Monday 2nd November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder to 0.280235:

  • Fix compilation on darwin with XCode 12 (-Werror=implicit-function-declaration)

• Updated perl-Params-Util to 1.102:

  • Fix installation in pureperl mode (CPAN RT#133623)

  • Update ppport.h using Devel::PPPort 3.62

Wednesday 4th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-IO-Tty to 1.15 in Rawhide:

  • Skip winsize test on Solaris and QNX NTO (GH#22)

  • Make function tests more robust (GH#24)

  • Work around a header name collision on util.h; this is breaking on recent OSX (GH#26)

• Updated perl-Net-DNS (1.27) in Rawhide to drop erroneous UTF-8 encoding conversion of Changes file (Bug #1869049)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-IO-Tty to 1.15 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 5th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated schily to 2020.11.04

Friday 6th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated bluefish to 2.2.12 in F-32, F-33 and Rawhide:

  • This is a minor maintenance release with some minor new features
  • Most important is a fix for a crash in simple search
  • Python 3 compatibility has been further improved
  • Encoding detection in python files has been improved
  • Triple click now selects the line
  • On Mac OSX, Bluefish deals better with the new permission features
  • Using the correct language in the Bluefish user interface is fixed for certain languages on OSX
  • Several programming languages have improved syntax highlighting

  • Bluefish now works fine with Enchant2 for spell checking

Local Packages

• Updated bluefish to 2.2.12 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 8th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.44:

  • The DateTime::TimeZone->offset_as_string method now accepts an optional separator string

Monday 9th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Class-C3 to 0.35 in Rawhide:

  • Update bundled ExtUtils::HasCompiler to 0.022

  • Support PUREPERL_ONLY environment variable during installation

  • Fix no-XS test to not require newer Test::More that declared prereq

  • Drop optional Devel::Hide prereq

• Updated perl-DateTime to 1.53 in Rawhide:

  • Added a $dt->rfc3339 method, based on discussion in GH#109

• Updated perl-String-CRC32 to 2 in Rawhide:

  • Switch to XSLoader rather than DynaLoader (GH#5)

Local Packages

• Updated moin to 1.9.11:

  • CVE-2020-25074: Fix remote code execution via cache action

  • CVE-2020-15275: Fix malicious SVG attachment causing stored XSS vulnerability

  • See CHANGES for details of other changes

• Updated perl-Class-C3 to 0.35 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-DateTime to 1.53 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 10th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) in Rawhide

• Updated perl-Test-Signature (1.11) in Rawhide to use author-independent source URL

• Branched and built perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) for EPEL-8

• Branched and built perl-Test-Signature (1.11) for EPEL-8

Wednesday 11th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Algorithm-C3 to 0.11 in Rawhide:

  • Set metadata for static dependency list and install

  • Move repository to GitHub

  • Minor test clean-ups

  • Fix Makefile.PL to work for authors in perl 5.26+

• Updated perl-true to 1.0.2 in Rawhide:

  • Code clean-up

  • Update ppport.h from 3.44 → 3.62

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Algorithm-C3 to 0.11 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-true to 1.0.2 as per the Fedora version

Friday 13th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-JSON-MaybeXS to 1.004003 in Rawhide:

  • Fix another test that fails when JSON::XS is installed, but below version 3.0

Local Packages

• Updated perl-JSON-MaybeXS to 1.004003 as per the Fedora version

• Updated unrar to 6.00 beta 2

Saturday 14th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated libxml2 (2.9.10):

  • Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (Bug #1877788)

  • Build the Python extension with the PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro to make it compatible with Python 3.10 (Bug #1890878)

• Updated perl-HTML-SimpleLinkExtor to 1.273:

  • Module adopted by Nigel Horne (no code changes)

Wednesday 18th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated perl-PAR-Dist to 0.50:

  • Fix for Archive::Zip related test failures due to symlinks (CPAN RT#132067)

  • Create repo on GitHub, update metadata

• Updated perl-Pod-Simple to 3.42:

  • Drop EUMM version prereq (GH#130)

• Updated perl-Type-Tie to 0.015:

  • Document that Clone::clone will not work (CPAN RT#127576)

  • Set up Storable hooks to play nice with Storable::dclone

  • Support Hash::Util::FieldHash::Compat as an alternative to Hash::FieldHash because it seems to pass its tests better on Perl 5.8

Saturday 21st November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated python-crypto (2.6.1) in Rawhide to fix Python 3.10 compatibility (Bug #1897544)

Local Packages

• Updated c-ares to 1.17.1:

• Security:

  • Avoid read-heap-buffer-overflow in ares_parse_soa_reply found during fuzzing (GH#332, GH#333)

  • Avoid theoretical buffer overflow in RC4 loop comparison (GH#336)

  • Empty hquery->name could lead to invalid memory access (GH#367)

  • ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() could return a larger *naddrttls than was passed in (GH#371)

• Changes:

  • Update help information for adig, acountry, and ahost (GH#334)

  • Test Suite now uses dynamic system-assigned ports rather than hardcoded ports to prevent failures in containers (GH#346)

  • Detect remote DNS server does not support EDNS using rules from RFC 6891 (GH#244)

  • Source tree has been reorganized to use a more modern layout (GH#349)

  • Allow parsing of CAA Resource Record (GH#360)

• Bug fixes:

  • readaddrinfo bad sizeof() (GH#331)

  • Test cases should honour HAVE_WRITEV flag, not depend on WIN32 (GH#344)

  • FQDN with trailing period should be queried first (GH#345)

  • ares_getaddrinfo() was returning members of the struct as garbage values if unset, and was not honouring ai_socktype and ai_protocol hints (GH#343, GH#317)

  • ares_gethostbyname() with AF_UNSPEC and an IP address would fail (GH#204)

  • Properly document ares_set_local_ip4() uses host byte order (GH#368)

• Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.29:

  • Include test number in summary of failed non-fatal tests

  • Remove Net::DNS::SEC specific tests

  • Fix faulty test plan in t/08-recurse.t

Sunday 22nd November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Package-Stash to 0.39 in Rawhide:

  • Updated distribution metadata and packaging

  • Configuration phase now uses ExtUtils::HasCompiler

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20201120:

  • Updated for v5.33.4

• Updated perl-Moo to 2.004003:

  • Remove Module::Runtime prerequisite

  • Internal code clean-ups

  • Added test for conflicts in extensions wrapping 'has' and similar subs

• Updated perl-Package-Stash to 0.39 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 24th November 2020

Fedora Project

• Updated proftpd (1.3.7a) in Rawhide and EPEL-8 playground to include mod_unique_id

• Updated proftpd (1.3.6e) in EPEL-8 to include mod_unique_id (Bug #1901100)

Local Packages

• Updated proftpd (1.3.7a) to include mod_unique_id as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 25th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Moo to 2.004004:

  • Fix error location test when using core Carp on perl 5.8.9-5.10.1

Thursday 26th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated schily to 2020.11.25

  • m4 is now a build dependency

Monday 30th November 2020

Local Packages

• Updated perl-PPIx-Regexp to 0.076:

  • Attempt to correct detection of \K in nested assertions

  • Variable-length look-behind is version 5.029009
  • Look-behinds quantified longer than 255 characters are an error, and are made into unknown tokens or structures