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Sunday 19th April 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Finance-Quote to 1.69 in F-42, F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.1, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10.3:

    • Sinvestor.pm: Trim whitespace before parsing date and price

    • XETRA.pm: Trim whitespace from date-time before extracting the actual date value (GH#557)

    • Modified Stooq.pm to send cookies

      • Stooq requires European visitors to their website to accept cookies
      • Cookies are set using JavaScript

      • Current version of module hard codes these cookies gleaned from a browser session
    • Added CurrencyRates/TwelveData.pm

  • Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.055 in Rawhide:

    • extract_modules can now search PATH for file

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.055 as per the Fedora version

Friday 17th April 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260416.001 in Rawhide:

    • Stop unintended autovivification of ISBN_RANGE_MESSAGE (GH#236)

Thursday 16th April 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Devel-CallParser to 0.004 in Rawhide:

    • Fix failing tests where '.' was removed from INC

    • Fix cpantester fails on debug perls; switch to a rv2cv op that dereferences a code reference, matching what Perl expects as the last child of OP_ENTERSUB newUNOP(OP_RV2CV, 0, newSVOP(OP_CONST, 0, newRV_inc((SV*)cv)));

    • Fix qerror compatibility across perl versions: declare Perl_qerror via EXTERN_C to fix implicit declaration error on blead perl 5.43.9+ and avoid Perl_yyerror linker failure on Windows

    • PERL_VERSION_GE is now wrapped in #ifndef so it skips the local definition when Perl's handy.h already defines it

    • The qerror fallback now checks for Perl_qerror first (older Perls), and falls back to Perl_yyerror

    • Fix t/leximport.t failures on threaded/debugging Perl builds: add find_lexical_cv() helper that checks %^H hints hash directly for Lexical::Sub CVs before falling back to rv2cv_op_cv() lookup

Monday 13th April 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.127 in F-44, Rawhide and EPEL-10:

    • Fix for fixed point shift that does not disable it on the specify value change menu option
    • Changed ps2pdf to pstopdf on Mac as ps removed by Sonoma

    • Warnings fix in vcd2fst for missing string.h include

    • Added FST_ST_SV_ARRAY (FST) and "sv_array" (VCD) for arrays (gtkwave/libfst#17)

    • Wrote replacement for gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data

    • Update FSDB to handle FST_ST_SV_ARRAY (VCS emits this), FSDB_ST_SV_INTERFACEPORT_REF, and FSDB_VT_STRING

    • Added "SV_ST_ARRAY" to exclude file parsing on init

    • Fix use after free of GLOBALS->entrybox_text in regexp_highlight_generic()

  • I dropped the dependency on gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra (added for GH#417), XPM support now done locally

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (rc) to new upstream release candidate 8.20.0~rc2

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.127 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-version to 0.9934:

    • Reorder "v" check to avoid forward goto

    • Fix string comparisons with $] to use numeric comparison instead

    • Remove unnecessary shebang in version.pm

Saturday 11th April 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260411.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-04-11
  • Updated perl-Net-CIDR-Lite to 0.23 in F-42, F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-8, EPEL-10.1, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL10:

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Net-CIDR-Lite to 0.23 as per the Fedora version

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