PaulHowarth/Blog/2013-10-24

Thursday 24th October 2013

PPTP Project

  • Updated pptpd to 1.4.0:

    • Change GPL license FSF addresses
    • Clean up unused return value warnings
    • Don't leak memory on duplicate packet
    • Clean up several compiler warnings
    • Use pppd.h from ppp-dev

    • Do not drop connection on ENOBUFS

    • Fix binary trash when launching pppd

    • Add remotenumber support

    • Catch missing EOL at EOF
    • Add bcrelay manual page

    • Fix segfault on invalid IP range
    • Add support for VRFs through libvrf

    • Fix implementation of IDLE_WAIT

    • Fix compilation with uclibc with legacy support disabled

    • Avoid ipparam and logwtmp on BSD

    • Compiler fix for pptp_gre_header

    • Suppress "ignored a SET LINK INFO packet with real ACCMs"

    • Add missing logwtmp option on pptpd.conf manual page

    • Fix reordering some more
  • I also updated the packaging to do a hardened build for F-16, EL-7 onwards and add systemd support where appropriate

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Archive-Tar to 1.96:

    • Install into site by default if perl ≥ 5.012
    • Fix symlinks resolution on MSWin32 (CPAN RT#78030)

    • Integrate Package::Constants into Constant module and remove requirement on it

  • Updated perl-Path-FindDev to 0.4.1:

  • System path test added in 0.4.0 disabled by default due to potential security risks (https://github.com/kentfredric/Path-FindDev/issues/4)

  • Updated perl-Path-IsDev to add a runtime dependency on perl(File::HomeDir)

  • Updated perl-Text-Haml to 0.990111:

    • Add Data::Section::Simple test dependency


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