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=== Sunday 24th December 2023 ===

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `c-ares` to 1.24.0 (Fedora 30 onwards):
 . This is a feature and bugfix release
 . Features:
  * Add support for IPv6 link-local DNS servers; nameserver formats can now accept the %iface suffix, and a new `ares_get_servers_csv()` function was added to return servers that can contain the link-local interface name
 . Changes:
  * Unbundle `GoogleTest` for test cases; package maintainers will now need to require `GoogleTest` (`GMock`) as a build dependency if building tests (new `GoogleTest` versions require C++14 or later)
  * Replace nameserver parsing code to use new memory-safe functions
  * Replace the `sortlist` parser with new memory-safe functions
  * Various warning fixes and dead code removal
 . Bug Fixes:
  * Old Linux versions require `POSIX_C_SOURCE` or `_GNU_SOURCE` to compile with thread safety support
  * A non-responsive DNS server that caused timeouts wouldn't increment the failure count, which would lead to other servers not being tried (regression introduced in 1.22.0)
  * Some projects that depend on `c-ares` expect invalid parameter option values passed into `ares_init_options()` to simply be ignored; this behaviour has been restored
  * On linux, `getrandom()` can fail if the kernel doesn't support the syscall: fall back to another random source
  * `ares_cancel()` when performing `ares_gethostbyname()` or `ares_getaddrinfo()` with `AF_UNSPEC`, if called after one address class was returned but before the other address class, would return `ARES_SUCCESS` rather than `ARES_ECANCELLED`
 . Note: building without `cmake` is broken in this release ([[https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/670|GH#670]]), which is why builds for releases older than Fedora 30 are unavailable


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