterday, Jesse Vincent announced the release of Perl 5.12.0. This is an exciting time for Perl 5 with development switching from feature-driven releases to time-based ones. You can download this release from http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0/ or your local CPAN mirror. A complete list of the changes can be found in perl5120delta. We would like to thank Jesse and the development team for all their hard work and we look forward to seeing

During March Dave Mitchell started working on the "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. As requested he has been posting weekly reports to the p5p "mailing list":http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and has provided a monthly summary report for posting here. Dave Mitchell writes: A rough summary of activity in March: first, I tagged all new/open tickets with severity medium with one or more types At the same time, I closed any of those tickets

TPF is proud to announce the completion of Gerard Goossen grant. As Gerard sent a big report, please check the complete report on the extended new page. I would like to thank you both Gerard for completing the grant, and Jeff Horwitz for managing it. Below are my results of the "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a Abstract Syntax Tree generation and a code generation step" grant.

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is searching for Grant Managers GM are volunteers that help the interaction between TPF Grantees and TPF GC. GM are assigned to a set of grantees, and GM are responsible for poking Grantees from time to time asking for progress reports, and publishing them on this blog. They are also responsible for dispatch Grantees payments together with TPF Treasurer. If you might be interested in

Today is the last day to "submit a talk proposal for YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk in Columbus, Ohio.

Leon Timmermans writes: As you may have noticed I've been out of the running for some time but I'm back at the project now for a few weeks and things seem to be going pretty ok. Here's an overview of where I'm currently standing. Documentation: Right now this is where I think most work remains. I've been working on it recently, and will continue doing that in the next couple

Ricardo has now been working on his grant for nearly four weeks. Of the nine inch-stones included in the original proposal, five are complete One has had work done against it, but as more input has been gathered on how to proceed, it's become clear that the rest of this work will be done outside the scope of the grant. Two goals remain to be done, as does the user's

The time has come for the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue! Entries can be submitted now through June 1st 2010 to the TPF conferences group: tpf-conferences perl org. We hope to announce the winners at "this year's YAPC::NA in Columbus, Ohio":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/. Are you ready to get started? First off, you will want to "review the bidding details at yapc.org":http://yapc.org/yapcna.html. While there, you'll also find links to

Over the past few months the Grants Committee has been working to improve our grants process. Our main problem is that we have a very low completion rate for grants. In the past couple of years only 25% of the grants awarded by the Grants Committee have been completed. Not surprisingly we feel that the current system should be changed. There are a number of different problems. We have been

The response to the call for paper for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010 has been excellent so far; however, it is quickly drawing to a close. You have one week left to "submit your talk":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk for YAPC::NA 2010!

At our recent Board meeting Jim Brandt stepped down as President and Kurt DeMaagd stepped down as Treasurer. We would like to thank Jim and Kurt for all their hard work. Jim became President in July 2009 after holding the post of Vice-President and will continue to serve as a Director on the Board. Kurt has been Treasurer of TPF since it was created in September 2000. This is a

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster's Hague Grant application for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html#comments has been accepted. Jonathan Worthington has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

I am delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/ is a program that offers stipends to student developers for writing code for open source software projects. Last year we had nine projects accepted and we would love to have more this year. "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ is our chief organizer and he is looking for "mentors":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc_mentors

Ricardo began work on his grant at the beginning of the month and has made steady progress, completing the first two deliverables and has begun writing core tests, which should be done over the next few weeks. Has published status updates every few days so far and plans to continue doing so.

While TPF grant program has as its main goal the motivation of Perl users to perform new and challenging projects for the Perl Community, sometimes it fails. Fortunately it doesn't happen with all grantees and all the time. This time I am closing two grants from Vadim Konovalov: Tcl/Tk Access in Rakudo and Perl Cross-Compilation for WinCE and Linux We, at TPF, know that Vadim did some work on both