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Wednesday 24th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Merged libssh2 PR#3 to fix CVE-2026-55200 (transport.c: Additional boundary checks for packet length) and CVE-2026-55199 (packet.c: check _libssh2_get_string() return in EXT_INFO handler) and built (1.11.1) for F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10

  • Branched and built perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 (0.261630) for EPEL-8

  • Updated perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse to 1.03 in F-43, F-44 and Rawhide:

    • Fix tests to work with newer Archive::Tar (GH#51)

    • Check link errors and warnings while extracting an archive

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 8.21.0:

    • curl: Named globs in output file name for upload glob references

    • HTTP/3: Add proxy CONNECT and MASQUE CONNECT-UDP support (ngtcp2 QUIC)

    • http2: Remove stream dependency tracking (CVE-2026-10536)

    • lib: Drop support for CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE

    • libssh: Add support for SHA256 host public keys

    • tool_urlglob: Add named globs

    • _ENVIRONMENT.md: Windows does case insensitive environment variables

    • _URL.md: Remove the zone-id mention

    • AmigaOS: Avoid explicit_bzero with clib2 in curl_setup.h

    • AmigaOS: Fix build fallouts, re-add to CI
    • asyn-thrdd: Add IPv6 guards

    • asyn-thrdd: Fix result processing without wakeup socketpair

    • autotools: mbedtls detection fixes
    • BINDINGS: Update Hollywood link

    • BUFQ.md: Re-sync with source code

    • build: Enable '-Wlogical-op' picky warning for GCC 4.4+

    • build: Omit zlib pkg-config reference for Android

    • cf-h2-prox: Fix peer leak

    • cf-h2-proxy: Drop interim responses

    • cf-https-connect: Do not engage on proxy origin

    • cf-ip-happy.c: Minor comment typo

    • cf-ip-happy: Update documentation

    • cf-socket: Make Curl_addr2string static

    • cf-socket: Set scope_id for IPv6 link-local addresses

    • cf-socket: Store errno from do_connect in ctx->error

    • cfilters: Fix busy loop on blocked transfers

    • chunked: Reject invalid bytes in trailer
    • CIPHERS.md: Fix the example that uses only TLS 1.3

    • cmake/FindGSS: Drop "MIT Unknown" version value, related tidy ups

    • cmake/FindGSS: Drop CMake <3.16 compatibility logic

    • cmake/FindGSS: Fix comment, adjust custom flavour property name

    • cmake/FindGSS: Prioritize MIT over GNU in pkg-config detection

    • cmake: Auto-select static nghttp2/nghttp3/ngtcp2 Config

    • cmake: Export/forward 'NGTCP2_CRYPTO_BACKEND'

    • cmake: Fix three issues generating lib options in config files
    • cmake: Fix zstd CMake config name

    • cmake: Opt in 'MSVC_VERSION' 1951 to picky warnings

    • cmake: Quote 'COMPONENTS' string in 'curl-config.in.cmake'

    • cmake: Simplify 'LINK_ONLY' imported target extraction

    • config2setopts: Use default protocol properly (CVE-2026-12064)

    • connect: Remove deref of freed pointer in trace call
    • content_encoding: Fix limit failure message

    • content_encoding: Fix non-last chunked rejection

    • content_encoding: Timeout during slow decoding

    • cookie: Check __Secure- and __Host- case-sensitively when read from file

    • cookie: Compare path case-sensitively
    • cookie: Reject control octets in file-loaded cookies
    • cookie: Simplify strstore(), remove outdated comment

    • cookie: Tailmatch the domains for secure override
    • cookie: Trim trailing dots when checking PSL (CVE-2026-8924)

    • creds: Add sasl service name (CVE-2026-8458)

    • creds: Create with empty user+pass
    • creds: Mask OAuth bearer token in trace logs
    • creds: Remove two unused functions
    • curl_easy_pause.md: Rephrase the stream cache when pause clause

    • curl_easy_setopt.md: Change options when no transfer runs

    • curl_formdata: Fix to pass long where missing, document 'CURLFORM_NAMELENGTH'

    • curl_multi_assign.md: Clarify lifetime

    • curl_ntlm_core: Fix nettle 4+ builds in certain MultiSSL combos

    • curl_ntlm_core: Propagate DES 'CryptEncrypt()' error

    • curl_sha512_256: Fix result code on error

    • CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD_T.md: Expand

    • CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.md: This sends all file descriptors

    • CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION: Target is there for symlinks only

    • CURLOPT_DISALLOW_USERNAME_IN_URL: Is for CURLOPT_URL only

    • CURLOPT_DOH_URL.md: Does not inherit proxy options

    • CURLOPT_ECH.md: Simplify the description language

    • CURLOPT_HAPROXYPROTOCOL.md: Only sent for newly setup connections

    • CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE: Clarify this also works for on-going transfers

    • CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY.md: Does not apply for other origins

    • CURLOPT_PORT.md: Use stronger language

    • CURLOPT_SHARE: Warn about early remove

    • CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION.md: For new connections only

    • CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.md: Mention redirects

    • CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.md: Remove stray reference to HSTS

    • delta: Harden external command invocations
    • digest: Escape control codes too
    • digest: Flush proxy state on proxy or credential change
    • digest: Flush state on origin or credential change (CVE-2026-11856)

    • dns-httpsrr-lookup: Use origin, not peer

    • dnscache: Remove Curl_dns_entry_link

    • docs/libcurl: Fix the version for curl_multi_socket_action

    • docs: End "...can be used several times..." sentences with period
    • docs: Fix --follow doc typo

    • docs: Fix a couple of typos
    • docs: Fix grammar and wording in FAQ
    • docs: Fix odd wording in CONTRIBUTE.md

    • docs: Note CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY has no effect on legacy LDAP backend

    • docs: Returned header size reflects HTTP/1-style format
    • doh: Cap the maximum TTL to 24 hours
    • doh: Drop redundant 'curlx_dyn_free()' call in 'doh_probe_done()'

    • doh: Stricter HTTPS RNAME parsing
    • ECH: Clean-ups
    • event: Fix wakeup consumption
    • ftp: Avoid accessing EPSV response one byte past the NULL

    • ftp: Remove 2 Curl_resolv_blocking() calls

    • ftp: Remove bits.ftp_use_control_ssl

    • ftplistparser: Clear strings.target if not symlink

    • gnutls: Allow building with nettle 4.0
    • gnutls: Fix more nettle 4+ compatibility issues
    • gnutls: Require 3.7.2 for earlydata

    • gsasl: Fix potential double free (CVE-2026-8925)

    • gtls: Fix ignored return and uninitialized status in OCSP check
    • gtls: Fix some typos
    • gtls: Minor fixes and improvements
    • gtls: Use the correct return code in trace output
    • gtls: Verify OCSP response signature in gtls_verify_ocsp_status

    • h3-proxy: Fix callback return values and a typo in tests

    • hostip: Remove unused MAX_HOSTCACHE_LEN and MAX_DNS_CACHE_SIZE

    • hsts.md: Mention multiple curl invokes effect

    • hsts: Duplicate live HSTS data in curl_easy_duphandle

    • http-proxy: Verify CONNECT response headers

    • HTTP3.md: Update quiche build

    • http: Don't pass on set cookies to new origins
    • http: Prefer chunked encoding over Content-Length: 0

    • http: Reject spurious CR bytes in headers
    • http_digest: Return better error

    • idn: Replace header guards with forward declaration
    • INSTALL-CMAKE.md: Document CMake environment variables

    • INTERNALS.md: Document minimum nghttp3 and ngtcp2 versions

    • KNOWN_BUGS.md: Remove fixed GnuTLS <-> OpenSSL incompat bug

    • KNOWN_BUGS: Remove stale Threads::Threads entry

    • krb5_sspi: Fix error message on 'DecryptMessage()' fail

    • ldap: base64 encode binary LDIF values with WinLDAP
    • ldap: Fix minor leak on write callback error
    • ldap: Fix to not leak 'attribute' on OOM (WinLDAP)

    • ldap: Switch off chasing referrals
    • lib678: Fix to not be perma-skipped

    • lib: Make '__STDC_VERSION__' literals 'L' (where missing)

    • lib: Transfer origin and proxy handling
    • lib: Two minor typos
    • libcurl-easy.md: Minor clarifications

    • libssh2: Do not use deprecated macros when unavailable

    • libssh2: Drop stray double-negative from 'strncmp()' result

    • libssh2: Fix to return error code on missing parameter

    • libssh2: Replace macro names with non-misspelled alternatives

    • libssh2: Save non-standard port to 'known_hosts'

    • libssh2: Sync version check with INTERNALS.md

    • libssh2: Use non-deprecated 'libssh2_knownhost_addc()'

    • libssh: Map SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS_OTHER to CURLKHMATCH_MISMATCH (CVE-2026-9547)

    • m4: Drop redundant conditions in TLS library detections
    • Makefile.am: Drop test1190 listed twice

    • managen: Apply minor fixes and improvements

    • mbedtls: Null-terminate the private key blob
    • mk-unity.pl: '#include', and not concatenate input headers

    • mqtt: Return error on truncated Remaining Length

    • mqtt: Validate PINGRESP and DISCONNECT have remaining_length == 0

    • multi: Handle pause in multi socket callback (CVE-2026-9080)

    • multi: Remove a stale comment
    • multi: Silence gcc 16 '-Wnull-dereference', bump CI job to test

    • multi: xfers_really_alive

    • netrc: Remember and check filename loaded

    • netrc: Scanner refactor (CVE-2026-8926)

    • ngtcp2: Fail handshake directly (CVE-2026-9545)

    • openssl: Do not mix OpenSSL int result with 'CURLcode' variable

    • os400sys: Fix theoretical length overflows
    • peer.h: Fix typo in comment

    • pingpong: Reject nul byte in server response line

    • progress: Fix CURLINFO time reporting

    • psl: Require libpsl 0.16.0 (2016-12-10) or greater

    • pytest: Pass '--disable' to curl

    • pytest: Re-enable test test_05_01 and test_05_02 for quiche 0.29.0+

    • pythonlint.sh: Make it fail on error, fix ruff warnings in pytest

    • quic: Count zero length packets against max (CVE-2026-11352)

    • ratelimits: Use minimal burst rate

    • RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md: Update coming release dates

    • resolve: Mention in error that IP address is expected
    • rtsp: Bump buf after rtsp_filter_rtp()

    • runner.pm: Apply minor correctness fix

    • runner.pm: Set 'CURL_TESTNUM' for 'precheck' commands

    • runtests: Fix tests for curl builds with embedded CA bundle

    • rustls: Error on CURLOPT_CRLFILE with native CA store

    • schannel: Check 'schannel_sha256sum()' success, and more

    • schannel: Enforce Extended Key Usage for custom CA roots

    • schannel: Error on TLS 1.3-only with cipher list

    • schannel: Fix https proxy for client cert and certinfo

    • schannel: Fix revoke_best_effort setting for proxy

    • schannel: Use fopen instead of CreateFile

    • schannel_verify: Avoid out of blob access

    • schannel_verify: Simplify CryptQueryObject use

    • scripts: Catch Credits-to contributors
    • SECURITY-ADVISORY.md: Expand

    • setopt: Changing the proxy port is also a proxy change

    • setopt: Clear proxy auth properly on NULL (CVE-2026-9079)

    • setopt: Clear the "custom" CA booleans when set to NULL
    • setopt: CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS set to 0 restores default value

    • setopt: Deref the old referer when setting a new
    • setopt: Fix to honour 'CURLOPT_PROXY_CAINFO_BLOB' over Native CA

    • setopt: Gate a few proxy TLS options by checking backend support
    • setopt: More careful clean-up of the HSTS cache
    • setopt: Return error if received 'curl_blob->data' is NULL

    • show-headers.md: Mention bold headers and --no-styled-output

    • sigv4: URL encode the user name in the header

    • smb: constify 'strchr()' result variable

    • smb: Integer overflow proof a size check
    • smbserver: Update internal id generation for Python 3

    • socket: Introduce 'SOCK_EAGAIN()' and use it

    • socket: Use name 'sockerr' for socket error variables

    • socks_sspi: Invalid response length is a fatal error

    • socks_sspi: Store socks5_gssapi_enctype

    • spnego_sspi: Honour CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION for Windows SSPI

    • spnego_sspi: Preserve distinction btw policy-only and uncond delegation

    • src: Fix comment typos
    • src: Sync nghttp2 versions checks with current requirements

    • ssl native_ca_store: Always reinit (CVE-2026-11564)

    • SSLCERTS: Document 8.19.0 default Native CA builds (Windows)

    • sspi: Clear SSPI credentials on AcquireCredentialsHandle failure

    • sspi: Free libcurl allocated memory with curlx_free

    • telnet: Drop an 'int' cast no longer necessary

    • telnet: Drop redundant interim variables
    • telnet: Fix error message typos
    • telnet: Fix old copy-paste typo in variable name
    • telnet: Honour CURLOPT_TIMEOUT in send_telnet_data()

    • test1588: Use %TESTNUMBER, not hard-coded number

    • test1981: Explicitly set the locale

    • tests: Add 'cookies' feature to some tests
    • tests: Add an assert to avoid IPC blocking
    • tests: Add the "--resolve" keyword to tests that lack it

    • tests: Fix unit1636 with --disable-progress-meter

    • tftp: Avoid the timeout calc if the timeout is crazy
    • tftp: Stricter option name checks
    • tidy-up: Add space around operators, where missing
    • tidy-up: Apply clang-format fixes
    • tidy-up: Drop stray casts for allocated pointers
    • tidy-up: Miscellaneous
    • tls: Fix incomplete mTLS config in conn reuse and session cache (CVE-2026-8932)

    • tls: Wolfssl: fixes for PQC key shares
    • tool: Warn when --ssl and --ftp-ssl-control override each other

    • tool_formparse.c: Fix two minor comment typos

    • tool_formparse: Polish error message + make two functions static

    • tool_formparse: tool2curlparts is no longer recursive

    • tool_help: Rectify a bad assert

    • tool_operhlp: Avoid NULL to %s

    • tool_urlglob: Avoid overflow at end of range

    • tool_urlglob: Better 'Duplicate glob name' position

    • tool_urlglob: Make globbing error reported for correct position

    • tool_writeout: Fix %time{} output for %s

    • transfer: Clear referer when set to NULL (CVE-2026-9546)

    • unit1675: Fix potential memory leak on dynbuf fail path

    • unix-sockets: Ignore proxy settings
    • URL-SYNTAX: Document more URL parsing details

    • url: Compare full origin when setting credentials
    • url: Connection credentials origin
    • url: Connection reuse fixes for starttls
    • url: Detect proxy changes read from environment (CVE-2026-8927)

    • url: Don't log bits.close state

    • url: Fix connection reuse for starttls protocols (CVE-2026-8286)

    • url: Keep the question mark for empty queries
    • url: Remove superfluous check
    • url: url_match_destination fix

    • urlapi: Accept 0X prefix in IPv4 address as well

    • urlapi: Change more lowercase percent-encoded to uppercase
    • urlapi: Compare zone-id in Curl_url_same_origin()

    • urlapi: Consume trailing dots after IPv4 numerical addresses
    • urlapi: Deny hostnames with more than one trailing dot
    • urlapi: Drop base fragment on empty redirect
    • urlapi: Fix an issue parsing file URLs

    • urlapi: Fix memleaks on error in 'parse_hostname_login()'

    • urlapi: Fix redirect handling if CURLU_NO_GUESS_SCHEME is set

    • urlapi: Forbid '|' in host

    • urlapi: Handle redirect without set scheme with default-scheme
    • urlapi: URL decode hostname before IP address normalization
    • user-agent.md: Mention double quotes too

    • var: Use a dedicated pointer for the alloc
    • verify-release: Verify more thoroughly with git

    • vquic: Drop stray casts for 'iovec.iov_len'

    • vquic: Fix '-Wunused-parameter' with proxies disabled

    • vtls: More large buffer support and error checks for SHA-256
    • vtls: Use Curl_safecmp for CRLfile and pinned_key comparison

    • vtls_scache: Include signature_algorithms in the SSL peer cache key

    • vtls_spack: Drop redundant macro fallbacks

    • VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY.md: Emphasize comm as a human

    • VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY.md: Emphasize the no email thank you part

    • VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY.md: Test code is not secure

    • VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY: Non-released code

    • websockets: Auto-tunnel through http proxy
    • websockets: Buffer ugprade data at connection level
    • windows: Update MS SDK versions in comments
    • winldap: Avoid NULL pointer deref on 'ldap_get_dn()' fail

    • ws: Make pong sending lazy (CVE-2026-11586)

    • x509asn1: Fix DH public key parameter extraction

    • x509asn1: Fix operator order in do_pubkey

  • I adjusted the parallel test jobs cap to 32 (from 64) to avoid overwhelming system resources
  • Updated libssh2 (1.11.1) as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse to 1.03 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 23rd June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.044000 in Rawhide:

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.044000 as per the Fedora version

Monday 22nd June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DBD-CSV to 0.63 in Rawhide:

    • It's 2026
    • New test for DBI-1.648 CVE fix

    • Minor typo in doc
    • Raise recommended versions for fixed CVE's
  • Updated perl-Finance-Quote to 1.70 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

    • New module Finnhub.pm: Fetches quotes from https://finnhub.io using a free personal-use API key

    • GoogleWeb.pm: Adapt to the redesigned Google Finance site

    • Tradegate.pm: Remove explicit "our $VERSION" assignment that collided with the dzil-injected version, producing a duplicate declaration and an "our variable $VERSION redeclared" warning; use a bare # VERSION marker like the other modules

    • Tradegate.pm: Trim whitespace before parsing date and time

    • Added CurrencyRates/Frankfurter

    • Removed AEX.pm: Euronext.com added JavaScript based anti-webscraping

    • Added CurrencyRates/UniRate.pm

  • Updated perl-GDGraph to 1.56 in EPEL-8 and EPEL-9:

  • Updated perl-Module-Extract-VERSION to 1.121 in Rawhide:

    • Support the old qv() syntax from version.pm

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.64 in Rawhide:

    • Check attribute lengths (memory protection)
    • Minor code consistencies (not user-visible)
    • Dropped support for 5.6.x and 5.8.0; minimum perl is now 5.8.1
    • Fix special str setting consistency for types, undef_str and comment_str

    • Characters []:*/\ are not allowed in XLSX sheet names

    • Fix syntax error in csv2xlsx

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-DBD-CSV to 0.63 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-DBI to 1.649:

    • Extra Cwd::abs_path required for Windows

  • Updated perl-List-SomeUtils-XS to 0.59:

    • Fix a heap buffer overflow in the pairwise function when it would return a very large list

  • Updated perl-Module-Extract-VERSION to 1.121 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.64 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 21st June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.908.0 in Rawhide:

    • Fix for OOP interface: improve handling of mapping keys, for example numbers

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt curl (8.21.0~rc3) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

  • Rebuilt libssh2 (1.11.1) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

  • Rebuilt nmap (7.92) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

  • Rebuilt perl-Net-SSLeay (1.92) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.908.0 as per the Fedora version

  • Rebuilt proftpd (1.3.9 and 1.3.10rc2) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

  • Rebuilt sendmail (8.18.2) for OpenSSL 4.0 in Rawhide

Thursday 18th June 2026

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (8.21.0~rc3) to fix multi_fdset must not report only the wakeup socket (Bug #2460719)

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