Paul's Blog Entries for November 2023
Wednesday 1st November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.031000 in Rawhide:
- Fix reverse-dependencies distributions check
In examples, 'use Data::Printer' instead of shortened 'use DDP'
Local Packages
Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.031000 as per the Fedora version
Thursday 2nd November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231102.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231102
Local Packages
Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma (2.206) for xz 5.4.5 in Fedora 40 onwards
Monday 6th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-DateTime to 1.65 in Rawhide:
Fix builds on macOS with Perls before 5.22.0; this seems to have the same issue as Windows on older Perls (GH#141)
Local Packages
Updated perl-DateTime to 1.65 as per the Fedora version
Updated sendmail (8.17.2) to drop use of libdb from F-40, EL-10 onwards (Bug #1781181)
Tuesday 7th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.084 in Rawhide:
Local Packages
- Fedora 39 released
Updated perl-DateTime-Locale to 1.40:
- Rebuilt all locale data with the data from CLDR 44.0.1
Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.084 as per the Fedora version
Updated sendmail (8.17.2) to keep using libdb in all Fedora releases for now
Thursday 9th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-DBM-Deep to 2.0018 in Rawhide:
- Tiny documentation and metadata fixes to make sure people go to the correct issue tracker
Local Packages
Updated perl-DBM-Deep to 2.0018 as per the Fedora version
Updated unrar source to 7.0.3, still 7.00 beta 1
Friday 10th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231110.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231110
Monday 13th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-DBM-Deep to 2.0019 in Rawhide:
- Improvement so that when you try to put too much data in you get a useful error, and don't corrupt the database
Local Packages
Updated perl-DBM-Deep to 2.0019 as per the Fedora version
Tuesday 14th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231114.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231114
Wednesday 15th November 2023
Local Packages
Updated c-ares to 1.22.0:
- This is a feature release with some significant internal changes
- Features:
ares_reinit() is now implemented to re-read any system configuration and immediately apply to an existing ares channel
The adig command line program has been rewritten and its format now more closely matches that of BIND's dig utility
- The new DNS message parser and writer functions have now been made public
- RFC9460 HTTPS and SVCB records are now supported
- RFC6698 TLSA records are now supported
- The server list is now internally dynamic and can be changed without impacting existing queries
- Hosts file processing is now cached until the file is detected to be changed to speed up repetitive lookups of large hosts files
- Changes:
- Internally all DNS messages are now written using the new DNS writing functions
- EDNS is now enabled by default
- Internal clean-ups in function prototypes
- Bug Fixes:
- Randomize retry penalties to prevent thundering herd issues when dns servers throttle requests
Fix Windows build error for missing if_indextoname()
Sunday 19th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231118.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231118
Monday 20th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-ExtUtils-CppGuess to 0.27 in Rawhide:
- Support C++20 and C++23 standards, and vendored version output
Local Packages
Tuesday 21st November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Getopt-Long-Descriptive to 0.112 in Rawhide:
This version removes the redundant option warning, which is now provided by Getopt::Long v2.55 and later (which is now required); as before, this will someday become fatal
Local Packages
Updated perl-Software-License to 0.104005:
- Explictly require perl v5.12.0, which was already effectively required because of upstream libraries
- Update author metadata
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Local Packages
Updated c-ares to 1.22.1:
- This is a bugfix release
Fix /etc/hosts processing performance with all entries using same IP address; large hosts files using the same IP address for all entries could use exponential time
- Fix typos in manpages
Fix OpenWatcom building
Thursday 23rd November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.53 in Rawhide:
Two casts for -Wformat (GH#50)
Add --skip-empty to csv2xlsx
Add --font and --font-size to csv2xlsx
Fix skip_empty_rows ("skip") and trailing newlines (GH#52)
Fix comment in last line (CPAN RT#150501)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.53 as per the Fedora version
Friday 24th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Sub-Exporter to 0.991 in Rawhide:
- Make the requirement for perl v5.12.0 explicit; previously, it was only implicit because of prerequisites
Local Packages
Updated perl-Sub-Exporter to 0.991 as per the Fedora version
Saturday 25th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231125.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231125
Monday 27th November 2023
Local Packages
Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.41:
- Accept inbound Ethernet "Jumbo" UDP packet
- Facilitate decoding of mDNS/SD packets with compressed RDATA
Update Parameters.pm to resync with IANA registry
Fix error trying to use Socket macro SO_REUSEPORT in Windows (CPAN RT#150550)
Tuesday 28th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-IO-Tty to 1.18 in Rawhide:
Address Freebsd build issue: make function checks more robust within shared lib (GH#35)
Local Packages
Updated libxml2 to 2.12.1:
- Regressions:
- hash: Fix deletion of entries during scan
- parser: Only enable SAX2 if there are SAX2 element handlers
- Build fixes:
autotools: Stop checking for snprintf
dict: Fix '__thread' before 'static'
Fix: pthread weak references in globals.c
- tests: Fix build with older MSVC
- These fixes allow a successful build on EL-7 too, which wasn't possible with 2.12.0
Updated perl-IO-Tty to 1.18 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 29th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302197 in Rawhide:
- Add ability to attach timestamps to trace objects via API or environment variable
RPM Fusion Project
Rebuilt xv (4.2.0) for the new Jasper in Rawhide
Local Packages
Updated nmap (7.93) to use pcre2 instead of the deprecated pcre from F-40 onwards (Bug #2128336)
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302197 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-XML-LibXML (2.0209) to restore compatibility with libxml2-2.12.0 (Bug #2251181)
Rebuilt xv (4.2.0) for the new Jasper in Rawhide
Thursday 30th November 2023
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20231130.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 20231130
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20231129:
- Updated for v5.34.2, v5.36.2, v5.38.1
Updated unrar to 7.00 beta 2
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