PaulHowarth/Blog/2023-09-14

Thursday 14th September 2023

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Crypt-DES (2.07) in F-39 and Rawhide to use the new BSD-Systemics SPDX license id (PR#2)

  • Branched and built perl-Data-Visitor (0.32) for EPEL-8 and EPEL-9

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.889 in F-39 and Rawhide:

    • Add Android support
    • Revert "defer signal-handling in MCE::Channel (send2 method)"

    • Improve mutex synchronize (a.k.a. enter) with guard capability

    • Fix mutex re-entrant lock on the Windows platform
    • Add mutex guard_lock method

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.886 in F-39 and Rawhide:

    • Add Android support; this required moving MCE::Shared::Base::Common out of MCE::Shared::Base to separate file MCE::Shared::Common

    • Bump MCE dependency to 1.889

  • Branched and built perl-Tie-ToObject (0.03) for EPEL-8 and EPEL-9

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (8.2.1) to fix HTTP headers eating all memory (CVE-2023-38039)

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.889 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.886 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Term-Table to 0.017:

    • Remove 'Importer' dependency

  • Updated perl-Test2-Suite to 0.000156:

    • Fix typo in POD for Test2::Util::Importer

  • Updated perl-version to 0.9930:

    • Permit a colon after a vstring, thus allowing an attrlist to follow a version declaration on a 'class' statement (GH#20891)

    • Simplify and fix w.r.t. locale handling
    • Make tests not fail when path to dist includes "panic"


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