akhuettel

title
Happy New Year 2021; 2020 in retrospect

Happy New Year 2021! Due to the COVID pandemic, 2020 was a year unlike any other, and this has also impacted many open source projects. Nevertheless, at Gentoo we have made some great strides forward. While we now start into 2021 with fresh energy (and maybe soon antibodies), let's also take a look back. We're happy to share with our community the most exciting news of the past 12 months -- including numbers on Gentoo activity, our new developers, and featured changes and improvements!

akhuettel

Title: Perl 5.26 Unmasking Warning [affects all users]
To:  gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

We're finally at a point where we're nearing the unmasking[1] of Perl 5.26 and making it visible to ~arch users, and a
"news item" on this matter will appear shortly.

Due to a collection of various problems faced in this version, extensive amounts of work has been needed to simply deliver
an ~arch release that isn't incredibly visibly broken [1][2].

Subsequently, this will require a lot of care from end users who use ~arch versions of Perl, specifically as