Changes/perl5.36

Perl 5.36

Summary

A new perl 5.36 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.36 will be released in May 20th 2022. See 5.36.0 perldelta for more details about new release. https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.35.11/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Owner

• Name: Jitka Plesníková
• Email: <jplesnik@redhat.com>
• Name: Michal Josef Špaček
• Email: <mspacek@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 37
• Last updated: 2022-04-28
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Items to Be Done

• Get dedicated build-root from rel-engs (f37-perl)
• Upstream to release Perl 5.34
• Define perl_bootstrap in perl-srpm-macros
• Rebase perl to 5.36.0
• Rebuild dual-lived packages (otherwise dnf recommends --skip-broken and fails)
• Rebuild packages needed for minimal build-root
• Rebuild packages needed for building source packages from git repository
• Rebuild other packages: Use Fedora::Rebuild dependency solver
• Undefine perl_bootstrap
• Rebuild packages having perl_bootstrap condition in spec file (127 packages)
• Rebuild all updated packages
• Final lists of results
• Merge dedicated build-root to rawhide and remove the dedicated one by rel-engs
• Synchronize packages upgraded in f37 build root
• Rebuild Perl packages: 0 of 3249 done (0.00%)

Detailed Description

New perl is released every year and updates containing mainly bug fixes follow during the year. The 5.36.0 version is stable release this year.

Benefit to Fedora

Up-to-date and latest perl release will be delivered to Fedora users.

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with Objectives:

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)