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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-05-04

Sunday 4th May 2014

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.55 in Rawhide:

    • If diagnostic is true for an object, it will now use Test::More::diag() under the test harness rather than printing to STDOUT

    • The %z specifier will now parse UTC offsets with a colon like "+01:00" (CPAN RT#91458)

    • Made the regexes to parse day and months abbreviations and names a little more specific; as it stood, they tended to eat up more non-word characters than they should, so a pattern like '%a%m%d_%Y' broke on a date like 'Fri0215_2013' - the day name would be parsed as 'Fri02' and the month would not be parsed at all (CPAN RT#93863, CPAN RT#93865)

  • Updated `perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.983 in Rawhide:

    • Fix public suffix handling: ajax.googleapis.com should be ok even if googleapis.com is in public suffix list (e.g. check one level less) (CPAN RT#95317)

    • usable_ca.t - update fingerprints after heartbleed attack

    • usable_ca.t - make sure we have usable CA for tested hosts in CA store

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-DateTime to 1.09:

    • A call to ->truncate( to => 'week' ) could fail but leave the object changed (CPAN RT#93347)

    • The value of ->jd() is now calculated based on ->mjd() instead of the other way around; this reduces floating point errors a bit when calculating MJD, and should have a negligible impact on the accuracy of JD (CPAN RT#93347)

    • Attempting to construct a DateTime object with a year ≥ 5000 and a time zone other than floating or DST now issues a warning; this warning may go away once DateTime::TimeZone is made much faster (CPAN RT#92655)

  • Updated `perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.983 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 1.003000:

    • Add proper POD fetching from module/file objects

    • GH #1: Switch from JSON.pm to JSON::MaybeXS

    • GH #2: Remove incorrect and unnecessary check for class names

    • Provide "ua" attribute in the main object to override user agent

    • Add some use-case examples (examples directory)

    • Add 'releases' method to Author (not official so no docs yet)

    • GH #4: Use example with hyphen

    • Related to GH #4, use Data::Printer instead of shotened name "DDP"

  • Updated perl-Params-Validate to 1.09:

    • A call to validate() where the spec was a reference to a Readonly hash would segfault (CPAN RT#80572)

    • When using the XS implementation, attempting to validate parameters with tainted values would cause an "Insecure dependency in eval_sv() while running with -T switch" exception from Perl if the validation failed; this is fixed, but only for Perl 5.14+ - older Perls do not include the necessary XS API (CPAN RT#70174)

    • Fixed some potential segfaults from the XS implementation (CPAN RT#50412); however, the XS code in general is pretty crufty and tends to assume that values which could be NULL aren't

    • Fixed bad example of state() in POD (CPAN RT#80250)

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