diff --git a/Porting/Maintainers.pl b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
index dc9e8eaf33..b5b2da1b47 100755
--- a/Porting/Maintainers.pl
+++ b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
@@ -1090,8 +1090,8 @@ our %Modules = (
     },
 
     'Term::Table' => {
-        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'EXODIST/Term-Table-0.027.tar.gz',
-        'SYNCINFO'     => 'jkeenan on Sat Nov 15 21:20:44 2025',
+        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'EXODIST/Term-Table-0.028.tar.gz',
+        'SYNCINFO'     => 'jkeenan on Fri Nov 28 08:45:03 2025',
         'FILES'        => q[cpan/Term-Table],
         'EXCLUDED'     => [
             qw( appveyor.yml ),
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table.pm
index cc04287864..d1fe554924 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 use Term::Table::Cell();
 
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Cell.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Cell.pm
index e7e8511c8a..399d1871ac 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Cell.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Cell.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table::Cell;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 use Term::Table::LineBreak();
 use Term::Table::Util qw/uni_length/;
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/CellStack.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/CellStack.pm
index 22c878cc4c..1dd97b2f19 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/CellStack.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/CellStack.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table::CellStack;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 use Term::Table::HashBase qw/-cells -idx/;
 
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/HashBase.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/HashBase.pm
index afe87ebb5e..e2a06f381a 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/HashBase.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/HashBase.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table::HashBase;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 #################################################################
 #                                                               #
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/LineBreak.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/LineBreak.pm
index 8082c809a5..11143311ea 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/LineBreak.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/LineBreak.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table::LineBreak;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 use Carp qw/croak/;
 use Scalar::Util qw/blessed/;
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Spacer.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Spacer.pm
index 9a88856430..17f2b91c35 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Spacer.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Spacer.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package Term::Table::Spacer;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 sub new { bless {}, $_[0] }
 
diff --git a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Util.pm b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Util.pm
index 1476d62d44..f045fc33fa 100644
--- a/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Util.pm
+++ b/cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/Util.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use warnings;
 use List::Util qw/max/;
 use Config qw/%Config/;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.027';
+our $VERSION = '0.028';
 
 use base 'Exporter';
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw/term_size USE_GCS USE_TERM_READKEY USE_TERM_SIZE_ANY uni_length/;
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ if ($tsa) {
     *USE_TERM_READKEY  = sub() { 0 };
     *USE_TERM_SIZE_ANY = sub() { 1 };
     *_term_size        = sub {
-        my $size = max map { chars($_) // DEFAULT_SIZE } @IO;
+        my $size = max map { chars($_) || DEFAULT_SIZE } @IO;
 
         if (!$size || $size < DEFAULT_SIZE) {
             return $ENV{COLUMNS} if $ENV{COLUMNS} && $ENV{COLUMNS} > DEFAULT_SIZE;