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Saturday 24th February 2024

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Expect to 1.36 in F-40 and Rawhide:

  • Made timeouts optional and added qr// regex support

Local Packages

• Updated c-ares to 1.27.0:

• This is a security, feature, and bugfix release
• Security:

  • Reading malformatted '/etc/resolv.conf', '/etc/nsswitch.conf' or the 'HOSTALIASES' file could result in a crash (CVE-2024-25629, https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-mg26-v6qh-x48q)

• Features:

  • New function 'ares_queue_active_queries()' to retrieve number of in-flight queries (GH#712)

  • New function 'ares_queue_wait_empty()' to wait for the number of in-flight queries to reach zero (GH#710)

  • New 'ARES_FLAG_NO_DEFLT_SVR' for 'ares_init_options()' to return a failure if no DNS servers can be found rather than attempting to use '127.0.0.1'; this also introduces a new ares status code of 'ARES_ENOSERVER' (GH#713)

• Changes:

  • EDNS packet size should be 1232 as per DNS Flag Day (GH#705)

• Bugfixes:

  • Windows DNS suffix search list memory leak (GH#711)

  • Fix warning due to ignoring return code of 'write()' (GH#709)

  • CMake: Don't override target output locations if not top-level (GH#708)

  • Fix building c-ares without thread support (GH#700)

• Updated perl-Expect to 1.36 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20240223:

  • Updated for v5.39.8

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