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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-03-26

Wednesday 26th March 2014

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Meta to 2.140640 in Rawhide:

    • Improved bad version handling during META conversion
    • When downgrading multiple licenses to version 1.x META formats, if all the licenses are open source, the downgraded license will be "open_source", not "unknown"

    • Added a 'load_string' method that guesses whether the string is YAML or JSON

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.973 in Rawhide:

    • With SSL_ca, certificate handles can now be used in addition to SSL_ca_file and SSL_ca_path

    • No longer complain if SSL_ca_file and SSL_ca_path are both given; instead, add both as options to the CA store

    • Shortcut 'issuer' to give both issuer_cert and issuer_key in CERT_create

  • Updated perl-Scalar-List-Utils to 1.38 in Rawhide:

    • Skip pairmap()'s MULTICALL implementation 5.8.9/5.10.0 as it doesn't work (CPAN RT#87857)

    • Comment on the fact that package "0" is defined but false (CPAN RT#88201)

    • TODO test in t/readonly.t now passes since 5.19.3 (CPAN RT#88223)

    • Added any, all, none, notall list reduction functions (inspired by List::MoreUtils)

    • Added List::Util::product()

    • Added Scalar::Util::unweaken()

    • Avoid C99/C++-style comments in XS code
    • Fix dualvar tests for perl 5.6; fix skip() test counts in dualvar.t

    • Neater documentation examples of other functions that can be built using reduce

    • Implement reduce() and first() even in the absence of MULTICALL

    • Various documentation changes/updates
    • Correct uses of overload operators in unit tests (CPAN RT#91969)

  • Updated perl-Test-Modern to 0.005 in Rawhide:

    • Support Perl 5.6.1+

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.36.0:

  • This release includes the following security advisories:
  • This release includes the following changes:
    • ntlm: added support for NTLMv2
    • Tool: added support for URL specific options
    • openssl: add ALPN support
    • gtls: add ALPN support
    • nss: add ALPN and NPN support
    • Added CURLOPT_EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS

    • Tool: add --no-alpn and --no-npn

    • Added CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_NPN and CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_ALPN

    • winssl: enable TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 by default
    • winssl: TLSv1.2 disables certificate signatures using MD5 hash
    • winssl: enable hostname verification of IP address using SAN or CN
    • darwinssl: don't omit CN verification when an IP address is used
    • http2: build with current nghttp2 version

    • polarssl: dropped support for PolarSSL < 1.3.0

    • openssl: info message with SSL version used
  • This release includes the following bugfixes:
    • nss: allow to use ECC ciphers if NSS implements them
    • netrc: fixed a memory leak in an OOM condition
    • ftp: fixed a memory leak on wildcard error path
    • pipeline: fixed a NULL pointer dereference on OOM

    • nss: prefer highest available TLS version
    • 100-continue: fix timeout condition

    • ssh: fixed a NULL pointer dereference on OOM condition

    • formpost: use semicolon in multipart/mixed
    • --help: add missing --tlsv1.x options

    • formdata: fixed memory leak on OOM condition
    • ConnectionExists: reusing possible HTTP+NTLM connections better

    • mingw32: fix compilation
    • Chunked decoder: track overflows correctly
    • curl_easy_setopt.3: add CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0

    • dict: fix memory leak in OOM exit path
    • valgrind: added suppression on optimized code

    • curl: output protocol headers using binary mode

    • Tool: added URL index to password prompt for multiple operations
    • ConnectionExists: re-use non-NTLM connections better

    • axtls: call ssl_read repeatedly

    • multi: make MAXCONNECTS default 4 x number of easy handles function

    • configure: fix the --disable-crypto-auth option

    • multi: ignore SIGPIPE internally

    • curl.1: update the description of --tlsv1

    • SFTP: skip reading the dir when NOBODY=1

    • easy: fixed a memory leak on OOM condition

    • Tool: fixed incorrect return code when setting HTTP request fails
    • configure: tiny fix to honour POSIX

    • Tool: do not output libcurl source for the information-only parameters

    • Rework Open Watcom make files to use standard Wmake features

    • x509asn: moved out Curl_verifyhost from NSS builds

    • configure: call it GSS-API

    • hostcheck: Curl_cert_hostcheck is not used by NSS builds

    • multi_runsingle: move timestamp into INIT

    • remote_port: allow connect to port 0

    • parse_remote_port: error out on illegal port numbers better

    • ssh: pass errors from libssh2_sftp_read up the stack

    • docs: remove documentation on setting up krb4 support
    • polarssl: build fixes to work with PolarSSL 1.3.x
    • polarssl: fix possible handshake timeout issue in multi

    • nss: allow to enable/disable cipher-suites better
    • ssh: prevent a logic error that could result in an infinite loop
    • http2: free resources on disconnect
    • polarssl: avoid extra newlines in debug messages
    • rtsp: parse "Session:" header properly

    • trynextip: don't store 'ai' on failed connects

    • Curl_cert_hostcheck: strip trailing dots in host name and wildcard

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.973 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Modern to 0.005 as per the Fedora version


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