Perl 5.26.x Included in -Current
Next Slackware release will jump from perl 5.22 to 5.26, which is a big improvements. You can see the changes in perl 5.24 delta and perl 5.26 delta. One of the big changes is considered a security improvements, but as always, security changes means there wil be some changes need (ie. it breaks things). It's the removal of "." in @INC. It was a very convenience feature, but also it posses some security risk if not used properly, so upstream decided to remove it by default, BUT they provided solutions for those affected.
As we are preparing for the next development cycle while monitoring the changes in -current, Matteo Bernardini had made a note on his blog about these changes. If you are running -current and some of your scripts broke after the latest update, you can try his solutions to rebuild all Perl scripts with the solution.
Besides Perl update, we also have other updates, such as kernels, vte, curl, libinput, xorg-server, p11-kit, vim/gvim, gtk3, openjpeg, imagemagick, librsvg, libmtp, ntp, cmake, python3, cups-filters, and ghostscript.
Since Perl update is also on my wishlist, it's now down to 3 left, KDE 5, PHP 7.1, and OpenSSL 1.1. Hopefully they are approved for this cycle.
As we are preparing for the next development cycle while monitoring the changes in -current, Matteo Bernardini had made a note on his blog about these changes. If you are running -current and some of your scripts broke after the latest update, you can try his solutions to rebuild all Perl scripts with the solution.
Besides Perl update, we also have other updates, such as kernels, vte, curl, libinput, xorg-server, p11-kit, vim/gvim, gtk3, openjpeg, imagemagick, librsvg, libmtp, ntp, cmake, python3, cups-filters, and ghostscript.
Since Perl update is also on my wishlist, it's now down to 3 left, KDE 5, PHP 7.1, and OpenSSL 1.1. Hopefully they are approved for this cycle.