Tuesday 11th August 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260811.001 in Rawhide:

  • Data update for 2026-08-11

• Updated perl-Crypt-DES to 2.09 in Rawhide:

  • New maintainer (TIMLEGGE)

  • Fix failure to build on newer GCC with implicit-function-declaration (CPAN RT#133363, CPAN RT#133412)

  • Add Security Policy (DES is insecure)
  • Add a Security Considerations section to the pod
  • Minor packaging updates
  • Clarify module recommendations

  • Add a Changes file

  • Move new Module::Whatever to Module::Whatever->new() in pod and tests

• Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000040 in Rawhide:

  • Update taint support detection in a test to handle an upcoming change in perl 5.45.2 (GH#41)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000040 as per the Fedora version

Monday 10th August 2026

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Symbol-Util (0.0203) to use LANG=C.UTF-8 for the pod spelling test to address dictionary issues in recent Fedora releases

Friday 7th August 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perltidy to 20260808 in Rawhide (see CHANGES.md for details)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20260808 as per the Fedora perltidy package

Thursday 6th August 2026

Local Packages

• Updated curl (8.21.0) to add multi_wakeup_internal for threaded resolving (Bug #2509107)

Wednesday 5th August 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder and perl-Sereal to 5.010 in Rawhide:

  • Reset the pending frozen-object state (thaw_av and ref_thawhash) at the start of every decode (Sereal GH#316)