Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026
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The organizers have been working behind the scenes since last September,and today Im happy to announce that the 16th Perl Toolchain Summit willbe held in Vienna, Austria, from Thursday April 23rd till Sunday April26th, 2026.This post is brought to you by Simplelists, a group email andmailing list service provider, and a recurring sponsor of the PerlToolchain Summit.
Started in 2008 as the Perl QA Hackathon in Oslo, the Perl ToolchainSummit is an annual event that brings together the key developersworking on the Perl toolchain. Each year (except for 2020-2022), theevent moves from country to country all over Europe, organised by localteams of volunteers. The surplus money from previous summits helps fundthe next one.Since 2023, the organizing team is formally split between a globalteam and a local team (although this setup has been informallyused before).The global team is made up of veteran PTS organizers, who deal withinvitations, finding sponsors, paying bills and communications. They areLaurent Boivin (ELBEHO), PhilippeBruhat (BOOK), Thibault Duponchelle(CONTRA), Tina Mller(TINITA) and Breno de Oliveira(GARU), supported by Les Mongueursde Perls bank account.The local team members for this year have organized several events inVienna (including the Perl QA Hackathon 2010!) and deal with finding thevenue, the hotel, the catering and welcoming our attendees in Vienna inApril. They are Alexander Hartmaier(ABRAXXA), Thomas Klausner(DOMM), Maro Kollr(MAROS), Michael Krll and HelmutWollmersdorfer (WOLLMERS).The developers who maintain CPAN and associated tools and services areall volunteers, scattered across the globe. This event is the one timein the year when they can get together.The summit provides dedicated time to work on the critical systems andtools, with all the right people in the same room. The attendees hammerout solutions to thorny problems and discuss new ideas to keep thetoolchain moving forward. This year, about 40 people have been invited,with 35 participants expected to join us in Vienna.If you want to find out more about the work being done at the ToolchainSummit, and hear the teams and people involved, you can listen toseveral episodes of The Underbar podcast,which were recorded during the 2025 edition in Leipzig, Germany:Given the important nature of the attendees work and their volunteerstatus, we try to pay for most expenses (travel, lodging, food, etc.)through sponsorship. If youre interested in helping sponsor the summit,please get in touch with the global team atpts2026@perltoolchainsummit.org.Simplelists has been sponsoring the Perl Toolchain Summit for severalyears now. We are very grateful for their continued support.Simplelists is proud to sponsor the 2026 Perl Toolchain Summit, as Perlforms the core of our technology stack. We are grateful that we can relyon the robust and comprehensive Perl ecosystem, from the core of Perlitself to a whole myriad of CPAN modules. We are glad that the PTScontinues its unsung work, ensuring that Simplelists can continue torely on these many tools.
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DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
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For the second consecutive year, The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) isoverjoyed to announce a donation of USD 25,000 fromDuckDuckGo.DuckDuckGo has demonstrated how Perl and its ecosystem can deliver power andscale to drive the DuckDuckGo core systems, plug-in framework and InstantAnswers. The Foundation is grateful that DuckDuckGo recognises the importanceof Perl, and for their generous funding support for a second year throughtheir charitable donations programme. Stuart J Mackintosh, President of The Perl and Raku FoundationLast years donation of USD 25,000 fromDuckDuckGowas instrumental in helping to fund the foundations Core Perl Maintenance Fundand this years donation will help to fund more of the same crucial work thatkeeps the Perl language moving forward.
Paul LeoNerd Evans is one of thedevelopers who gets regular funding from the Perl Core Maintenance Fund. Hereis a short list of just some of the many contributions which Paul has made tocore Perl as part of the maintenance fund work:
- The builtin module (5.36), makingavailable many new useful language-level utilities that were previouslyloaded from modules like Scalar::Util
- The complete featureclass system(5.38), adding proper object-orientation syntax and abilities
- Lexical method support (5.42), adding
my method andthe ->&method invocation syntax for better object encapsulation - Stabilising some of the recent experiments - signatures (5.36),try/catch (5.40), foreach on multiple vars (5.40)
- Ability to use the //= and ||= operators in signatures (5.38),performance improvements and named parameters (upcoming in nextrelease)
- The new any andall keywords (5.42)
We look forward to many more innovative contributions from Paul over the comingyear.While TPRF never takes continued support for granted, when it does arrive, itallows the foundation to plan for the future with much greater confidence.Multi-year partnerships with our sponsors allow us to continue to prioritizeimportant work, knowing that we will have the runway that we need to fund thework which helps to sustain the Perl Language and its associated communities.For more information on how to become a sponsor, please contact:olaf@perlfoundation.org
"Fireworks" by colink. is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
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Today The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce a donation of USD10,000 from Geizhals Preisvergleich. This gift helps tosecure the future of The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.Perl has been an integral part of our product price comparison platformfrom the start of the company 25 years ago. Supporting the Perl 5 CoreMaintenance Fund means supporting both present and future of asubstantial pillar of Modern Open Source Computing, for us and othercurrent or prospective users. – Michael Krll of Geizhals PreisvergleichGeizhals is not only providing core funding for the Perl ecosystem, but alsosupporting developers, actively contributing to European conferences, andemploying Perl coders. Their interest in the strategic maintenance anddevelopment of Perl and CPAN is of great value to us all, and theirinvestment is very much appreciated. – Stuart J Mackintosh, President of The Perl and Raku FoundationBut who exactly is Geizhals, and why does their support matter so much to thePerl community?Geizhals Preisvergleich began in July of 1997 as a hobby projectand yes,“Geizhals” literally translates to “skinflint” in English (they even operateskinflint.co.uk for UK users!). From those humblebeginnings, they’ve leveraged the power of Perl to scale up to serving 4.3million monthly users. With Perl being a keypart of their infrastructure, they have generously decided to support the Perl5 Core Maintenance Fund.While many of us know about the Core Maintenance Fund, the specific problems itaddresses often remain invisible to users. I reached out to the maintainerswhose work is supported by this fund. This is what core maintainer Tony Cookhad to say:My work tends to be little things, I review other people’s work which I thinkimproves quality and velocity, and fix more minor issues, some examples wouldbe:- a fix to signal handling where perl could crash where an external librarycreated threads (#22487)
- fix a segmentation fault in smartmatch against a sub if the sub exited via aloop exit op (such as last)(#16608)
- fixed a bug where a regexp warning could leak memory.
- prevent a confusing undefined warning message when accessing a subparameter that was placeholder for a hash element indexed by anundef key (#22423)
What Tony has highlighted are the kinds of bug fixes which collectively help toensure that Perl remains stable, secure and reliable for the many organisationsand individuals who depend on it.With organizations like Geizhals Preisvergleich funding the work which Tony andothers put into maintaining the Perl 5 core, we can work together to ensure thatthe Perl core continues to receive the maintenance which it deserves, for manyyears to come. Whether you’re a startup using Perl for rapid prototyping or anenterprise running mission-critical systems, your support helps ensure Perlremains reliable for everyone. Please join us on this journey.For more information on how to become a sponsor, please contact:olaf@perlfoundation.org
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Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, Part 2
 Perl 5 has come a long way in the past few years. The newest version, Perl 5.10, added several new features to make your programs shorter, easier to maintain, easier to write, and more powerful. Here's how to start using files and strings in modern Perl.
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