Raku Repositories Report

Listed below are the 50 most recently updated issues on GitHub for a selection of core Raku repositories.

A project for Raku Advent Calendar 2024.

Report generated 2025-06-25T10:16:03.524769Z via cron.

rakudo/rakudo

Most recent issues (show/hide)

Blin 2025.06, round 1

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6.e Release Checklist

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Using a subset as a type sets the *base* type as default in v6.e.PREVIEW

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`my class A { has $.a where * > 0 }` does not compile in 6.e

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Token `return` acts as a `return` statement in 6.e

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keys `:k` with shaped arrays

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`::('Exception').gist` throws in v6.e.PREVIEW

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`$CALLER::foo` allows access to caller's `my $foo` in 6.e

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\() ~~ Signature.new segfaults

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$.foo silently ignores assignments if not specified as "is rw"

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"make install" fails under RAKUDO_RAKUAST=1

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Release 6.e

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RakuAST: `*>>.foo` producing incorrect (Q)AST

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Unicode normalization forms (NFD, NFC, NFKD, NFKC) in Raku do not decompose precomposed characters according to Unicode standard

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Nightly gets different results when doing zef install on Pod::To::HTML

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regex array interpolation sometimes fails to match

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Creating a lot of PseudoHashes in a loop sometimes hangs

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grep adding structure to result

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Parser fails to parse certain Unicode characters

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Incorrect Error: BEGIN time evaluation only supported for simple constructs so far

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REPL int on different lines causing bytecode validation errors

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EVAL in a constant stumbling over missing outer $_

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Inconsistent handling of Routine.wrap with differing Signatures

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RakuAST: lexical token and <.a> errors out in weird way

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Caller-$/-setting is too invasive

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Parsing issue with `(require SomeModule)` expression

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Promise.andthen and Promise.orelse could provide the .result or .cause directly.

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Providing a test filter to the IO::Path dir method makes the . and .. directories eligible to be returned

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RakuAST: spurious sigspace worry

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DateTime's built-in methods disregarding timezone

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RakuAST: bogus worry "Useless use of ==> in sink context"

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Very bad performance of .combinations

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Unable to build 2025.04 on Alpine Linux

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Add local translations

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"Triangular comma" metaoperator [\,] unexpectedly puts first element inside a list

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Turn off option *rakudoc* until it actually works

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sub MAIN( $a ) { } with no args errors instead of displaying usage

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Release - not testing Inline::Perl5

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Success in enum resolution during &MAIN invocation depends on declaration scope of the enum.

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Crash while generating profiling data.

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submethod can't access attributes, even if it's never called.

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Object hashes are created with `Any` instead of `Mu` as default 'of' type

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Parametrized roles and mixins are slow

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Hang while running https://github.com/antononcube/Raku-Text-SubParsers tests

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.min and .max don't do a Schwartzian transform

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.assuming doesn't correctly handle parameters with a default value

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"assuming" dies on :D smileys

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Mixing an anonymous role with a closure in parallel causes an error

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issues with wrong release date in release docs/tools

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Auto collect MacOS editions

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raku/doc

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PromiseStatus & FileChangeEvent

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Description of 'Pod::Defn' is misleading

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Test internal modules

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remove reference to long gone opaquepointer

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IO::Path method 'extension', argument '$subst' needs an example

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=config discussion from S26 is missing

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checklist for 2025.05

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checklist for 2025.04

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checklist for 2025.03

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checklist for 2025.02

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checklist for 2025.01

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checklist for 2024.12

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checklist 2024.10

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checklist for 2024.09

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checklist for 2024.08

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?DISTRIBUTION only works in a module

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Pod6 node type 'Pod::Block::Para' is not documented

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Pod6 node type 'Pod::Config' is not documented

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RakuDoc V1 description can be improved

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https://docs.raku.org/type/CX/Done

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`IO::Path::succ()` should not suggest example with potential pitfall.

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Usage of ecosystem

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Add a test to verify the glossary is sorted

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Language/temporal says Instant is Dateish

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checklist for 2024.07

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Not Documented: DateTime's two julian-date methods silently discard timezone data

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doc for DateTime.julian-date doesn't mention that it silently discards timezone info in the DateTime object

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Ensure the docs mention there is no way in Raku core to convert julian-date to local time, so use DateTime::Julian

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docs for methods mm-dd-yyyy and dd-mm-yyyy both inappropriately mention ISO8601

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Document GLOBAL, CALLER, LEXICAL, etc

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Module / Package documentation is structured suboptimally

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Add note that using a handle to the Proc object inside a 'dies-ok{}' test will not capture an Exception by an external program

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Need better description of converting between hexadecimal, decimal, and octal numbers

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Missing link to control exceptions from phasers.

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In Real documentation floor and ceiling descriptions wrong way round

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heading 'routine' definition 'method'

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Need a simple example of inverting @a to a Hash by reversing its keys and values

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Remove HTTP::UserAgent

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No mention of how to interact with containers in docs for `...`

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Improper X<> in =head

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Raku™ -> Raku®

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bad design link

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Add Rakudoc to Main Site Pages

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Demonstrate how succeed can return a value

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Containers versus values in a capture trap

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Document REPL history variables?

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Run and Edit examples

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Concurrency page lists wrong default for ThreadPoolScheduler default threads

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Tighten Up Augment Example

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Add Introduction section to docs

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raku/doc-website

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Website rebuild

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code highlighting issue on e.g. $tuple<>, angle brackets differ in color

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Syntax highlighting - eyes needed

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serving the website using Cro rather than Caddy

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Robots.txt impacting search results

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Is the announcement page useful??

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proof of concept up and running

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returning to 'credits'

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Variables headings missing

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Entire site is unreadable/unusable on mobile browsers

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Doc Generation Issue with Formatting Tags

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How much to include in a Composite?

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Issues with popup - contrast, usability, history

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replacing the way Typegraphs are generated

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New guidance on trademark

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Error page

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Extraneous text on generated page.

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Sentence fragments: 'See primary documentation...'

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Add install graph-viz to install instructions

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Pod documentation that use :allow< > does not highlight as Raku code but as Pod

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Incorrect syntax highlighting

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Some coloring for syntax is weird

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Inconsistent font size in code samples

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Cannot find any information on using the Build.rakumod module

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Anchors being generated in the wrong place

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Error report incorrectly errors on https://docs.raku.org/type/Cool#typegraphrelations

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error report external link check is disabled

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error report doesn't indicate when it was run

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JS error

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Exact match in search should be prioritized.

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Generate sqlite output from RakuDoc source input

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How much information should be in Table of contents?

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E-Book design - initial design

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Code example boxes narrowed by descriptor

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Search sidebar UI bug

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Reducing Build time from 13min to 3min

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Dark mode does not auto switch

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searching for slurp isn't great

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Add modification data for source files

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Documentation Bug: Heading link doesn't work

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add redirect for /language/independent-routine

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Search methods through class hierarchy

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Searching for "raku docs"

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no popup

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In-page search broken on mac (turn off shortcuts?)

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Alert mechanism

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epub file fails validation

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add reset to default on search options popup

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RAKUDO_OPT does not appear to be searchable

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Change the defaults on search?

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raku/nqp

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nqp-2025.03 FTBFS on Musl libc

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2024.08 is broken now: NQPCORE.setting fails to build

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[JVM] nqp::null as value for class attribute is changed to NQPMu after serialization+deserialization

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Failing to build javascript backend

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`nqp::isnum` returns 0 for everything Rakudo considers a `Num`

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NQP README instructions unclear

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nqp::iterator on lists is slower than manually indexing into lists

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question / offer: build GitHub workflow based NQP releases

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Rakudo's install-dist.p6 fails with

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[JVM] Using back-references with aliases dies with internal error

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Unhandled exception: lang-call cannot invoke object of type 'VMNull' belonging to no language

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CI pipeline is broken

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$brackets definition in HLL::Grammar has duplicate bracket pairs

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063-slurp test file

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jvm: unhandled exception

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Building inside a chroot fails with "Unhandled exception: All positional args must appear first"

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Compilation fails on macOS 13

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[2022.12/arm64] segmentation fault during Creating stage 2 NQP

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[JVM] Several opcodes for string (e.g. chars, substr*) work on Java's chars (UTF-16) instead of graphemes

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Implement NFG on JVM

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There's still a good deal of `perl6` in this repo

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NQP grammar doesn't seem to work on its own

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t/nqp/19-file-ops.t failure in pre-2016.01

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Flagged as vulnerable

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try and die can cause infinite loop under some rare condition

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Random failures of t/concurrency/01-thread.t

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Can't build against externally-built moar backend (with patch)

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need simple examples of using QAST inside nqp programs

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Parse error when a '<.panic(' ending '>' is moved to the next line

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NQP sometimes throws a segmentation fault at build time

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No notification by any IRC bot when an issue is filed

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Test

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Bunch of things undocumented

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Opcode test coverage needs improving

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Issues with CI

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Configure appveyor to test nqp builds on windows

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nqp lacks automated testing on OSX environment

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Local '__lowered_lex....' already declared when compiling NQP

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implement nqp::nativecallglobal for jvm

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hllboolfor op SEGVs

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Can't override class's Numeric

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[JVM] nqp::attrinited does not work for natives

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Encoding a string as utf16 to buffer containing 8 bit integers is broken on the JVM

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Inconsistent signature for &MAIN

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There is no way to distinguish a non-existing symbol from one bound to VMnull

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Build fails on MoarVM: "Cannot find method 'new' on object of type Archetypes"

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[JVM] Java limit for method code size can be hit by defining large hashes

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Please include nqp-configure in the release tarballs

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nqp::split should allow for boxing type

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test

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moarvm/moarvm

Most recent issues (show/hide)

libtommath CVE

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Build failure on Alpine due to mimalloc update

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Support TCP half-closed in Async sockets

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Segfault in MVM_spesh_log_return_type

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Segfault, probably spesh related

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MoarVM Panic - OO - CONTROL Phaser

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Reliable MoarVM panic in rakuast branch: Heap corruption detected

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MoarVM panic: Internal error: invalid thread ID <some-random-ID> in GC work pass

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SEGV during a --profile

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ABRT when using --full-cleanup

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MoarVM panic when profiling an EVAL that fails

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SEGV when attempting to --profile-stage=optimize the Rakudo build

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No MoarVM syscall with name 'file-stat'

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MoarVM panics on arrays with bigint indices

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2025.01 tarball from releases is broken and does not extract: `gnutar: Archive value is out of time_t range`

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The version scheme of the extracted folder from release artifact is differ

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MoarVM panic with CONTROL block

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uv.lib(util.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime

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Builds of master are failing lately when building the nightly container

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tools/release.sh using Perl

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2024.08 release: MoarVM fails to compile NQP on powerpc

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Frequent heap corruption

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gh release workflow is broken

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segmentation fault on parallel code

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Segmentation Fault in Rakudo While Running Project w/ Cro and DB::MySQL

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Internals MoarVM Error messages are LTA

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MoarVM panic: Internal error

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(should have been for rakudo instead ? , sorry ) make package asks for install-dist.p6, rename from *.raku may have not been working correctly,

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Spesh issue when `.gist`ing a `Seq`

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$*IN.close breaks shell/run on macOS

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Expression JIT maybe missing GC check at backbranch

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Intermittent failure when running S17-supply/return-in-tap.t

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MSVC builds broken in Windows 11 SDK 10.0.26100.0 due to NAN / INFINITY no longer being compile-time constant

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Should the header files have include guards?

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Meson build system

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Possible CVE in third party

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Some sort of SPESH issue

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Segmentation Fault in rakudo 2016.08.1-55-gb1c444f built on MoarVM version 2016.08

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Numification fails with non-ascii strings.

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VS2015 jitbug - stack overflow when building rakudo CORE.setting

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SEGV due to spesh logging?

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perl6 native call libgsl segmentation fault

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JIT issue with new version of .flat

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Bundled `libuv`-related bug: `fs.c: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'int (const uv__dirent_t *)' (aka 'int (const struct dirent *)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(struct dirent *)'`

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`return` in `LEAVE` misses handler in directly surounding scope

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Build system inserts CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS too early

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AOT/Native-image support

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Blocking on `ConcBlockingQueue` blocks signals

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Memory Leaks in Termux

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macOS only: shell/run/qqx return no output on moarvm 2022.04 and later when called inside MAIN

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