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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2022-02

Paul's Blog Entries for February 2022

Tuesday 1st February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-GD to 2.76 in Rawhide:

    • Fix broken TIFF and AVIF support (Bug #2048953, CPAN RT#140910, GH#43)

    • Re-enable XBM support (always on)

    • Provide xbm magic support (a hack, for GD::Graph)

  • Updated perl-GDGraph (1.54) in Rawhide to fix logo_xbm_noext test (GH#1)

  • Updated perl-Math-BigInt-GMP to 1.6010 in F-35:

    • Add static gmp_version() function (GH#4)

    • Make t/01load.t display the output from gmp_version()

    • Sync test files with Math-BigInt

  • Branched and built libtomcrypt (1.18.2) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built milter-greylist (4.6.4) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built milter-regex (2.7) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-MetaCPAN-Client (2.029000) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Pod-Strip (1.100) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-Spelling (0.25) for EPEL-9

Wednesday 2nd February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.272 in Rawhide:

    • Drop prerequisite for IO::String on Perl 5.8+

  • Added a README.md to python-crypto to make it clear that it is deprecated and unmaintained upstream

  • Branched and built bluefish (2.2.12) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Finance-Quote (1.51) for EPEL-8

  • Branched and built perl-Web-Scraper (0.38) for EPEL-8 and EPEL-9

  • Branched and built rbldnsd (0.998b) for EPEL-9

  • Cleaned up and rebuilt bluefish (2.2.12) for Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.272 as per the Fedora version

  • Cleaned up and rebuilt bluefish (2.2.12) as per the Fedora version

Friday 4th February 2022

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot:

    • Updated dovecot to 2.3.18:

      • Removed mail_cache_lookup_finished event: this event wasn't especially useful, but it increased CPU usage significantly

      • fts: Don't index inline base64 encoded content in FTS indexes using the generic tokenizer; this reduces the FTS index sizes by removing input that is very unlikely to be searched for

      • lmtp: Session IDs are now preserved through proxied connections, so LMTP sessions can be tracked; this slightly changes the LMTP session ID format by appending ":Tn" (transaction), ":Pn" (proxy connection) and ":Rn" (recipient) counters after the session ID prefix

      • Events now have "reason_code" field, which can provide a list of reasons why the event is happening (see https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/event_reasons/)

      • New events are added (see https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/list_of_events/)

      • fts: Added fts_header_excludes and fts_header_includes settings to specify which headers to index (see https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/fts-plugin#plugin-fts-setting-fts-header-excludes for configuration details)

      • fts: Initialize the textcat language detection library only once per process; this can reduce CPU usage if fts_languages setting has multiple languages listed and service indexer-worker { service_count } isn't 1

        • Only applies when using libfts

      • lib-storage: Reduced CPU usage significantly for some operations that accessed lots of emails (e.g. fetching all flags in a folder, SORT, ...)

      • lib: DOVECOT_PREREQ() - Add micro version that enables compiling external plugins against different versions of Dovecot

      • lmtp: Added new lmtp_verbose_replies setting that makes errors sent to the LMTP client much more verbose with details about why exactly backend proxy connections or commands are failing

      • submission: Support implicit SASL EXTERNAL with submission_client_workarounds=implicit-auth-external; this allows automatically logging in when SSL client certificate is present

      • *-login: Statistics were disabled if stats process connection was lost

      • auth: Authentication master user login fails with SCRAM-* SASL mechanisms

      • auth: With auth_cache_verify_password_with_worker=yes, passdb extra fields in the auth cache got lost

      • doveadm: Fixed crash if zlib_save_level setting was specified, but zlib_save was unset (v2.3.15 regression)

      • doveadm: Proxying can panic when flushing print output (v2.3.17 regression)

      • Fixes: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 865 (io_loop_destroy): assertion failed: (ioloop == current_ioloop)

      • doveadm: stats add --group-by parameter didn't work

      • fts: Using email-address fts tokenizer could result in excessive memory usage with garbage email input, which could cause the indexer-worker processes to fail due to reaching the VSZ memory size limit

        • Only applies when using libfts

      • imap: A SEARCH command timing out while fts returns indexes may timeout returning "NO [SERVERBUG]", while it should return "NO [INUSE]" instead

      • imap: LIST-EXTENDED doesn't return STATUS for all folders; sending LIST .. RETURN (SUBSCRIBED STATUS (...)) did not return STATUS for folders that are not subscribed when they have a child folder that is subscribed as mandated by IMAP RFCs

      • imapc: Mailbox vsize calculation crashed with Panic: file index-mailbox-size.c: line 344 (index_mailbox_vsize_hdr_add_missing): assertion failed: (mails_left > 0)

      • indexer: If indexer-worker crashes, the request it was processing gets stuck in the indexer process; this stops indexing for the folder until indexer process is restarted (v2.3.14 regression)

      • indexer: Process was slowly leaking memory for each indexing request

      • lib-event: Unnamed events were wrongly filtered out for event/metric filters like "event=abc OR something_independent_of_event_name"

      • lib-index: 64-bit big endian CPUs handle last_used field in dovecot.index.cache wrong

      • lib-ssl-iostream: Fix buggy OpenSSL error handling without assert-crashing; if there is no error available, log it as an error instead of crashing

      • The previous fix for this in v2.3.11 was incomplete

      • Fixes: Panic: file istream-openssl.c: line 51 (i_stream_ssl_read_real): assertion failed: (errno != 0)

      • lmtp: Out-of-memory issues can happen when proxying large messages to LMTP backend servers that accept the message data too slowly

      • master: HAProxy header parsing has read buffer overflow if provided header size is invalid; this happens only if inet_listener { haproxy=yes } is configured and only if the remote IP address is in haproxy_trusted_networks

      • old_stats: Plugin kept increasing memory usage, which became noticeable with long-running imap sessions

      • stats: Dynamically adding same metric multiple times causes multiple stats

      • submission-login: Authentication does not accept OAUTH2 token (or other very long credentials) because it considers the line to be too long

      • submission-login: Process can crash if HELO is pipelined with an invalid domain

      • submission-proxy: Don't use SASL-IR if it would make the AUTH command line longer than 512 bytes

      • submission: Service would crash if relay server authentication failed

      • virtual: FTS search in a virtual folder could crash if there are duplicate mailbox GUIDs; this mainly happened when user had both INBOX and INBOX/INBOX folders and the namespace prefix was INBOX/

      • Fixes: Panic: file hash.c: line 252 (hash_table_insert_node): assertion failed: (opcode == HASH_TABLE_OP_UPDATE)

      • virtual: If mailbox opening fails, the backend mailbox is leaked and process crashes when client disconnects

      • Fixes: Panic: file mail-user.c: line 232 (mail_user_deinit): assertion failed: ((*user)->refcount == 1)

      • virtual: Searching headers in virtual folders didn't always use full-text search indexes, if fts_enforced=no or body

    • Updated pigeonhole to 0.5.18:

      • duplicate: Users without a home directory can crash with Sieve when using duplicate database (v2.3.17 regression)

      • imapsieve: When mail was expunged when processing imapsieve events, a crash could occur; fixes:

      • Panic: file mail-index-map.c: line 558 (mail_index_map_lookup_seq_range): assertion failed: (first_uid > 0)

      • managesieve-login: Proxy didn't support forwarding the forward_* passdb fields

      • redirect: Sieve would crash if redirect after keep-equivalent action failed

      • sieve: Interpreter crashes when the Sieve index extension is used with index zero

      • vnd.dovecot.filter: Envelope sender string may become corrupted when Sieve scripts are using vnd.dovecot.filter; this could end up corrupting mbox's From line and return wrong envelope sender string in Sieve tests

Sunday 6th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Branched and built perl-Finance-Quote (1.51) for EPEL-9

Local Packages

Monday 7th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 4.019 in Rawhide:

    • Bump encoder and decoder dependencies to 4.019

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 4.019 in Rawhide:

    • Fix build issue with latest perl

    • Update bundled zstd to 1.5.1 (note: this package uses system zstd)

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 4.019 in Rawhide:

    • Fix build issue with latest perl

    • Update bundled zstd to 1.5.1 (note: this package uses system zstd)

  • Branched and built perl-Crypt-Blowfish (2.14) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Crypt-CBC (3.04) for EPEL-9

Wednesday 9th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave (3.3.111) in F-35, F-36 and Rawhide to address excessive CPU usage under Wayland (Bug #2052437, GH#117)

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave (3.3.111) as per the Fedora version

  • Updated libidn (1.38) to rebuild for java-17-openjdk as system JDK in Rawhide

Friday 11th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Branched and built perl-Data-Buffer (0.04) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Digest-BubbleBabble (0.02) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Crypt-DSA (1.17) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-IO-Socket-Socks (0.74) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Math-GMP (2.24) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Net-SSH-Perl (2.14) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-String-CRC32 (2.100) for EPEL-9

Local Packages

  • Fedora 36 repo branched from development

  • Updated curl (7.81.0) to suggest libcurl-minimal in curl-minimal so as to reduce the chances of the full libcurl being pulled in

Tuesday 15th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perltidy to 20220217 in F-36 and Rawhide (see CHANGES.md for details)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20220217 as per the Fedora perltidy package

Wednesday 16th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated geoipupdate to 4.9.0 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • The client now sets the User-Agent header

    • The error handling has been improved

  • Updated perl-Test-File to 1.992 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Fix race condition in tests for mtime (GH#29)

Local Packages

  • Updated geoipupdate to 4.9.0 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-File to 1.992 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 17th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 4.020 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Bump encoder and decoder dependencies to 4.020

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 4.020 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Fix "panic: free from wrong pool" errors on threaded builds

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 4.020 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Fix "panic: free from wrong pool" errors on threaded builds

RPM Fusion Project

  • Updated xv (3.10a) in F-36 and Rawhide to fix compatibility with Jasper library version 3 (which is now in Rawhide)

Local Packages

  • Updated libxslt to 1.1.35

    • Includes fix for CVE-2021-30560: use-after-free in xsltApplyTemplates

    • See NEWS for full details

  • Updated xv (3.10a) to sync with RPM Fusion build

Friday 18th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 4.021 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Bump encoder and decoder dependencies to 4.021

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 4.021 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.019 on threaded debugging perls

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 4.021 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.019 on threaded debugging perls

Saturday 19th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 4.022 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Bump encoder and decoder dependencies to 4.022

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 4.022 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Better logic to make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.019 on threaded debugging perls

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 4.022 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Better logic to make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.019 on threaded debugging perls

Sunday 20th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.878 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Improved suppressing the PDL CLONE warning; piddles should not be naively copied into new threads
    • Added fast channel implementations optimized for non-Unicode strings:

      • MCE::Channel::MutexFast

      • MCE::Channel::SimpleFast

      • MCE::Channel::ThreadsFast

    • The main difference is that these lack freeze-thaw serialization

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.876 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Improved suppressing the PDL CLONE warning; piddles should not be naively copied into new threads

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 4.023 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Bump encoder and decoder dependencies to 4.023

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 4.023 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.015-4.019 on threaded debugging perls

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 4.023 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using Sereal::Decoder 4.015-4.019 on threaded debugging perls

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.878 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.876 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20220220:

    • Updated for v5.35.9

Monday 21st February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope to 0.26 in F-36 and Rawhide (no changes)

  • Updated perl-Package-Stash to 0.40 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Update bundled version of ExtUtils::HasCompiler, for new new Apple include paths

Local Packages

Tuesday 22nd February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Retired tidyp from F-36 and Rawhide:

    • The upstream maintainer has stopped work on tidyp, and has archived the upstream repository in a read-only state: https://github.com/petdance/tidyp

    • The tidyp package existed to be a back-end of perl-HTML-Tidy, which has also stopped development upstream: https://github.com/petdance/html-tidy

    • The perl-HTML-Tidy package has also been retired in Fedora

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030519 in F-36 and Rawhide (see Changes for details)

Wednesday 23rd February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.24 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • Fix for broken <archlibexp>/CORE/keywords.h test on system macOS (GH#5)

    • 'finally' added with 5.35.8 (CPAN RT#141406)

  • Branched and built perl-Validation-Class (7.900057) for EPEL-9

  • Did the final post-bootstrap rebuild of perl-Type-Tiny (1.012004) for EPEL-9

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.24 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated unrar to 6.11 beta 1

Thursday 24th February 2022

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (7.81.0) to enable IDN support in libcurl-minimal, not only in libcurl (full version)

  • Rebuilt perl-Net-DNS (1.33) to sync with Rawhide

Friday 25th February 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302189 in F-36 and Rawhide:

    • GH#890, GH#891: Methods used in overload should always be invoked with 3 parameters

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302189 as per the Fedora version

Monday 28th February 2022

RPM Fusion Project

Local Packages

  • Updated xv (3.10a) as per the RPM Fusion version

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