PaulHowarth/Blog/2016-11-24

Thursday 24th November 2016

Fedora Project

• Updated milter-greylist to 4.6.2 in Rawhide:

  • Add rawfrom ACL clause to match unprocessed FROM command

  • Fix helo ACL clause string match

  • Avoid excessive GeoIP logs if database was not set
  • Fix crashes on configuration reload
  • Allow empty quoted strings in configuration
  • Add GeoIP support for IPv6

• My own testing has revealed some crashing related to GeoIP checks introduced in this version, and I have reverted to 4.6.1 locally until I can diagnose and fix this issue

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0225 in Rawhide:

  • UTF8 decode security fixes for perl 5.6

  • Added extra detection code for overflows and non-continuations; this broke one 5.6 test with an overlong multi-byte character, which previously worked accidentally, i.e. decode "\ud801\udc02\x{10204}"

  • Added tests for ill-formed utf8 sequences from Encode

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.809 in Rawhide:

  • Bug fixes for running MCE inside threads

  • Random numbers are unique between workers

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.807 in Rawhide:

  • Refactored MCE::Hobo

  • Improved reliability on the Windows platform by using threads
  • Bug fixes for test scripts

• Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302067 in Rawhide:

  • Fix double release when 'throw' is used in context_do()

  • Repo management improvements

  • Better handling of info vs. diag in ->send_event

  • Fix test that used 'parent'

  • Better handling of non-bumping failures (#728)

  • Set the TEST_ACTIVE env var to true

  • Set the TEST2_ACTIVE env var to true

  • Fix cmp_ok output in some confusing cases (#6) ( Update travis config

  • Add missing author deps
  • Fix handling of negative pids on Windows

  • Add can() to Test::Tester::Delegate (despite deprecation)

  • Fix some minor test issues
  • Handle cases where SysV IPC can be available but not enabled

  • Import 'context' into Test2::IPC; it is used by 'cull'

  • Propagate warnings settings to use_ok (#736)

  • Fix context test for recent blead

Local Packages

• Updated perl-ConfigReader-Simple to 1.291:

  • Remove the prereq test

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0225 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.09:

  • This release is based on version 2016j of the Olson database
  • Contemporary changes for Russia (Europe/Saratov)

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.809 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.807 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test2 to 1.302067, as per the Fedora perl-Test-Simple package