New in 2018.12:
+ Fixes:
+ Fixed infiniloops with some set operators [99d94db4][9f5cc8d1]
+ Fixed regression in handling of `"1"..9` [d92b155c]
+ Fixed use of `Proxy` in a class attribute using
the `Attribute`.`get_value`/`set_value` interface [a5411e45]
+ Fixed semantics of `minpairs`/`maxpairs` (ignore undefined values) [7bf7a2c6]
+ Fixed error on `@a > 2` if `@a` is a native array
+ Fixed error reporting on initializing shaped array with
improperly shaped data [fd216fec]
+ Negative indexes on native arrays are now checked properly [dd2af90c]
+ Fixed use of uninitialized value in `IO::Notification` [83d0056b]
+ Enums can now have private methods mixed in [3c2cfb22]
+ Fixed resource content lookup for `Distribution::Path` [370310b3]
+ Fixed precompilation when cwd gets changed at run time [e2e5cc53]
+ Shared library versions are now ignored on OpenBSD [5603128e]
+ Many improvements to the JS backend [1865db0d][fdd249a3][194c84b9]
[1dd59f10][52c2af5d][8b13655c][2869a48b][cf5432ae][758caa89]
[e0b943d0][a759f9d7]
+ Various improvements to produced messages [869b9e58][abfb9a40]
[79824db5][55d08c8f][24c8e172]
+ Additions:
+ Added `Endian` enum and implemented new methods in `blob8`/`buf8`
for reading/writing native values [46d4c9fe][011c6f11][f66861dc]
[f0279313][b781f8cc][543219c9][77182713][06156a7c]
+ Added `Kernel.endian` [2a761ca7][af43b159]
+ Implemented `Blob.readint` / `Buf.writeint` [4f14d713][fecfb22d]
[5cc0e02d][79dd1c8e][ceaf7218][631940c7][38afa2d6][e7b61aff]
+ Added `.native-descriptor` for async sockets [a4db9139][2fd90b1e]
+ Added `.Real` method to native arrays [dd3f91a2]
+ Implemented `last` and `LAST` in `whenever` blocks [890d628a]
+ Efficiency:
+ Made `<$rx>` interpolation 1.05x as fast [62243cd9]
+ Made simple regex matches 1.05x as fast [01c56b48]
+ Other minor optimizations [93ea7ed1][a0cb89a7][adb85609][6c2f3c83]
+ Internal:
+ Introduced a more generally usable `X::ArrayShapeMismatch` error [dd030145]
+ Internal micro-optimizations [38bc682b][f18432ea]
Bumping buildlink3.mk required because the reporter mentions having
to do this because of a time-consuming incompatibility in p6-zip.
Unclear if the packages are independent, so updating together.
No changelog found.
From tomasz motyl in PR pkg/53663
