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Heading to PTS 2026

This is the 16th Perl Toolchain Summit. That number is remarkable in a way that’s easy to walk past — the Perl community has been gathering a small, focused group of toolchain maintainers in a room every single year since 2008, and the output has been disproportionate to the headcount. The Oslo Consensus in 2008 established how the CPAN toolchain would evolve. Lancaster in 2013 did the same for distribution metadata. Last year in Leipzig, the group shipped Test::CVE, prototyped MFA for PAUSE, cut Perl core runtime by 13%, and kept the next-generation CPAN client work moving forward.