Tuesday 16th September 2025

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Math-Base-Convert to 0.13:

  • Fix precedence issue highlighted by perl 5.42 (CPAN RT#168226)

  • Correct typo: 96 ASCII characters should be 95

Monday 15th September 2025

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250915.001 in F-43 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 20250915

• Updated perl-MIME-Types to 2.29 in F-43 and Rawhide:

  • Require 5.16 (2012)

  • Remove xt/98perl.t

  • ::Type->defaultCharset()

  • Remove use of bareword filehandle
  • IANA updates

• Updated perl-User-Identity to 1.03 in F-43 and Rawhide:

• Changes:
  • Require Perl 5.16 (2012)
• Improvements:
  • Convert to OODoc 3.04

  • Add .gitignore

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MIME-Types to 2.29 as per the Fedora version

Saturday 13th September 2025

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250912.001 in F-43 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 20250912

• Updated perltidy to 20250912 in F-43 and Rawhide (see CHANGES.md for details)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20250912 as per the Fedora perltidy package

Thursday 11th September 2025

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250911.001 in F-43 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 20250911

Wednesday 10th September 2025

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.902 in F-43 and Rawhide:

  • Add support for Iterator:: classes

• Merged PR#2 for perl-Unicode-UTF8 in Rawhide to use system Module::Install but skip ReadmeFromPod on RHEL

Local Packages

• Updated curl to 8.16.0:

  • build: Bump minimum required mingw-w64 to v3.0 (from v1.0)

  • curl: Add --follow

  • curl: Add --out-null

  • curl: Add --parallel-max-host to limit concurrent connections per host

  • curl: Make --retry-delay and --retry-max-time accept decimal seconds

  • hostip: Cache negative name resolves

  • IP happy eyeballing: Keep attempts running
  • mbedtls: Bump minimum version required to 3.2.0

  • multi: Add curl_multi_get_offt

  • multi: Add CURLMOPT_NETWORK_CHANGED to signal network changed

  • netrc: Use the NETRC environment variable (first) if set

  • smtp: Allow suffix behind a mail address for RFC 3461
  • tls: Make default TLS version be minimum 1.2

  • tool_getparam: Add support for '--longopt=value'

  • vquic: Drop msh3

  • websocket: Support CURLOPT_READFUNCTION

  • writeout: Add %time{}

  • _PROTOCOLS.md: Mention file:// is only for absolute paths

  • acinclude: --with-ca-fallback only works with OpenSSL

  • alpn: Query filter
  • ares: Destroy channel on shutdown

  • ares: Use 'ares_strerror()' to retrieve error messages

  • asyn-thrdd: Fix --disable-socketpair builds

  • asyn-thrdd: Fix Curl_async_pollset without socketpair

  • asyn-thrdd: Fix no 'HAVE_GETADDRINFO' builds

  • asyn-thrdd: Manage DEFERRED and locks better

  • autotools: Make curl-config executable

  • aws-lc: Do not use large buffer

  • BINDINGS.md: Add LibQurl

  • bufq: Add integer overflow checks before chunk allocations

  • bufq: Removed "Useless Assignment"

  • bufq: Simplify condition

  • build: Allow libtests/clients to use libcurl dependencies directly

  • build: Disable 'TCP_NODELAY' for emscripten

  • build: Enable _GNU_SOURCE on GNU/Hurd

  • build: Extend GNU C guards to clang where applicable, fix fallouts

  • build: Fix build errors/warnings in rare configurations
  • build: Fix disable-verbose
  • build: Fix mingw-w64 version guard for mingw32ce

  • build: If no perl, fix to use the pre-built hugehelp, if present

  • build: Link to Apple frameworks required by static wolfSSL

  • build: Support LibreSSL native crypto lib with ngtcp2 1.15.0+

  • build: Tidy up compiler definition for tests

  • cf-https-connect: Delete unused declaration

  • clang-tidy: Disable 'clang-analyzer-security.ArrayBound'

  • cmake: 'CURL_CA_FALLBACK' only works with OpenSSL

  • cmake: Capitalize 'Rustls' in the config summary

  • cmake: Defer building 'unitprotos.h' till a test target needs it

  • cmake: Define 'WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN' for examples

  • cmake: Drop redundant unity mode for 'curlinfo'

  • cmake: Enable '-Wall' for MSVC 1944

  • cmake: Fix 'ENABLE_UNIX_SOCKETS=OFF' with pre-fill enabled on unix

  • cmake: Fix setting LTO properties on the wrong targets
  • cmake: Fix to disable Schannel and SSPI for non-Windows targets

  • cmake: Fix to restrict 'SystemConfiguration' to macOS

  • cmake: Honour 'CMAKE_C_FLAGS' in test 1119 and 1167

  • cmake: Improve error message for invalid HTTP/3 MultiSSL configs
  • cmake: Keep websockets disabled if HTTP is disabled

  • cmake: Make 'runtests' targets build the curl tool

  • cmake: Make the ExternalProject test work

  • cmake: Omit linking duplicate/unnecessary libs to tests and examples
  • cmake: Re-add simple test target, and name it 'tests'

  • cmake: Set 'CURL_DIRSUFFIX' automatically in multi-config builds

  • CODE_STYLE: Sync with recent 'checksrc.pl' updates

  • config-win32.h: Do not use winsock2 'inet_ntop()'/'inet_pton()'

  • configure: If no perl, disable unity and shell completion, related tidy ups

  • configure: Tidy up internal names in ngtcp2 ossl detection logic

  • connectdata: Remove primary+secondary ip_quadruple

  • connection: Terminate after goaway

  • contrithanks: Fix for BSD 'sed' tool

  • cookie: Don't treat the leading slash as trailing (CVE-2025-9086)

  • cookie: Remove expired cookies before listing

  • curl-config: Remove X prefix use

  • curl/system.h: Fix for GCC 3.3.x and older

  • curl: Make the URL indexes 64 bit

  • curl: tool_read_cb fix of segfault

  • curl_addrinfo: Drop workaround for old-mingw

  • curl_easy_ssls_export: Make the example more clear

  • curl_fnmatch, servers: Drop local macros in favour of 'sizeof()'

  • curl_mime_data_cb.md: Mention what datasize is for

  • curl_ossl: Extend callback table for nghttp3 1.11.0

  • curl_setup.h: include 'stdint.h' earlier

  • CURLINFO_FILETIME*.md: Correct the examples

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURL_REDIR_*' macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURL_SSLVERSION_*' macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLALTSVC_*' macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLFTP*' enums to 'long', drop casts

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLHEADER_*' macros to 'long', drop casts

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLPROTO_*' macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLPROXY_*' enums to 'long', drop casts

  • CURLOPT: Bump 'CURLWS_NOAUTOPONG', 'CURLWS_RAW_MODE' macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Bump remaining macros to 'long'

  • CURLOPT: Drop redundant 'long' casts

  • CURLOPT: Replace '(long)' cast with 'L' suffix for 'CURLHSTS_*' macros

  • CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION: Mention new default value

  • CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_*: Replace the base64 with XXXX

  • delta: Fix warnings, fix for non-GNU 'date' tool

  • DEPRECATE.md: Drop old OpenSSL versions

  • DEPRECATE.md: Drop support for c-ares versions before 1.16.0

  • DEPRECATE.md: Drop support for Windows XP/2003

  • DEPRECATE.md: Remove leftover "nothing"

  • DISTROS.md: Add Haiku

  • docs/cmdline-opts: The auth types are not mutually exclusive

  • docs: Add CURLOPT type change history, drop casts where present

  • docs: Add major incident section to vuln disclosure policy

  • docs: Fix CONTRIBUTE.md link

  • docs: Fix name in curl_easy_ssls_export man page

  • docs: Fix typo (staring -> starting)

  • docs: Point two broken links to archive.org

  • docs: Put '<>' within backticks in titles

  • doh: Rename symbols to avoid collision with mingw-w64 headers
  • easy handle: Check validity on external calls

  • examples: Drop long cast for 'CURLALTSVC_*'

  • examples: Make 'CURLPIPE_MULTIPLEX' fallback 'long'

  • examples: Remove base64 encoded chunks from examples

  • examples: Remove href_extractor.c

  • ftp: Store dir components as start+len instead of memdup'ing

  • ftp: Use 'conn' instead of 'data->conn'

  • gnutls: Fix building with older supported GnuTLS versions
  • gnutls: Some small clean-ups
  • hmac: Return error if init fails
  • hostip: Do DNS cache pruning in milliseconds

  • HTTP3.md: Avoid 'configure' issue for ngtcp2 1.14.0+ compatibility

  • http: const up readonly H2_NON_FIELD

  • http: Do the cookie list access under lock

  • http: Silence '-Warray-bounds' with gcc 13+

  • idn: Reject conversions that end up as a zero length hostname

  • inet_pton, inet_ntop: Drop declarations when unused

  • lib1560: Fix memory leak when run without UTF-8 support

  • lib1560: Replace an 'int' with 'bool'

  • lib2700: Use 'testnum'

  • lib517: Use 'LL' 64-bit literals and re-enable a test case ('time_t')

  • lib: Drop 'UNUSED_PARAM' macro

  • libcurl: Reset rewind flag in curl_easy_reset()

  • libssh: Use sftp_aio instead of sftp_async for sftp_recv

  • libtests: Update format strings to avoid casts, drop some macros

  • libtests: Use 'FMT_SOCKET_T', drop more casts

  • managen: Reset text mode at end of table marker

  • mbedtls: Check for feature macros instead of version

  • mdlinkcheck: Handle links with a leading slash properly

  • memanalyze: fIx warnings

  • memory: Make function overrides work reliably in unity builds
  • multi event: Remove only announced
  • multi: Don't insert a node into the splay tree twice

  • multi: Fix assert in multi_getsock()

  • multi: Fix bad splay management
  • multi: Process pending, one by one

  • multi: Replace remaining EXPIRE_RUN_NOW

  • multissl: Initialize when requesting a random number

  • ngtcp2: Extend callback tables for nghttp3 1.11.0 and ngtcp2 1.14.0

  • ngtcp2: Handshake timeout should be equal to --connect-timeout

  • ngtcp2: Use custom mem funcs

  • openldap: Fix '-Wtentative-definition-compat'

  • openssl: Add and use 'HAVE_BORINGSSL_LIKE' internal macro

  • openssl: Add and use 'HAVE_OPENSSL3' internal macro

  • openssl: Assume 'OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER'

  • openssl: Auto-pause on verify callback retry

  • openssl: Check SSL_write() length on retries

  • openssl: Clear errors after a failed 'd2i_X509()'

  • openssl: Drop more legacy cruft

  • openssl: Drop redundant 'HAVE_OPENSSL_VERSION' macro

  • openssl: Drop redundant version check

  • openssl: Drop single-use interim macro 'USE_OPENSSL_SRP'

  • openssl: Enable 'HAVE_KEYLOG_CALLBACK' for AWS-LC

  • openssl: Merge two #if blocks

  • openssl: Output unescaped utf8 x509 issuer/subject DNs
  • openssl: Remove legacy cruft, document macro guards
  • openssl: Save and restore OpenSSL error queue in two functions
  • openssl: Some small clean-ups

  • openssl: Split cert_stuff into smaller sub functions

  • openssl: Sync an AWS-LC guard with BoringSSL

  • openssl: Use 'RSA_flags()' again with BoringSSL

  • parallel-max: Bump the max value to 65535

  • parsedate: Make Curl_getdate_capped able to return epoch

  • processhelp.pm: Fix to use the correct null device on Windows

  • processhelp.pm: Use 'Win32::Process*' perl modules if available

  • projects: Drop unused logic from 'generate.bat'

  • projects: Fix Windows project 'clean' function

  • pytest: Add SOCKS tests and scoring

  • pytest: Fix test_17_09_ssl_min_max for BoringSSL

  • pytest: Increase server KeepAliveTimeout

  • pytest: Relax error check on test_07_22

  • resolving: DNS error tracing

  • runtests: Assume 'Time::HiRes', drop Perl Win32 dependency

  • runtests: Remove warning message

  • runtests: Replace '--ci' with '--buildinfo', show OS/Perl version again

  • runtests: Show still running tests when nothing has happened for a while
  • schannel: Add an error message for client cert not found

  • schannel: Assume 'CERT_CHAIN_REVOCATION_CHECK_CHAIN'

  • schannel: Drop fallbacks for 4 macros

  • schannel: Drop fallbacks for unused 'BCRYPT_*' macros

  • schannel: Drop old-mingw special case
  • schannel: Fix recent update for mingw32ce
  • schannel: Fix renegotiation
  • schannel: Improve handshake procedure
  • schannel: Not supported with UWP, drop redundant code

  • schannel: Use if(result) like the code style says

  • scripts: Enable strict warnings in Perl where missing, fix fallouts
  • scripts: Fix two Perl uninitialized value warnings

  • sendf: Getting less data than "max allowed" is okay

  • servers: Convert two macros to scoped static const strings

  • setopt: Refactor out the booleans from setopt_long to setopt_bool

  • setopt: Split out cookielist() and cookiefile()

  • socks: do_SOCKS5: Fix invalid buffer content on short send

  • socks_sspi: Simplify, clean up Curl_SOCKS5_gssapi_negotiate

  • spacecheck.pl: When detecting unicode, mention line number

  • spacecheck: Warn for 3+ empty lines in a row, fix fallouts

  • spelling: File system

  • test1148: Drop redundant 'LC_NUMBER=' env setting

  • test1557: Pass 'long' type to 'multi_setopt()'

  • test1560: Set locale/codeset with 'LC_ALL' (was: 'LANG'), test in CI

  • test1560: Skip some URLs if UTF-8 is not supported

  • test1: Raise alloc limits

  • test428: Re-enable for Windows

  • test436: Fix running on Windows with '_curlrc' present

  • test: Add 'cygwin' feature and use it (test 1056, 1517)

  • tests/ech_tests.sh: Indent, if/for style, inline ifs

  • tests: constify command-line arguments
  • tests: Delete unused commands

  • tests: Drop unused 'BLANK' envs, unset 'CURL_NOT_SET'

  • tests: Drop unused 'CURL_FORCEHOST' envs

  • tests: Fix perl warnings in http2-server, http3-server

  • tests: Fix prechecks to call the bundle libtest tool

  • tests: Fix UTF-8 detection, per-test 'LC_*' settings, CI coverage

  • tests: Merge clients into libtests, drop duplicate code

  • tests: Remove the QUIT filters

  • tests: Set 'CURL_ENTROPY' per test, not globally

  • tests: Unset some envs instead of blanking them
  • threaded-resolver: Fix shutdown

  • tidy-up: 'Curl_thread_create()' callback return type

  • tidy-up: Move literal to the right side of comparisons

  • tidy-up: Prefer 'ifdef'/'ifndef' for single checks

  • tls: CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR testing

  • TODO: Remove session export item

  • TODO: Remove the expand ~ idea

  • tool_cb_wrt: Stop alloc/free for every chunk windows console output

  • tool_filetime: Accept setting negative filetime

  • tool_getparam: Let --trace-config override -v

  • tool_getparam: Warn on more unicode prefixes

  • tool_operate: Avoid superfluous strdup'ing output

  • tool_operate: Use stricter curl_multi_setopt() arguments

  • tool_operate: Use the correct config pointer

  • tool_paramhlp: Fix secs2ms()

  • tool_parsecfg: Use dynbuf for quoted arguments

  • tool_urlglob: Add integer overflow protection

  • tool_urlglob: Polish, clean-ups, improvements

  • typecheck-gcc: Add type checks for curl_multi_setopt()

  • unit-tests: Build the unitprotos.h from here

  • unit2604: Avoid 'UNCONST()'

  • URL-SYNTAX.md: Drop link to codepoints.net to pass linkcheck

  • urlapi: Allow more path characters "raw" when asked to URL encode

  • urldata: Reduce two long struct fields to unsigned short

  • urlglob: Only accept 255 globs

  • vquic-tls: Fix SSL backend type for QUIC connections using gnutls

  • vquic: Replace assert

  • vquic: Use curl_getenv

  • vtls: Set seen http version on successful ALPN

  • websocket example: Cast print values to unsigned int

  • websocket: Handling of PONG frames
  • websocket: Improve handling of 0-len frames
  • websocket: Reset upload_done when sending data

  • windows: Assume 'ADDRESS_FAMILY', drop feature checks

  • windows: Document toolchain support for 'CERT_NAME_SEARCH_ALL_NAMES_FLAG'

  • windows: Document toolchain support for some macros

  • windows: Drop 'CRYPT_E_*' macro fallbacks, limit one to mingw32ce

  • windows: Drop two interim, single-use macros

  • windows: Drop unused 'curlx/version_win32.h' includes

  • windows: Fix 'if_nametoindex()' detection with autotools, improve with cmake

  • windows: include 'wincrypt.h' before 'iphlpapi.h' for mingw-w64 <6

  • windows: Target version macro tidy-ups

  • wolfssl: Rename ML-KEM hybrids to match IETF draft

  • write-out.md: header_json is not included the json object

  • ws: Avoid NULL pointer deref in curl_ws_recv

  • ws: Get a new mask for each new outgoing frame (CVE-2025-10148)

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.902 as per the Fedora version