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Paul's Blog Entries for November 2015

Sunday 1st November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated GeoIP to 1.6.7 in Rawhide:

    • Fixed a MSVC parser stack overflow when parsing 'regionName.c' and 'timeZone.c' (GH#64)

    • Updated region codes and timezones

    • When using 'GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE' with an invalid database file, the search tree traversal could attempt to read memory outside of the memory allocated for the memory cache, resulting in a segmentation fault; a check was added to ensure that the traversal code does not try to read beyond the end of the file, whether in memory, memory mapped, or on disk

    • Previously the return values from file reads were ignored; we now check these values to ensure that there were no errors

Local Packages

  • Updated GeoIP to 1.6.7 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Class-Tiny to 1.004:

    • Refactored accessor generation to allow subclasses of Class::Tiny to implement alternate accessors

Monday 2nd November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated milter-greylist to 4.5.16 in Rawhide:

    • Reflect config syntax in addhheader logs

    • Honour daemon option in Redhat startup script

    • Fix crash in SPF code

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Module-Info to 0.37:

    • Added a has_pod() method, which returns the path to the file containing the pod (it could be a .pod file), if there is one

    • Listed NEILB as the current maintainer in the AUTHOR section

    • Added link to github repo to doc

  • Updated perl-Pod-Simple to 3.32:

    • Fixed failing tests on Windows

    • Switched debugging output from STDOUT to STDERR; should rarely be used, but modules that do depend on debugging output might need to change how they handle it (GitHub Pull Request #76)

    • Added errata_seen() to make POD errors easily accessible

Thursday 5th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Math-BigInt-GMP to 1.44 in Rawhide:

    • Sync test files with Math-BigInt-1.999707

    • Update the README file

    • Replace 'use vars ...' with 'our ...'; we require a Perl newer than 5.6.0 anyway

    • Required version of Math-BigInt is now 1.999706

    • Add 'Test::More' to TEST_REQUIRES in Makefile.PL

    • Enable 'use warnings'; we require a Perl newer than 5.6.0 anyway

    • Add 'assertlib.*\.exe' to MANIFEST.SKIP, since make generates temporary files like 'assertlibzxjE4WfG.exe' on Cygwin

    • Update author information

  • Updated perl-strictures to 2.000002 in Rawhide:

    • Use ExtUtils::HasCompiler to detect compiler rather than ExtUtils::CBuilder

    • More comprehensive testing

Local Packages

  • Updated cdrtools to 3.02 alpha release 01; I've left the stable release 3.01 in the repository for now so users can revert to it if necessary

  • Updated perl-strictures to 2.000002 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 8th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.60 in Rawhide:

  • Backwards Incompatibilities
    • The error messages for various types of failures have changed
    • The never-documented diagnostic parameter for the constructor has been removed

    • The never-documented feature to allow you to use arbitrary DateTime.pm methods in the parsing pattern has been removed; this never made much sense anyway, since most DateTime.pm methods are not constructor params, but they were used that way

    • Using the pattern, locale, and time_zone to set the respective attribute is now deprecated; make a new object instead of changing one of these values

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a warning from the tests with newer Perl versions (CPAN RT#107620)

    • Clarified docs to note that %Y and %G require 4-digit years (CPAN RT#103147)

    • Using the 24-hour token (%H) with an AM/PM specifier (%p) now leads to an error if you try to parse something like "23:01 AM" (CPAN RT#92445)

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.1604 in Rawhide:

    • Minimum perl requirement is now set in configure-requires, as well as runtime-requires, to ensure that smokers bail out early enough to declare the installation N/A rather than FAIL

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.60 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Locale to 1.01:

  • Enhancements
    • This release uses the locale data from CLDR version 28; the last major update of the locale data used CLDR 1.7.1, released in 2009, so this is a big change - many things have changed in terms of locale data
    • Some locales are no longer available because they are not in the CLDR data
    • The CLDR data no longer includes default date and time format lengths; this is now "medium" for every locale, simply to provide some level of backwards compatibility

    • Loading DateTime::Locale itself is now quite a bit faster; the whole locale registration system has been removed entirely, except for custom locales (CPAN RT#78794)

    • A long-standing issue with the Austrian locale not using the Austrian name for January has been fixed (CPAN RT#52337)

  • Backwards Incompatibilities

    • This is a big new release, and includes a number of backwards-incompatible changes, though most users should be unaffected by this change; if you only use this module via DateTime.pm, you are unlikely to notice any changes other than changes to the locale data

    • The old API deprecated since 0.40 has been removed (almost) entirely
    • We now refer to things as "code" in the docs and method names where we used to call them "ids"; this includes locale, language, script, territory, and variant codes - this is more in line with the various ISO standards and the CLDR packages

    • All the $locale->*_id methods (including $locale->id) are deprecated; use the relevant $locale->*_code method instead

    • The canonical form of the locale codes now uses dashes (-) instead of underscores (_); loading a locale with an underscore in the name (e.g. en_US) still works

    • The way that locale data is packaged has changed quite a bit; we no longer package each locale in its own class: instead, all locale data is in a single module (mostly in a __DATA__ section) and loaded into memory as needed, so if you have any code that checks $locale->isa, that code may break

    • Locales are no longer subclasses of DateTime::Locale::Base; this module is still included in the distribution in case someone has a custom locale that inherits from this module, but this module will go away in a future release

    • The "ii-*" aliases for the "he-*" locales have been removed

    • The "no-*" aliases for the "nn-*" locales have been removed

    • The value of $locale->code no longer reflects the value passed to DateTime::Locale->load; this only affects aliases and non-canonical forms of the code, e.g. if you load "en_US" then $locale->code will return "en-US" and if you load "C" or "POSIX" the returned code will be "en-US-POSIX"

    • All of the documentation related to creating aliases and registering custom locales has been removed; all of these methods still work, but I don't think this system got much use, so I don't want to emphasize it in the docs (but let me know if you are using this and want to see these docs restored)

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.1604 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.03:

Monday 9th November 2015

fedora Project

  • Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the November 2015 databases in Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the November 2015 databases as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 10th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated pari to 2.7.5 in F-21, F-22, F-23 and Rawhide (periodic bugfix update)

Wednesday 11th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated libssh2 (1.6.0) to fix pkg-config --libs output (Bug #1279966) in F-23 and Rawhide

  • Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.15 in Rawhide:

    • Fixed $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH (CPAN RT#108572)

    • Made $* $MULTILINE_MATCHING version specific, deprecated with 5.8.1, removed with 5.10

  • Updated perl-Math-BigInt-GMP to 1.45 in Rawhide:

    • Sync test files with Math-BigInt-1.999709

    • Required version of Test::More is 0.47

  • Updated perl-MIME-Types to 2.12 in Rawhide:

    • Downgrade prereq perl to 5.6
    • Update IANA

Local Packages

  • Updated libssh2 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.15 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MIME-Types to 2.12 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 12th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated libpng10 to 1.0.64 in F-21, F-22, F-23, Rawhide and EPEL-6:

    • Fix typecast in a png_debug2() statement in png_set_text_2() to avoid a compiler warning in PNG_DEBUG builds

    • Fixed printf formats in pngtest.c to avoid compiler warnings and a Coverity warning in PNG_DEBUG builds

    • Avoid Coverity issue 80858 (REVERSE NULL) in pngtest.c PNG_DEBUG builds

    • Removed WRITE_WEIGHTED_FILTERED code

    • Avoid potentially dereferencing NULL info_ptr in png_info_init_3()

    • Fixed potential leak of png_pixels in contrib/pngminus/pnm2png.c

    • Use nanosleep() instead of usleep() in contrib/gregbook/rpng2-x.c because usleep() is deprecated (port from libpng16)

    • Fixed some bad links in the man page

    • Added a safety check in png_set_tIME() (CVE-2015-7981)

    • Prevent writing over-length PLTE chunk
    • Silently truncate over-length PLTE chunk while reading

    • Clarified COPYRIGHT information to state explicitly that versions are derived from previous versions

    • Removed much of the long list of previous versions from png.h and libpng.3

Local Packages

  • Updated libpng10 to 1.0.64 as per the Fedora version

Friday 13th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DateTime to 1.21 in Rawhide (Bug #1267774):

    • Make all tests pass with the current DateTime::Locale

Saturday 14th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.61 in Rawhide:

    • If you loaded this module with warnings globally enabled, you'd get a warning about the import subroutine being redefined, which broke the Package::DeprecationManager API for turning off deprecation warnings; this has been fixed in Package::DeprecationManager 0.15 (CPAN RT#108871)

  • Updated perl-Package-DeprecationManager to 0.15 in Rawhide:

    • Made this module co-operate with existing import() subs in packages that use this module, as long as you use this module last

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt libxml2 (2.9.2) and py-bcrypt (0.4) for Python 3.5 in Rawhide

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.61 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Package-DeprecationManager to 0.15 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 15th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Test-Valgrind to 1.17 in Rawhide:

    • The Test::Valgrind tests will now be skipped when the default and user-supplied suppressions files do not refer to any perl-related symbol; this behaviour can be overridden by passing 'allow_no_supp => 1' to Test::Valgrind->import

    • Fix CPAN RT#101934: t/20-bad.t failing on armv7hl; while the root cause of this issue is probably not at Test::Valgrind's level, it should nevertheless not run the tests when the suppression files are obviously insufficient

    • The accuracy of the default perl suppression file has been improved

    • The tests will be more reliably skipped when no valgrind or no suppressions are found

    • Segmentation faults during the analysis are now more gracefully handled

    • 'no_def_supp => 1' will no longer cause the extra suppressions to be ignored

    • t/20-bad.t will no longer run the extra tests when no valgrind can be found (this was a regression in version 1.15)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Valgrind to 1.17 as per the Fedora version

Monday 16th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Convert-BinHex to 1.125 in Rawhide:

  • Updated perl-Path-Tiny to 0.076 in Rawhide:

    • Tilde expansion on Windows was resulting in backslashes; now they are correctly normalized to forward slashes
    • Typos fixed
    • Fixed spewing to a symlink that crosses a filesystem boundary

    • Add Test::MockRandom to META as a recommended test prerequisite

  • Updated perl-Test-Valgrind to 1.18 in Rawhide:

    • A new Test::Valgrind::Version class has been added to represent valgrind version numbers, instead of lazily relying on version.pm

    • The detection of the valgrind executable has been slightly improved to cover some edge cases

    • Test failures on Windows, or with old versions of Test::More or File::Temp, have been addressed

    • A few extraneous warnings displayed by some tests when they were run with old versions of Test::Harness were silenced

  • Updated proftpd (1.3.3g) in EPEL-7 to add support for specifying TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 as values for TLSProtocol in the mod_tls configuration (Bug #1281493)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-BSD-Resource to 1.2909:

    • The new RLIMIT_ values in 1.2908 were not added quite right; our own tests didn't detect this, but the mod_perl2 ones did (CPAN RT#108955)

  • Updated perl-Convert-BinHex to 1.125 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Path-Tiny to 0.076 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Valgrind to 1.18 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 19th November 2015

Local Packages

Sunday 22nd November 2015

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Exception-Base to 0.2501:

    • Fixes "Redundant argument in sprintf" warning on Perl 5.21.2

  • Updated perl-PPIx-Regexp to 0.043:

    • Beginning with version 0.035, PPIx::Regexp was incorrectly reporting the sense of modifiers when the same token both asserted and negated modifiers (e.g. '(?x-i:...)'); this release should correct the problem

    • Document policy when Perl changes in such a way that the proper parse for a regular expression changes; in this case the more modern parse is preferred
    • Parse white space inside bracketed character classes inside extended bracketed character classes (whew!) as literals, except for the space character itself and the horizontal tab; this tracks the corresponding change in Perl 5.23.4, and will be reverted if the corresponding Perl change does not make it into 5.24.0

    • Clear error when lexer identifies unknown token; those who peruse the changes in this release will see that a bunch of refactoring was done as part of this

    • Parse \U and friends as meta-characters inside \Q...\E; this turns out to be what Perl itself does, as shown by "perl -E 'say qr{\Q\Ufoo}'"

    • Do not end regex set prematurely on finding '])'; the problem is that '])' can occur within an extended bracketed character class if it contains grouping parentheses and the last item in a group is a regular bracketed character class and there is no white space between the end of the character class and the end of the group

    • Record parse failure if switch condition is unknown; the structure was being reblessed to PPIx::Regexp::Structure::Unknown, but the number of parse failures was not being incremented

Tuesday 24th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.68 in Rawhide:

    • Update copyright date

    • Added named markers capability to From: and To: time value input boxes

    • Added support for fixed point binary numbers for both signed and unsigned decimal display types

  • Updated perl-Test-Differences to 0.64 in Rawhide:

    • Bump dependency version for Text::Diff to avoid a buggy release

    • Make tests pass with relocation perl (CPAN RT#103133)

Local Packages

Wednesday 25th November 2015

Local Packages

  • Updated unrar to 5.30, updating the associated debian files to 5.3.2-1 too

Thursday 26th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0203 in Rawhide:

    • Simplify handling of references, removing all the complicated work-around for reblessing; breaks overloaded values, but fixes serialising refs to read-only values (GH#21); schmorp thinks that overloading is broken with this patch, but reblessing and breaking read-only is worse

    • Stabilize Test::Kwalitee with missing XS dependencies

    • Suggests common::sense, not recommend (GH#36)

    • Boolean interop: use only JSON::PP::Boolean (GH#40)

      • Remove our own JSON::XS::Boolean, and solely use JSON::PP::Boolean and accept Mojo::JSON::_Bool (GH#37) and Types::Serialiser::Boolean, which is aliased to JSON::PP::Boolean

      • JSON::YAJL::Parser just produces an unbless IV (0|1)

      • Fix overload of our bools

      • Stringify true to "true", false to "0"

      • Accept is_bool as method call also

    • Implement native encode_sv of the internal sv_yes/sv_no values (GH#39) and map them to json true/false (YAML::XS compatible)

    • pod: add SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS; added a table of safe and unsafe serializers for comparison (only JSON and Data::MessagePack are safe by default)

    • New feature: convert_blessed for encode; stringify overloaded perl objects and with allow_blessed even without string overload (GH#37)

    • New optional decode_json() argument to set allow_nonref as in RFC 7159 and PHP; before 3.02, JSON::XS and Cpanel::JSON::XS always allowed nonref values for decode_json due to an internal bug

    • With canonical, only skip hash keys sorting for actually tied hashes (GH#42)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0203 as per the Fedora version

  • Rebuilt perl-XML-LibXML against the latest libxml2

Friday 27th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0204 in Rawhide:

    • Fix is_bool with JSON::XS >3.0 interop (GH#44)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0204 as per the Fedora version

Monday 30th November 2015

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0205 in Rawhide:

    • Add t/20_unknown.t tests from JSON::PP, extended

    • Fix convert_blessed, disallow invalid JSON (GH#46); convert_blessed always now returns a string, even for numbers

    • Fix encountered GLOB error message (still in JSON::XS, and JSON::PP took over the wrong message too)

    • Fixed regression of immediate raw values for null/true/false to be modifiable again (GH#45, broken with 3.0201-3.0204)

  • Updated perl-Test-Deep to 1.120 in Rawhide:

    • Add none() test; it's like any(), but negative

    • Fix stringification of any() expectations

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0205 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Deep to 1.120 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated python-twisted to 15.5.0 (see NEWS for details)

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