Paul's Blog Entries for February 2017

Wednesday 1st February 2017

Fedora Project

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• Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.73 in Rawhide:

  • The format_datetime method now checks that the object it is given isa DateTime object (GH#17)

• Updated perl-Math-GMP to 2.14 in Rawhide:

  • Hopefully fix the GPG signature (CPAN RT#120062)

• Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.042 in Rawhide:

  • The -l and -j options work on the list of namespaces from all files together instead of the list per file; otherwise, strict and warnings for example always show up multiple times

  • Add JSON and simple list outputs for examples/extract_modules

Local Packages

• Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.73 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.042 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test2-Workflow to 0.000018:

  • Use Sub::Info to silence a warning

Friday 3rd February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.043 in Rawhide:

  • Clarified license as Artistic 2.0 (GH#3)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Module-Extract-Use to 1.043 as per the Fedora version

Monday 6th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-DateTime to 1.42 in F-25 to fix issues with DateTime::Duration (Bug #1419473)

• Updated perl-Hash-FieldHash to 0.15 in Rawhide:

  • t/orig/03_class.t failed if FamilyTreeInfo-2.3.24 was installed (GH#1)

• Updated perl-Test-Mojibake to 1.3 in Rawhide:

  • Minor fixes to pass the release tests

  • Add MetaJSON plugin (GH#12)

  • Add new optional dependency on Unicode::CheckUTF8::PP, a Pure Perl implementation of Unicode::CheckUTF8

  • Fixed off-by-one (GH#10)

  • Fixed SYNOPSIS

• Was given co-maintainership of python-paramiko and updated it in EPEL-7 to fix compatibility with the recent pycrypto security update (python-crypto-2.6.1-13.el7) (Bug #1419312)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Hash-FieldHash to 0.15 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Mail-IMAPClient to 3.39:

  • Fix uninitialized value via fetch_hash (CPAN RT#115726)

  • Improve error reporting on failed TLS connections (CPAN RT#119523)

  • Document noop() (CPAN RT#114904)

  • Never retry DONE (CPAN RT#97718)

  • _imap_command() new doretry => 0|1 option to suppress/allow retry

  • Updated copyright for 2017

• Updated perl-Test-Mojibake to 1.3 as per the Fedora version

• Updated ppp (2.4.7) to fix FTBFS in Rawhide by pinning OpenSSL version to < 1.1 for the time being

Tuesday 7th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated bluefish (2.2.10) in Rawhide to avoid potential aliasing issues in the zencoding plugin

• Updated perl-Devel-Symdump to 2.18 in Rawhide:

  • Makefile.PL changes to support perls without "." in @INC; no functional change

Local Packages

• Updated bluefish as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Devel-Symdump to 2.18 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 8th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MooseX-Types to 0.50 in Rawhide:

  • Reverted the is_Foo and to_Foo refactoring again temporarily to resolve issues with Sub::Defer

• Updated perl-XML-SemanticDiff to 1.0005 in Rawhide:

  • Convert the distribution to use git, GitHub, and Dist-Zilla

  • Correct some spelling errors and add more tests
  • Remove trailing whitespace

• Updated python-paramiko (1.7.6) in EPEL-5 to fix compatibility with the recent pycrypto security update (python-crypto-2.0.1-6.el5)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MooseX-Types to 0.50 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 9th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data in Rawhide to the February 2017 databases

Local Packages

• Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the February 2017 databases as per the Fedora version

Friday 10th February 2017

Local Packages

• Rebuilt c-ares (1.12.0), curl (7.52.1), GeoIP (1.6.9), geoipupdate (2.3.1), gtkwave (3.3.79), Judy (1.0.5) for the Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild

• Rebuilt glib (1.2.10), gnome-libs (1.4.2), gtk+ (1.2.10), ORBit (0.5.17) to sync with the Rawhide version

• Updated check to 0.11.0 (see NEWS for details)

• Updated libgpg-error to 1.25:

  • New interface gpgrt_get_syscall_clamp to allow libraries to make use of libgpg-error's system call wrapper functions

  • gpgrt_poll now works under Windows

  • Fixed bug in the locking code when used with the nPth threading library

  • Added support for {i686,x86_64}-apple-darwin

  • Added new error codes

  • New symbols: gpgrt_get_syscall_clamp, GPG_ERR_ENGINE_TOO_OLD, GPG_ERR_WINDOW_TOO_SMALL, GPG_ERR_WINDOW_TOO_LARGE, GPG_ERR_MISSING_ENVVAR, GPG_ERR_USER_ID_EXISTS, GPG_ERR_NAME_EXISTS, GPG_ERR_DUP_NAME, GPG_ERR_TOO_OLD, GPG_ERR_TOO_YOUNG

Saturday 11th February 2017

Local Packages

• Rebuilt gtorrentviewer (0.2b), imlib (1.9.15), libglade (0.17) and libxml (1.8.17) to sync with the Rawhide version

• Rebuilt libmetalink (0.1.3), libpng10 (1.0.67), libssh2 (1.8.0), libxml2 (2.9.4), mod_fcgid (2.3.9), perl-MIME-Types (2.13), perl-Moose (2.2004), perl-Mouse (2.4.7), perl-Perl-Tidy (20160302) and perl-Specio (0.34) for the Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild

Sunday 12th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0226 in Rawhide:

  • Relax longdouble Gconvert test on ppc64le and aarch64-linux-ld, with apparent HW quadmath without USE_QUADMATH (older perls)

• Updated proftpd (1.3.5d) in Rawhide to properly allocate (and clear) the UMAC contexts, to fix segfault in mod_sftp (Bug #1420365, upstream bug 4287)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0226 as per the Fedora version

• Updated proftpd with bug-fix as per the Fedora version

• Rebuilt dovecot (2.2.27), libidn (1.33), libnet (1.1.6), nmap (7.40), perl-HTML-Tidy (1.56), rbldnsd (0.998), sendmail (8.15.2) and smbldap-tools (0.9.11) for the Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild

Monday 13th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.072 in Rawhide:

  • Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC (CPAN RT#120084)

  • Use of Compress::Raw::Lzma::RawDecoder failed with large amount of data (CPAN RT#105460)

  • AppendOutput for "encode" methods said default was 1; it is actually 0

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.072 in Rawhide:

  • Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC (CPAN RT#120084)

• Updated perl-Specio to 0.35 in Rawhide:

  • Added Specio::Subs, a module that allows you to turn one or more library's types into subroutines like is_Int() and to_Int()

  • Added an inline_coercion method to Specio constraints

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 to 2.072:

  • Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC (CPAN RT#120084)

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.072 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.072:

  • Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC (CPAN RT#120084)

  • inflateUndermine: subvert arg conditionally used/unused (CPAN RT#120207)

  • Fix two gcc6-found problems in bundled zlib (CPAN RT#112829)

  • Fix deflateParams for zlib > 1.2.8

  • Tests were broken with zlib-1.2.10 (CPAN RT#119762)

• Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.072:

  • Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC (CPAN RT#120084)

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.072 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Specio to 0.35 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 14th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0227 in Rawhide:

  • Fix CLONE and END, broken with 3.0226 (GH#80); these methods are usually called with arguments, which we ignore

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.045 in Rawhide:

  • Fixed memory leak caused by not destroying CREATED_IN_THIS_THREAD for SSL objects (GH#55)

  • Optimization: don't track SSL objects and CTX in *CREATED_IN_THIS_THREAD if perl is compiled without thread support

  • Small fix in t/protocol_version.t to use older versions of Net::SSLeay with openssl build without SSLv3 support

  • When setting SSL_keepSocketOnError to true the socket will not be closed on fatal error (GH#53, modified)

• Updated perl-Log-Dispatch to 2.62 in Rawhide, dropping the accidental dependency on Devel::Confess from the previous 2.60 package, which pulled in a large number of unwanted additional packages

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.811 in Rawhide:

  • Fixed bug in MCE::Queue (dequeue_nb) when queue has zero items

  • Applied small optimization in MCE::Core::Input::Sequence and Generator

  • Added cross-platform template to MCE::Examples for making an executable

  • Removed signal handling for XCPU and XFSZ from MCE::Signal

  • Imply posix_exit => 1 if Gearman::XS or Gearman::Util is present during MCE construction

  • Added MCE + Gearman demonstrations (xs and non-xs) on Github:

  • https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples/tree/master/gearman_xs

  • https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples/tree/master/gearman

  • Changed kilobytes and megabytes to kibiBytes (KiB) and mebiBytes (MiB) respectively inside the documentation

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.809 in Rawhide:

  • Fixed bug in MCE::Shared::Queue (dequeue_nb) when queue has zero items

  • Applied small optimization in MCE::Shared::Sequence

  • Added MCE::Shared::Cache, a fast and memory-efficient LRU-cache module

  • Added pipeline methods to MCE::Shared::Array, Hash, Minidb, and Ordhash

  • Added recommends section to Makefile and META files: IO::FDPass, Sereal

  • Added cross-platform template to MCE::Hobo for making an executable

  • Added hobo_timeout option to MCE::Hobo for timeout capability

  • Also, imply posix_exit => 1 when Gearman::XS is present

  • Added MCE::Hobo + Gearman demonstrations (xs and non-xs) on Github:

  • https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples/tree/master/gearman_xs

  • https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples/tree/master/gearman

  • Changed kilobytes and megabytes to kibiBytes (KiB) and mebiBytes (MiB) respectively inside the documentation

  • Having IO::FDPass is beneficial for Condvar(s), Handle(s), and Queue(s); thus, append IO::FDPass to PREREQ_PM if we can and not already installed (run MCE_PREREQ_EXCLUDE_IO_FDPASS=1 perl Makefile.PL to bypass the check)

  • Improved documentation for QUERY STRING in various helper classes

  • Updated SYNOPSIS in various helper classes

  • Updated LOCKING section in MCE::Shared

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.005000 in Rawhide:

  • Added the ascii_name and perlmongers fields to the Author object (GH#66)

  • Fixed Author->dir to actually return something (GH#66)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 3.0227 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.045 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.811 as per the Fedora version

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

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.005000 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Script to 1.15:

  • Fix bug where list reference arguments to script_compiles and script_runs are modified (GH#9)

Wednesday 15th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.812 in Rawhide:

  • Bumped minimum requirement for Sereal to 3.015 when available; added check ensuring matching version for Encoder and Decoder

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.810 in Rawhide:

  • Bumped minimum requirement for Sereal to 3.015 when available; added check ensuring matching version for Encoder and Decoder

• Updated perl-YAML to 1.22 in Rawhide:

  • Add $YAML::Numify

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.812 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.810 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-YAML to 1.22 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 16th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.046 in Rawhide:

  • Clean up everything in DESTROY and make sure to start with a fresh %{*self} in configure_SSL because it can happen that a GLOB gets used again without calling DESTROY (https://github.com/noxxi/p5-io-socket-ssl/issues/56)

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.813 in Rawhide:

  • Added progress option, a code block for receiving info on progress made; see MCE::Core.pod for demonstrations accommodating all input data types

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.811 in Rawhide:

  • Bumped IO::FDPass minimum version to 1.2 if not already installed (1.1+) and have a CC compiler on hand; IO::FDPass is optional otherwise

  • Support csh redirection in Makefile.PL via bash for locating C compiler

• Updated perl-Mouse to 2.4.8 in Rawhide:

  • Fix stack collapse (GH#71)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.046 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.813 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.811 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Mouse to 2.4.8 as per the Fedora version

Friday 17th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.047 in Rawhide:

  • Better fix for problem which 2.046 tried to fix but broke LWP that way

• Updated proftpd (1.3.5d) in EPEL-7, F-24, F-25 to properly allocate (and clear) the UMAC contexts, to fix segfault in mod_sftp (Bug #1420365, upstream bug 4287)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.047 as per the Fedora version

• Updated proftpd (1.3.5d) as per the Fedora version

Saturday 18th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Path-Tiny to 0.104 in Rawhide:

  • The 'absolute' method now always returns an absolute path, even if a user provided a relative path for the base path; the old, odd behaviour was documented, but people often don't read docs so the new behaviour avoids surprises

  • Added 'cached_temp' method

• Updated trac-spamfilter-plugin in Rawhide to current subversion snapshot (r15536) for compatibility with trac 1.2

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Path-Tiny to 0.104 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 19th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Apache-Session-Browseable to 1.2.4 in Rawhide

  • Fix incorrect logic for old database formats (GH#11)

Monday 20th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.074 in Rawhide:

  • Lzma.xs: comment out unused variables and remove C++-ism (CPAN RT#120272)

  • Make failure when LZMA_VERSION != lzma_version_number more explicit

  • Added interface to LZMA_VERSION and LZMA_VERSION_STRING

• Updated perl-Digest-CRC to 0.22.2 in Rawhide:

  • Added padding for hex encoded digests

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.074 in Rawhide:

  • ISA fixes for c3 (CPAN RT#120239)

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.814 in Rawhide:

  • Enhanced the progress option for use with MCE->process

  • Updated progress demonstrations in MCE::Core.pod

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.812 in Rawhide:

  • Improved performance for MCE::Shared::Cache; this is now a hybrid LRU-plain cache implementation

  • Added parallel demonstration at the end of the documentation
  • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.814 for the example to run

  • Tweaked MCE::Shared::Ordhash and MCE::Shared::Server

• Updated perl-Specio to 0.36 in Rawhide:

  • Inlined coercions would attempt to coerce for every type that matched the value given, instead of stopping after the first type (GH#11)

  • Inlined coercions did not include the inline environment variables needed by the type from which the coercion was being performed (GH#8)

  • When you use the same type repeatedly as coderef (for example, as a constraint with Moo), it will only generate its subified form once, rather than regenerating it each time it is de-referenced

  • Added an API to Specio::Subs to allow you to combine type libraries and helper subs in one package for exporting; see the Specio::Exporter docs for more detail

• Updated perl-YAML to 1.23 in Rawhide:

  • Fix $YAML::Numify (empty values were converted to 0)

Local Packages

• Updated getmail to 4.54.0:

  • Fix error running getmail_fetch introduced in 4.53.0

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 to 2.074 (test changes only)

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.074 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.074:

  • Zlib.xs: comment out unused variables and remove C++-ism (CPAN RT#120272)

• Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.074:

  • ISA fixes for c3 (CPAN RT#120239)

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.074 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-1.814 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.812 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.08:

  • Fix CPAN RT#120208: Unable to install 1.07 in local::lib environment

  • Feature CPAN RT#119679: Net::DNS::Nameserver: UpdateHandler for responding to UPDATE packets

  • Feature CPAN RT#75357: Net::DNS::Nameserver: optionmask (similar to headermask) added to allow user to set EDNS CLIENT-SUBNET option in reply packet

  • Discontinue support for pre-5.6 perl: remove pre-5.6 workarounds and outdated language features

• Updated perl-Specio to 0.36 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-YAML to 1.23 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 21st February 2017

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20170220:

  • Updated for v5.25.10

Wednesday 22nd February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Mouse to 2.4.9 in Rawhide:

  • Fix build issue on newer Perl without '.' in @INC

• Updated python-paramiko to 2.1.2 in Rawhide

Local Packages

• Updated curl to 7.53.0:

  • CVE-2017-2629: Make SSL_VERIFYSTATUS work again

  • unix_socket: Added --abstract-unix-socket and CURLOPT_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET

  • CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE: Support enlarging receive buffer

  • gnutls-random: Check return code for failed random

  • openssl-random: Check return code when asking for random

  • http: Remove "Curl_http_done: called premature" message

  • cyassl: Use time_t instead of long for timeout

  • build-wolfssl: Sync config with wolfSSL 3.10
  • ftp-gss: Check for init before use

  • configure: Accept --with-libidn2 instead

  • ftp: Failure to resolve proxy should return that error code

  • curl.1: Add three more exit codes

  • docs/ciphers: Link to our own new page about ciphers

  • vtls: s/SSLEAY/OPENSSL - fixes multi_socket timeouts with openssl

  • darwinssl: Fix iOS build
  • darwinssl: Fix CFArrayRef leak

  • cmake: Use crypt32.lib when building with OpenSSL on windows

  • curl_formadd.3: CURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH not needed when chunked

  • digest_sspi: Copy terminating NUL as well

  • curl: Fix --remote-time incorrect times on Windows

  • curl.1: Several updates and corrections

  • content_encoding: Change return code on a failure

  • curl.h: CURLE_FUNCTION_NOT_FOUND is no longer in use

  • docs: TCP_KEEPALIVE start and interval default to 60

  • darwinssl: --insecure overrides --cacert if both settings are in use

  • TheArtOfHttpScripting: Grammar

  • CIPHERS.md: Document GSKit ciphers

  • wolfssl: Support setting cipher list
  • wolfssl: Display negotiated SSL version and cipher

  • lib506: Fix build for Open Watcom

  • asiohiper: Improved socket handling

  • examples: Make the C++ examples follow our code style too

  • tests/sws: Retry send() on EWOULDBLOCK

  • cmake: Fix passing _WINSOCKAPI_ macro to compiler

  • smtp: Fix STARTTLS denied error message

  • imap/pop3: Don't print response character in STARTTLS denied messages

  • rand: Make it work without TLS backing

  • url: Fix parsing for when 'file' is the default protocol

  • url: Allow file://X:/path URLs on windows again

  • gnutls: Check for alpn and ocsp in configure

  • IDN: Use TR46 'non-transitional' for toASCII translations

  • url: Fix NO_PROXY env var to work properly with --proxy option

  • CURLOPT_PREQUOTE.3: Takes a struct curl_slist*, not a char*

  • docs: Add note about libcurl copying strings to CURLOPT_* manpages

  • curl: Reset the easy handle at --next

  • --next docs: --trace and --trace-ascii are also global

  • --write-out docs: 'time_total' is not always shown with ms precision

  • http: Print correct HTTP string in verbose output when using HTTP/2

  • docs: Improved language in README.md HISTORY.md CONTRIBUTE.md

  • http2: Disable server push if not requested

  • nss: Use the correct lock in nss_find_slot_by_name()

  • usercertinmem.c: Improve the short description

  • CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO: Fix compile warnings

  • docs: Non-blocking SSL handshake is now supported with NSS

  • *.rc: Escape non-ASCII/non-UTF-8 character for clarity

  • mbedTLS: Fix multi interface non-blocking handshake
  • PolarSSL: Fix multi interface non-blocking handshake

  • VC: Remove the makefile.vc6 build infra

  • telnet: Fix windows compiler warnings
  • cookies: Do not assume a valid domain has a dot
  • polarssl: Fix hangs
  • gnutls: Disable TLS session tickets
  • mbedtls: Disable TLS session tickets

  • mbedtls: Implement CTR-DRBG and HAVEGE random generators

  • openssl: Don't use certificate after transferring ownership

  • cmake: Support curl --xattr when built with cmake

  • OS400: Fix symbols
  • docs: Add more HTTPS proxy documentation
  • docs: Use more HTTPS links
  • cmdline-opts: Fixed build and test in out of source tree builds

  • CHANGES.0: Removed

  • schannel: Remove incorrect SNI disabled message
  • darwinssl: Avoid parsing certificates when not in verbose mode

  • test552: Fix typos

  • telnet: Fix typos
  • transfer: Only retry nobody-requests for HTTP
  • http2: Reset push header counter fixes crash

  • nss: Make FTPS work with --proxytunnel

  • test1139: Added the --manual keyword since the manual is required

  • polarssl, mbedtls: Fix detection of pending data

  • http_proxy: Fix tiny memory leak upon edge case connecting to proxy

  • URL: Only accept ";options" in SMTP/POP3/IMAP URL schemes

  • curl.1: ftp.sunet.se is no longer an FTP mirror

  • tool_operate: Show HTTPS-Proxy options on CURLE_SSL_CACERT

  • http2: Fix memory-leak when denying push streams

  • configure: Allow disabling pthreads, fall back on Win32 threads

  • curl: Fix typo in time condition warning message

  • axtls: Adapt to API changes

  • tool_urlglob: Allow a glob range with the same start and stop

  • winbuild: Add note on auto-detection of MACHINE in Makefile.vc

  • http: Fix missing 'Content-Length: 0' while negotiating auth

  • proxy: Fix hostname resolution and IDN conversion

  • docs: Fix timeout handling in multi-uv example

  • digest_sspi: Fix nonce-count generation in HTTP digest
  • sftp: Improved checks for create dir failures

  • smb: Use getpid replacement for windows UWP builds

  • digest_sspi: Handle 'stale=TRUE' directive in HTTP digest

• Updated perl-Mouse to 2.4.9 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 23rd February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Hook-LexWrap to 0.26 in Rawhide:

  • Properly wrap CORE::caller for @DB::args (CPAN RT#103186)

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.813 in Rawhide:

  • Revised the main description in MCE::Shared::Cache

  • Improved write performance by up to 8 percent
  • Fixed spelling mistakes

  • Revised the description of posix_exit in MCE::Hobo

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Hook-LexWrap to 0.26 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.813 as per the Fedora version

Friday 24th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.815 in Rawhide:

  • Fixed divide-by-zero error in MCE->yield

  • Refactored code for the interval option by moving the code to the manager process, which allows the manager process to accommodate the next available worker ready to run; previously, a worker taking a long time resulted in empty time slots

  • Revised the description of posix_exit in MCE::Core.pod

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.006000 in Rawhide:

  • Support '_source' filtering (GH#70)

  • Support debug-mode for detailed error messages

Local Packages

• Updated curl to 7.53.1:

  • cyassl: Fix typo

  • url: Improve CURLOPT_PROXY_CAPATH error handling

  • urldata: Include curl_sspi.h when Windows SSPI is enabled

  • formdata: check for EOF when reading from stdin

  • tests: Set CHARSET and LANG to UTF-8 in 1035, 2046 and 2047

  • url: Default the proxy CA bundle location to CURL_CA_BUNDLE

  • rand: Added missing #ifdef HAVE_FCNTL_H around fcntl.h header

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.815 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.006000 as per the Fedora version

Saturday 25th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.817 in Rawhide:

  • Revised the description of max_retries in MCE::Core.pod

  • Improved bin/mce_grep with -r parameter:

    • If no paths are given, start recursively in the current directory rather than await data from STDIN

    • Set chunk-level accordingly to list mode

Local Packages

• Updated dovecot to 2.2.28 (see NEWS for details)

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.817 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 26th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated GeoIP (1.6.9) in F-24, F-25 and Rawhide to fix GeoIP_database_info truncation issue (Bug #1426853, GH#79, GH#80)

Local Packages

• Updated GeoIP (1.6.9) as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Capture-Tiny to 0.46:

  • Avoid variable shadowing to improve debuggability

Monday 27th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-JSON-MaybeXS to 1.003009 in Rawhide:

  • Fix tests to no longer rely on . being in @INC (CPAN RT#120404)

• Updated perl-Object-InsideOut to 4.03 in Rawhide:

  • Update to use threads::shared::is_shared

• Petr Pisar later built updates of this package for F-24 and F-25

Local Packages

• Updated perl-JSON-MaybeXS to 1.003009 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 28th February 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-autobox to 2.85 in Rawhide:

  • Fix failing test under 5.25.10 with -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Text-Template to 1.47:

  • Fix long-standing memory leak in _scrubpkg() (CPAN RT#22031)

  • Fix various spelling errors (CPAN RT#86872)