Paul's Blog Entries for April 2017

Saturday 1st April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.824 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Check for EINTR during sysread and syswrite

  • Improved reliability when running nested MCE sessions

  • Updated MCE::Mutex with Channel and Fcntl implementations

  • Calibrated the number of data-channels for IPC

  • Completed validation for using MCE with 200+ cores

  • Completed validation for running MCE on a box having 100+ cores

  • Tuned the number of data-channels for IPC, setting upper limit in MCE::Core::Input::{ Handle and Sequence } to not impact the OS kernel; the result is better performance, yet graceful

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.820 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Check for EINTR during sysread and syswrite

  • Improved non-shared handles constructed with MCE::Shared::Handle

  • Reap MCE::Hobo's from script exiting during development process

  • Calibrated the number of data-channels for IPC

  • Completed validation for using MCE::Shared with 200+ cores

  • Completed validation for running MCE on a box having 100+ cores

  • Tuned the number of data-channels for IPC, similar to MCE

  • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.824

• Updated perl-Test-Regexp to 2017040101 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Prepare for 5.26

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.824 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.820 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Regexp to 2017040101 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 2nd April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Parse-RecDescent to 1.967014 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Add a newline to package declaration lines in precompiled parsers, to keep CPAN from indexing them (CPAN RT#110404)

  • Provide repository and bugtracker entries in MYMETA.* (CPAN RT#110403)

  • Update tests to handle '.' no longer being part of @INC in perl-5.26.0 (CPAN RT#120415)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Parse-RecDescent to 1.967014 as per the Fedora version

Monday 3rd April 2017

Fedora Project

• Petr Pisar kindly reviewed and approved my perl-List-MoreUtils-XS package submission

• Imported and built perl-List-MoreUtils-XS (0.418) in Rawhide

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.826 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Performance improvements in MCE::Queue

  • Is now safe running MCE with the Wx GUI toolkit (wxWidgets)

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.822 in F-22 and Rawhide:

  • Performance improvements in MCE::Shared::Queue

  • When IO::FDPass is missing, croak with error if constructing a Condvar or Queue and the shared-manager process has not been started manually

  • Is now safe running MCE::Hobo with the Wx GUI toolkit (wxWidgets)

  • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.826

• Updated perl-Sub-Identify to 0.13 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Reformatted Changes to follow basic format in CPAN::Changes::Spec

  • Make tests pass without . in @INC

• Updated perl-Sub-Uplevel to 0.2800 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Tests now work if '.' is not in @INC

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Devel-GlobalDestruction-XS (0.03) to drop support for EOL distributions prior to F-13

  • Drop BuildRoot: and Group: tags

  • Drop explicit buildroot cleaning in %install section

  • Drop explicit %clean section

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.826 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.822 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Net-FTPSSL to 0.38:

  • PreserveTimestamp bugs with _mfmt() and _mdtm(); I pulled the arguments off the stack in the wrong order (CPAN RT#120802)

  • Added instructions on how to install this module in an alternate location to the README file

• Updated perl-Search-Elasticsearch to 5.02:

  • Boolean query params must be "true" or "false"

  • Added deprecation warnings

  • The scroll API requires a body with a named scroll_id parameter

  • Added support for pipeline parameter to bulk API, top level and metadata level

  • Added support for 413 HTTP status code - Request entity too large

  • Search::Elasticsearch::TestServer now takes an es_version parameter and works with 0.90, 1.0, 2.0, and 5.0

  • Added common parameters error_trace and human to all params

• Updated perl-Search-Elasticsearch-Client-2_0 to 5.02:

  • Updated to work with Search::Elasticsearch 5.02

• Updated perl-Sub-Identify to 0.13 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Sub-Uplevel to 0.2800 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 4th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Apache-Session-Browseable to 1.2.5 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • PostgreSQL "hstore" and "json" support

  • Add "deleteIfLowerThan" method

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.010000 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Added support for new 'permission' type

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.010000 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-API to 0.008:

  • Fixed tests for perls without '.' in @INC

• Updated perl-XML-SAX-Base to 1.09:

  • Fix test suite to work without '.' in @INC (CPAN RT#120435)

Wednesday 5th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the April 2017 databases in F-24, F-25, F-26 and Rawhide

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.827 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Do not enable barrier mode in Queue if constructed inside a thread or by MCE Model (e.g. Step, Stream); ditto for fast => 1 option

  • Updated MCE not to croak when running Perl in taint mode via perl -T; failing -T were MCE::Core::Input::{ Generator, Sequence }, MCE::Signal and MCE::Util

  • Added Denis Fateyev, Felipe Gasper and Paul Howarth to Credits

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.823 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Do not enable barrier mode in Queue if constructed inside a thread or for the fast => 1 option

  • Fixed leaked handles during destruction: MCE::Shared::{ Condvar, Queue }

  • Updated MCE::Shared not to croak when running Perl in taint mode via perl -T; failing -T were MCE::Shared::{ Handle, Sequence, Server }

  • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.827

• Updated perl-Module-Signature (0.81) to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg in F-26 and Rawhide (Bug #1439089)

• Updated perl-Perl-OSType (1.010) in F-26 and Rawhide to include a build condition to disable running of the optional tests, and avoid the associated build requirements (to help with the modularity effort)

• Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) in F-26 and Rawhide to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test

Local Packages

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

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.827 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.823 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Module-Signature (0.81) as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Parse-RecDescent to 1.967015:

  • Fix misuse of require to include MYMETA.pl; data is just included in both Makefile.PL and Build.PL now (CPAN RT#120922)

• Rebuilt perl-Perl-OSType (1.010) to drop legacy spec file elements only needed for old EOL distributions prior to Fedora 13

• Updated perl-Regexp-Common to 2017040401:

  • Prepare for 5.26: don't rely on '.' being present in @INC when testing

• Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) as per the Fedora version

Thursday 6th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated pari to 2.9.2 in F-26 and Rawhide (see Changes for details)

• Updated perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements (2.140) in F-26 and Rawhide to add a build conditional to disable the optional tests, and pulling in the associated build requirements, to help with the modularity effort

• Updated perl-MIME-tools to 5.509 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Makefile.PL failed with no '.' in @INC (CPAN RT#120871)

  • Test t/Ref.t failed on Windows install (CPAN RT#118262)

  • MIME::Parser::parse_data() should check what it gets back (CPAN RT#119166)

  • Allow \r\n to be used as line-end delimiter when outputting MIME message (CPAN RT#119568)

• Updated perl-MooseX-Types-Path-Tiny to 0.012 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Repository migrated to the GitHub moose organization

  • Switch from Test::Requires to Test::Needs in tests

  • Add MooseX::Getopt option type maps when MooseX::Getopt is installed

• Updated perl-Net-SSH-Perl (1.42) in F-26 and Rawhide to drop EL-5 support and use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test

• Updated perl-Test-Signature (1.11) in F-26 and Rawhide to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg (Bug #1439206)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements (2.140) to drop legacy spec file elements only needed for EOL distributions prior to Fedora 13

• Updated perl-MIME-tools to 5.509 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Harness to 3.39:

  • Make tests pass when PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=0

Friday 7th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Class-Load (0.23) and perl-Class-Load-XS (0.09) in F-26 and Rawhide to fix FTBFS with Test::Without::Module ≥ 0.19 (https://github.com/moose/Class-Load/pull/2)

• Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.419 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Makefile.PL failed due to unescaped paths interpolated in regex pattern (CPAN RT#120799)

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.824 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixed bug introduced in 1.818, syswrite data to a shared file handle

• Updated perl-PerlIO-utf8_strict to 0.007 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Adapt to dot no longer being in @INC

  • Adapt to unicode syswrite being deprecated

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.53.1) to fix out of bounds read in curl --write-out (CVE-2017-7407) and to make the dependency on nss-pem arch-specific from F-25 onwards (Bug #1428550)

• Updated perl-Class-Load (0.23) and perl-Class-Load-XS (0.09) as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Clone to 0.39:

  • Use explicit '.' in tests since it may not be in @INC any longer in newer perls (CPAN RT#120648)

• Updated perl-File-HomeDir to 1.002:

  • Switch to ExtUtils::MakeMaker

  • Compatibility with blead

• Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.419 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.824 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-PerlIO-utf8_strict to 0.007 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-SQL-Statement to 1.412:

  • NumericEval: Fix typo on error handling (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1167381)

  • Fix repo URL and t/02execute.t

  • Fix test failing with blead-perl
  • Refactor constraints processing

  • Support parsing of complex JOIN clause (containing OR and ()'s)

  • Handle backtick quoting

Sunday 9th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Contextual-Return to 0.004011 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Patched memory leak from use of @DB::args

• Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.64 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • use lib FindBin::Bin in tests, preparing for perl 5.26 where '.' gets removed from @INC (GH#54)

  • Use the latest libyaml sources

  • Lazy load B::Deparse for faster startup time (GH#52, GH#53)

• I also added Provides: bundled(libyaml) = 0.1.7 as per the Fedora library bundling guidelines, the version number of the bundled libyaml being determined by comparing commits in the upstream repo (GH#49)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.64 as per the Fedora version

Monday 10th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-IPC-System-Simple (1.25) in F-26 and Rawhide to introduce a build condition for optional tests, to help with modularity

• Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.61 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Avoid relying on current working directory being in @INC

  • Documentation typo fixes

• Updated proftpd to 1.3.5e in F-25, F-26, Rawhide and EPEL-7:

  • SFTP clients using umac-64@openssh.com digest failed to connect (upstream bug 4287)

  • SFTP rekeying failure with ProFTPD 1.3.5d, caused by null pointer dereference (upstream bug 4288)

  • AllowChrootSymlinks off did not check entire DefaultRoot path for symlinks (CVE-2017-7418, upstream bug 4295)

Local Packages

• New package perl-Crypt-Cracklib (1.7)

• Updated perl-BSD-Resource to 1.2911:

  • Prepend "./" to require-d pathnames in tests, in preparation for Perl 5.26.0 (CPAN RT#120993)

  • Add RLIMIT_POSIXLOCKS from DragonFly BSD

• Updated perl-Test-Without-Module to 0.20:

  • Make tests more resilient against old versions of Carp.pm (CPAN RT#121002)

  • Typo fixes

  • Rework test suite, move author tests below xt/

• Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.61 as per the Fedora version

• Updated proftpd to 1.3.5e as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 11th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Class-Load to 0.24 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fix test to handle altered Test::Without::Module exception message (GH#2)

• Updated perl-Class-Load-XS to 0.10 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fix test to handle altered Test::Without::Module exception message

• Updated perl-Params-ValidationCompiler to 0.24 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • The source_for() exported by Params::ValidationCompiler did not work at all (GH#16)

• Updated perl-Sub-Identify to 0.14 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Make tests pass without . in @INC (actual fix)

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.53.1) to disable upstream test 2033 (flaky test for HTTP/1 pipelining)

• Updated dovecot to update dovecot to 2.2.29 (see NEWS for details)

  • Bug fixes include not expanding %variables in passdb/userdb dict keys; if dict was used as the authentication passdb, using specially crafted %variables in the username could be used to cause DoS (CVE-2017-2669)

• Updated perl-Class-Load to 0.24 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Class-Load-XS to 0.10 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Params-ValidationCompiler to 0.24 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Specio (0.36) to explicitly require List::MoreUtils::XS if we're using it in lieu of a recent List::Util; the List::MoreUtils::PP implementation does not work and List::MoreUtils no longer loads the XS itself

• Updated perl-Sub-Identify to 0.14 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 12th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Contextual-Return to 0.004012 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Optimized previous patch for memory leak

  • Added missing test plan to t/fail.t (I reverted this change as the test proved to be quite flaky)

• Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) in F-26 and Rawhide to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test

• Updated perl-Test-NoTabs to 2.00 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Migrated off Module::Install, added META.json and other modern tooling

• Updated perl-Test-Vars to 0.014 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixed a bug where false positives were reported for some code constructs where a variable was used on the right side of an lvalue-expression

• Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.62 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Only check for missing Module::Install related modules in Makefile.PL

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test, and to use an ephemeral temporary directory for GPG key storage

• Updated perl-Test-NoTabs to 2.00 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Script to 1.18:

  • Handle scripts with -T taint mode (GH#13)

  • Use three-argument open

• Updated perl-Test-Vars to 0.014 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.62 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 13th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated curl (7.53.1) in Rawhide to add %post and %postun scriptlets running /sbin/ldconfig to the newly-added libcurl-minimal package

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.53.1) to provide (lib)curl-minimal subpackages with lightweight build of (lib)curl (Fedora 27 onwards)

• Updated dovecot to 2.2.29.1:

  • imapc reconnection fix was forgotten from 2.2.29 release, which also made "make check" fail in a unit test

  • dict-sql: Merging multiple UPDATEs to a single statement wasn't actually working

  • Fixed building with vpopmail

• Updated pigeonhole to 0.4.18:

  • imapsieve plugin: Implemented the copy_source_after rule action

  • imapsieve plugin: Added non-standard Sieve environment items for the source and destination mailbox

  • multiscript: The execution of the discard script had an implicit "keep", rather than an implicit "discard"

Friday 14th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Branched and built perl-List-MoreUtils-XS (0.418) for F-26 (Bug #1442285)

• Updated perl-Contextual-Return to 0.004014 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Reverted to 0.004011 due to segfaults under optimized memory leak patch

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Perl-Critic-Pulp to 93:

  • Metadata changes only

Saturday 15th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302083 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixes for '. in @INC' changes (#768)

  • Timeout when waiting for child processes and threads (#765)

  • Fix SIGSYS localization issue (#758)

  • Fix outdated docs (#759, #754)

  • Fix bail-out in buffered subtest (#747)

  • Fix threads timeout for older perls (as best we can)
  • Fix test that incorrectly called private function as method

  • Update some breakage info for Test::More::Prefix and Test::DBIx::Class::Schema

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302083 as per the Fedora version

Monday 17th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Branched and built perl-Crypt-Cracklib (1.7) in EPEL-7

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.048 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixed small memory leaks during destruction of socket and context (CPAN RT#120643)

• Updated perl-Test-File to 1.443 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Found another relative path require issue: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ryan_voots/2017/04/trials-and-troubles-with-changing-inc.html

  • This is another attempt at avoiding failures from the v5.26 removal of . from @INC

Local Packages

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.048 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-File to 1.443 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-XML-Simple to 2.24:

  • Another fix to the logic for detecting circular references (CPAN RT#114120)

  • Don't initialize $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER to undef as a caller may have already set it before loading XML::Simple and if not, it would have defaulted to undef anyway (CPAN RT#118205)

• Updated unrar to 5.50 beta 1

Tuesday 18th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated pari (2.9.2) in F-26 and Rawhide to drop the pari-2.7 compatibility library now that nothing in F-26 or Rawhide uses it

• Updated perl-Test-API to 0.008 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixed tests for perls without '.' in @INC

• I forgot to do this update in Fedora when I did my local update a while back

Wednesday 19th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.011000 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Added support for scroller time/size params

  • Removed warning of scroller deletion failure (GH#81)

Local Packages

• Updated curl to 7.54.0, which includes fix for CVE-2017-7468: switch off SSL session id when client cert is used

• Updated java-1.8.0-oracle to Java SE 8 Update 131 (cumulative bugfix, enhancement and security update; see release notes at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u131-relnotes-3565278.html)

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.011000 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 20th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.30 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fix handling carriage return after c-indicator (CPAN RT#41141)

  • Fix CHECK_UTF8 SEGV with empty len=0 strings (CPAN RT#61562)

  • Add missing function declarations

  • Tighten the TODO tests; no passing TODOs now, but still JSON

  • SingleQuote and \/ and \u roundtrips do fail

Local Packages

• New package perl-Sys-HostAddr (0.993)

• Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.30 as per the Fedora version

Friday 21st April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-GD to 2.59 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Remove Build.PL, fix permissions, fix for missing gdlib-config

  • Fix feature extraction ≥ 2.2 (CPAN RT#119459)

  • Add alpha method

  • Improve option handling
  • Fix metadata

  • Fix Jpeg magic number detection (CPAN RT#26146)

  • Fix RGB-HSV roundtrips (CPAN RT#120572)

  • Fix -print-search-dirs errors (CPAN RT#106265)

  • Co-maint to RURBAN

  • Add hv_fetchs, CI smokers

  • Add GD::VERSION_STRING API

  • Honour --lib_gd_path specific gdlib-config

  • Loosen the comparison tests with GDIMAGETYPE ne gd2

  • Improve gdlib-config parsing (GH#17), especially with 2.0.34

  • Error on failing libgd calls

  • Fix colorClosestAlpha, colorAllocateAlpha

  • Add missing documentation

Local Packages

• Updated perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig to 1.16:

  • Add exists() method, and update README (CPAN RT#77880)

  • Handle removal of '.' from @INC for Perl 5.26 (CPAN RT#120819)

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20170420:

  • Updated for v5.25.12

• Updated perl-MooseX-Role-Parameterized to 1.10:

  • Add MooseX::Role::Parameterised as stub documentation, for discoverability

Saturday 22nd April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-GD to 2.60 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Add missing methods newFromWBMP, newFromXbm (CPAN RT#68784) and some missing docs

  • Add --lib_fontconfig_path, --fcgi options

  • Rewrote most of the XS code

  • Clean up Makefile.PL (GH#20)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-version to 0.9918:

  • Fix compiling under C++11 (CPAN RT#118846)

  • Make version::regex variables public for better reuse (CPAN RT#119669)

  • Use rel2abs for require in tests to support 5.26.0 @INC (CPAN RT#121148)

  • Move change list to standard CHANGES out of README (CPAN RT#119123)

  • Better taint handling for Perl < 5.17.2 with tests (CPAN RT#118087)

Sunday 23rd April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-GD to 2.65 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Add CONFIGURE_REQUIRES metadata

  • Add --gdlib_config_path

  • Add Image Filters: scatter, pixelate, negate, grayscale, brightness, contrast, color, selectiveBlur, edgeDetectQuick, gaussianBlur, emboss, meanRemoval, smooth, copyGaussianBlurred

  • Add palette methods: createPaletteFromTrueColor, neuQuant (but discouraged), `colorMatch

  • Add interpolation methods: copyScale, copyRotateInterpolated, interpolationMethod

  • Add double GD::VERSION

  • Add all gd.h constants

  • Fixed wrong <5.14 code generated with ExtUtils::Constants (CPAN RT#121297); only generate const-xs.inc when it's missing

  • Add -liconv on hpux too (our pkgconfig parser cannot handle it)

  • Renamed VERSION() to LIBGD_VERSION() (CPAN RT#121307); it was treated magically by "use GD 2.18"

  • Update documentation for LIBGD_VERSION()

  • Fix 5.6.2, which does not have float in its typemap

  • Fix --gdlib_config_path to accept an argument

• Updated perl-utf8-all to 0.022 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Adapted to changes in Encode v2.89

Monday 24th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Class-C3 to 0.33 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Update bundled ExtUtils::HasCompiler to 0.017

  • Moved repository to Moose GitHub org

  • Avoid using base.pm in tests (CPAN RT#120530)

  • Minor pod and test clean ups

• Updated perl-GD to 2.66 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Throw proper error on newFrom* with not-existing file

  • Add t/transp.t from CPAN RT#40525

  • Improve multiple gd.h warning (CPAN RT#54366)

  • Better documentation for GD::Simple->arc

  • Fix ANIMGIF with libgd 2.3.0-dev

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Class-C3 to 0.33 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 25th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-IPC-Run to 0.95 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Enable Travis-CI integration for IPC::Run

  • Use q{} and qq{} to fix problems with quotation in cmd.exe

  • Sync $VERSION across all files to address kwalitee

  • Stop side effect of altering flushing of STDOUT and STDERR (CPAN RT#109243)

  • CHILD_HANDLE should be closed with 'Close' to prevent a warning

  • Require Win32API::File on Windows

  • Better timer error message plus an additional unit test
  • Catching previously non-detected malformed time strings

  • Let Timer accept all allowable perl numbers

  • Allow the OS to choose the ephemeral port to use

  • Don't use version.pm to parse the perl version in Makefile.PL

  • perltidy

  • Do not import POSIX into local namespace (it's a memory hog)

  • Skip infinity test on perl below 5.8.9
  • Spelling fixes

  • Documentation fix: full_result returns $?, not $? >> 8

  • Fix check for reaped PID in reap_nb

  • Re-remove unnecessary use of UNIVERSAL

Local Packages

• Updated contagged (0.8.0) to fix another incompatibility with PHP7 (preg_replace with e modifier no longer works, leading to the LDAP filter always being set to "a" regardless of what's being searched for):

• --- inc/functions.php
  +++ inc/functions.php
  @@ -356,12 +356,19 @@ function ldap_store_objectclasses($dn,$c
    *
    * Ported from Perl's Net::LDAP::Util escape_filter_value
    *
  - * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
  + * @param string $string The string to be parsed
  + * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
  + * @author Modified for PHP55 by Esteban Santana Santana <MentalPower@GMail.com>
  + * @return string
    */
   function ldap_filterescape($string){
  -  return preg_replace('/([\x00-\x1F\*\(\)\\\\])/e',
  -                            '"\\\\\".join("",unpack("H2","$1"))',
  -                            $string);
  +       return preg_replace_callback(
  +               '/([\x00-\x1F\*\(\)\\\\])/',
  +               function ($matches) {
  +                       return "\\".join("", unpack("H2", $matches[1]));
  +               },
  +               $string
  +       );
   }
   
   /**

• Updated perl-IPC-Run to 0.95 as per the Fedora version

• Updated unrar (5.50 beta 1) to new upstream tarball 5.5.2

Wednesday 26th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.29 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • More documentation for bind_columns (CPAN RT#121350)

  • New attribute "strict" (also addresses CPAN RT#121350)

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.54.0) to use libnssckbi.so as the default source of trust when using the NSS backend, and not to leak PKCS #11 slot while loading a key (Bug #1444860)

• Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.29 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 27th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.012000 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Fixed 'email' field handling in Author objects (GH#83)

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.54.0) to switch the TLS back-end back to OpenSSL for Fedora 27 onwards (Bug #1445153)

• Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.012000 as per the Fedora version

Saturday 29th April 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.828 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Do not enable barrier mode for Queue on the Windows platform

  • Fixed MCE::Mutex::Flock, tmp_file missing script name in path

  • Added Curses and Prima to list for enabling the posix_exit option

  • Allow a hash as input_data: Core API, MCE::{ Flow, Loop, Step }

  • Improved API documentation on MCE models with more synopsis

  • Enhanced IPC and signal handling, reduced memory consumption

  • Make tmp_dir on demand in MCE::Signal; ditto for sess_dir in MCE

  • Load Fcntl, File::Path, Symbol on demand

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.825 in F-26 and Rawhide:

  • Do not enable barrier mode for Queue on the Windows platform

  • Fixed MCE::Hobo on the Windows platform for older Perl < v5.16

  • Added Curses and Prima to list for enabling the posix_exit option

  • Added module option for using a class implicitly when tie'ing a variable

  • Added unbless option when exporting a shared object

  • Improved support for running MCE::Hobo on the NetBSD platform

  • Enhanced IPC and signal handling, reduced memory consumption

  • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.828

Local Packages

• Updated curl (7.54.0) not to require nss-pem for OpenSSL builds

• Updated perl-Data-UUID (1.221) to drop support for EOL distributions prior to F-13

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.828 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.825 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 30th April 2017

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Params-Validate to 1.27:

  • When more than one required parameter is missing, the list of missing parameters in the error message is sorted by name (GH#14)