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Tuesday 30th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated ansible-collection-community-libvirt to 2.3.0 in Rawhide:

    • This is a minor release of the community.libvirt collection

    • inventory: Added option 'alternate_id_groups' (default 'true')

    • inventory: Added option 'filter' (default '.*') to include domains by name or uuid that match regex

    • inventory: Added checks to prevent powered-off hosts from being issued guest agent calls

    • plugins: Replaced deprecated imports from 'ansible.module_utils._text' with 'ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters' to avoid ansible-core deprecation warnings and prepare for removal of the private import path in ansible-core 2.24

    • virt: Add 'get_ifaddresses' function to retrieve domain interface addresses

    • virt_cloud_instance: Add support for compressed base images (gzip, bzip2, xz)

    • virt_cloud_instance: Add passt network support via shared network schema (GH#231)

    • virt_cloud_instance: Added cloud-config header when converting cloud-init user-data from dictionary form

    • virt_cloud_instance: Check if instance exists and not running before calling 'create()'

    • virt_install: Add 'wait_timeout' parameter to wait for multi-phase unattended installs to complete

    • virt_install: Add 'wwn' parameter to disk specifications for setting the World Wide Name of a disk device (GH#271)

    • virt_install: Add passt network support with 'value' shorthand and structured 'type: user' form (GH#231)

    • virt_install: Added cloud-config header when converting cloud-init user-data from dictionary form

    • virt_install: Remove incorrect 'required=True' from 'install.os' parameter to allow 'install.no_install=true' without specifying an OS

  • Updated perl-DBD-CSV (0.62) in F-43 and F-44 to fix test failure with DBI 1.648 onwards

Local Packages

  • Updated ansible-collection-community-libvirt to 2.3.0 as per the Fedora version

Monday 29th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 to 1.44 in Rawhide:

  • Updated perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse to 1.03 in EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

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

    • Check link errors and warnings while extracting an archive
  • Updated perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse (1.02) in EPEL-9 to use relative symlinks rather than absolute symlinks in test (GH#51), which fixes FTBFS with perl-Archive-Tar 3.08 onwards

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.37 in Rawhide:

    • No functional changes
    • Replace the body of the LICENSE file with what is recommended at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

    • Patch the source code reference to refer to this LICENSE file

    • Remove the excess and confusing files LICENSE-Artistic-2.0 and LICENSE-GPL-3

    • Reset the required version of Data::Dumper back to 0

Local Packages

  • New package perl-App-Software-License (0.11)

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.37 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 28th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.36 in Rawhide:

    • No functional changes
    • Fix typo in the 2nd FAQ: "How to process every node in tree?"
    • Add new version of LICENSE to the distro

    • Add new files LICENSE-Artistic-2.0 and LICENSE-GPL-3 to the distro

    • Add Data::Dumper, Getopt::Long, perl to Makefile.PL

    • Remove open from Makefile.PL

    • Modernize MANIFEST.SKIP

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.36 as per the Fedora version

Friday 26th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.099 in Rawhide:

    • Close socket by default on failed SSL handshake when created with new, but keep open when upgrading from existing socket with start_SSL; this restores old behaviour that was accidentally broken

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.099 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 25th June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated libssh2 (1.11.1) in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10 to fix CVE-2025-15661: Information disclosure and denial of service via crafted SFTP response

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260624.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-06-24

Local Packages

  • Updated libssh2 (1.11.1) as per the Fedora version

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