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Tuesday 16th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.185.3 in Rawhide:

    • Don't require Moose when mocking Moo (GH#93, GH#94)

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302222 in Rawhide:

    • Add missing Changes entry

    • Fix test that fails on some Windows versions due to path separators

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustMe to 0.002002:

    • Fix passing options to all_pod_coverage_ok

  • Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.185.3 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302222 as per the Fedora version

Monday 15th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Crypt-DSA to 1.21 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

    • Fixed key material reuse for multiple signing events (CVE-2026-12205, CWE-323)

      • sign() reused the DSA nonce k across signatures (r and k^-1 were cached on the key and not regenerated), allowing private-key recovery from two signatures over different messages

      • Now generates a fresh nonce per signature
      • Keys used to sign more than once with an affected version should be considered compromised
  • Updated perl-Crypt-DSA (1.17) in EPEL-8 and EPEL-9 to fix key material reuse for multiple signing events

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302221 in Rawhide:

    • Prevent the new EBCDIC support from breaking 5.6
  • Updated python-paramiko to 3.5.1 in EPEL-10:

    • Private key material is now explicitly 'unpadded' during decryption, removing a reliance on some lax OpenSSL behaviour and making us compatible with future Cryptography releases (GH#2490)

  • This update was done because the "future Cryptography releases" landed in EL-10

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302221 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 14th June 2026

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-PPIx-Regexp to 0.092:

    • Remove references to the RT bug tracking system
    • Replace wyant@cpan.org with harryfmudd@comcast.net

    • Correct documentation errors
    • No functional changes

Saturday 13th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260613.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-06-13
  • Updated perl-PPIx-QuoteLike to 0.024 in Rawhide:

    • Remove references to the RT bug tracking system
    • Replace wyant@cpan.org with harryfmudd@comcast.net

    • Repackage licenses so that GitHub can find them (maybe)

    • Add SECURITY policy

    • No functional changes

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-PPIx-QuoteLike to 0.024 as per the Fedora version

Friday 12th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260611.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-06-11
  • Updated perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to 0.261630 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

    • Change the default hash algorithm to HMAC-SHA256, and increase the default number of iterations to 600,000, in line with current OWASP recommendations (CVE-2026-9641)

    • Generate salts using Crypt::URandom (a strong system RNG) instead of perl's builtin rand(), which is not cryptographically secure (CVE-2026-9638)

    • Use a constant-time comparison in 'validate' to avoid timing attacks (CVE-2017-20240)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-BDB (1.92) to rename atfork_child to bdb_atfork_child to avoid collision with perl 5.43.2+

  • Updated perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to 0.261630 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated sendmail (8.18.2) to enable support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) and to use self-signed certificate instead of the CA bundle (Bug #2476449)

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