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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-07-17

Monday 17th July 2017

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Devel-CallChecker (0.007)

  • New package perl-DynaLoader-Functions (0.002)

  • Updated getmail to 5.1:

    • New release numbering scheme; previous version numbers were just getting too high

    • Catch and ignore/exit cleanly after reset connection in IMAP IDLE mode

    • Allow specifying an expected SSL certificate hostname, for when the server's certificate does not match the domain name used to connect to it
    • Fix error message not actually giving the header field name incorrectly specified as containing the envelope recipient address

    • Add new password_command configuration parameter for retrievers, allowing getmail to retrieve the account password from any arbitrary external command

  • Updated perl-Coro to 6.513, also switching to upstream's version numbering:

    • Experimental 5.22 compatibility changes (PadlistNAMES)

    • Removed attributes example and made sure the other examples still work

    • Fix some statevar types for newer perls, should be of no consequence

  • I also added a patch to disable upstream's disabling of FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20170715:

    • Updated for v5.24.2
    • Updated for v5.22.4

  • Updated perl-Module-Runtime to 0.015:

    • Update test suite not to rely on . in @INC, which is no longer necessarily there from Perl 5.25.7

    • In documentation, warn about the security problem with use_package_optimistically()

    • Declare correct version for Test::More dependency

    • Generate "traditional" style of compatibility Makefile.PL, to permit building in environments that don't support Build.PL or configure_requires

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable to 0.006:

    • Don't demand 5.10, work on perl ≥ 5.6

    • No taint mode flag in t/01-basic.t

    • Avoid problems with our $VERSION = '...' on one line

  • Updated perl-Params-Classify to 0.14:

    • Port to Perl 5.19.4, where the C type of array indices has changed

    • Update to accommodate PERL_OP_PARENT builds of Perl 5.21.11 or later (which is the default from Perl 5.25.1)

    • Trigger custom op generation via Devel::CallChecker rather than by hooking the underlying op checker

    • Update test suite not to rely on . in @INC, which is no longer necessarily there from Perl 5.25.7

    • No longer include a Makefile.PL in the distribution

    • Correct dynamic_config setting to 0

    • Use boolSV() where appropriate in XS code

    • Use cBOOL() where appropriate

    • Consistently use THX_ prefix on internal function names

    • Include META.json in distribution

    • Add MYMETA.json to .cvsignore

    • Convert .cvsignore to .gitignore

  • Updated perl-XML-LibXML (2.0129) to fix use-after-free by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call (CVE-2017-10672, Bug #1470205)

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