cperl-5.24.0-RC5 released

2 bigger changes:
* XSLoader security
* d_attribute_used for -flto support
and:
* Sun cc bug: SvREADONLY_off as statement only
* -Dv: change == max refcnt: to -DC

Author: Reini Urban

META.json

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
          "vxs.inc"
       ]
    },
-   "release_status" : "stable",
+   "release_status" : "testing",
    "resources" : {
       "bugtracker" : {
          "web" : "http://github.com/perl11/cperl/issues"

STATUS.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ on two unrelated core tests (issignaling setpayloadsig + chmod linked in).
 Windows is smoked with MSVC 10 and 12 for 32 and 64bit.
 
 The current release [5.22.3c](https://github.com/perl11/cperl/releases/)
-is stable. cperl-5.24.0 is almost done. See RC4.
+is stable. cperl-5.24.0 is almost done. See [RC5](https://github.com/perl11/cperl/releases/) and [perlcdelta](perlcdelta.html).
 
 All tests pass. CPAN works.
 
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ the patches are all provided in my
 upgrade is seemless.  E.g. Test2 (the new Test::Simple) broke >15
 modules without any patches.
 
+cperl-5.24.0c has [about 24 fixes](perldelta.html#Known-Problems-fixed-elsewhere),
+for problems which are not fixed in perl-5.24.1.
+
 ![Memory usage: perl -e0](cperl-m0.png)
 
 ![Memory usage: with Config_heavy](cperl-p0.png)
@@ -273,6 +276,19 @@ are limited. So they are based on master.
   perl6-like patch which changes `.` to `~` for string concat also,
   but this doesn't accept valid perl5 syntax then. A blocker.
 
+* [feature/gh102-smallhash](https://github.com/perl11/cperl/issues/102)
+
+  [code](http://github.com/perl11/cperl/commits/feature/gh102-smallhash)
+
+  optimize the speed for small hashes.
+
+* [feature/gh176-unexec](https://github.com/perl11/cperl/issues/176)
+
+  [code](http://github.com/perl11/cperl/commits/feature/gh176-unexec)
+
+  compile/dump to native code via emacs unexec, on most platforms.
+
+
 ## A bit more work is needed for
 
 These are major new features, and have no chance to be merged upstream.
@@ -317,4 +333,4 @@ They also revert some wrong decisions p5p already made.
 
 * builtin ffi
 
-2016-07-12 rurban
+2016-07-19 rurban

patchlevel.h

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ hunk.
 #  endif
 static const char * const local_patches[] = {
 	NULL
+        ,"RC5"
 #ifdef PERL_GIT_UNCOMMITTED_CHANGES
 	,"uncommitted-changes"
 #endif

pod/perlhist.pod

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ the strings?).
  rurban    5.22.2c-RC2  2016-May-03
  rurban    5.22.2c      2016-May-09
  rurban    5.22.3c      2016-Jun-03
- rurban    5.22.4c      2016-Jul-05?
+ rurban    5.22.4c      2016-Jul-??
 
  Ricardo   5.24.0-RC1   2016-Apr-13     The 5.24 maintenance track
  Ricardo   5.24.0-RC2   2016-Apr-23
@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ the strings?).
  rurban    5.24.0c-RC2  2016-Jun-17
  rurban    5.24.0c-RC3  2016-Jun-22
  rurban    5.24.0c-RC4  2016-Jul-12
- rurban    5.24.0c      2016-Jul-19
+ rurban    5.24.0c-RC5  2016-Jul-19
+ rurban    5.24.0c      2016-Jul-28
 
  Ricardo   5.25.0       2016-May-09     The 5.25 development track
  Sawyer X  5.25.1       2016-May-20