Paul's Blog Entries for March 2024
Friday 1st March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope to 0.28 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Add optional prereqs to metadata to help prereq analysis tools (CPAN RT#151992)
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240229.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update for 20240229
Updated perl-IO-Zlib to 1.15 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Specify license in module metadata
Local Packages
New package perl-Variable-OnDestruct (0.07)
Updated nmap to 7.94 (see CHANGELOG for details)
zenmap now requires Python 3
Required system lua version is now 5.4 if not bundling it
Provide ncat in nmap-ncat for convenience (Bug #2214073)
I added a patch to fix finding zenmap messages files (GH#2718, GH#2789)
Updated perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope to 0.28 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-IO-Zlib to 1.15 as per the Fedora version
Updated unrar to 7.00
Sunday 3rd March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240302.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update for 20240302
Tuesday 5th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-ExtUtils-CChecker to 0.12 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Document the '->define' method
- Overall module style updates
'use v5.14' in all files
Use 'package NAME VER' syntax
Use 'Test2::V0' instead of 'Test::More' + 'Test::Fatal'
Friday 8th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240308.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update for 20240308
Updated perl-Expect to 1.37 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Fix to timeout code
Local Packages
Updated perl-Expect to 1.37 as per the Fedora version
Monday 11th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-PPI to 1.278 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Add support for new octal number syntax (GH#295)
Local Packages
Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma against xz 5.6.1 (Bug #2267598)
Updated perl-PPI to 1.278 as per the Fedora version
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Expect to 1.38 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Fix to fix to timeout code
Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.031001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Show a real error for internal errors (GH#121)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Expect to 1.38 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.031001 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240313.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update for 20240313
Thursday 14th March 2024
Fedora Project
Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma (2.209) in Rawhide for ELN (GH#182)
Monday 18th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated bluefish to 2.2.15 in F-38, F-39, F-40 and Rawhide:
- Bluefish 2.2.15 is a minor maintenance release
- New feature: it can highlight the indenting level with a vertical line, which is very useful during python programming and helps with a lot more programming languages
- Fix zencoding for python releases newer than 3.12
- Add a retry button when opening files from a remote location
- Tiny performance improvement when scrolling
- Fix a bug in the bookmarks function and the visible indenting function that potentially could lead to a crash
- The perl syntax detection has been greatly improved
- YAML syntax detection has been added
- The code has several fixes to make it compile on modern Mac OSX releases and to make it compile with the clang compiler
Local Packages
Updated bluefish to 2.2.15 as per the Fedora version
Updated libxml2 to 2.12.6:
- Regressions:
parser: Fix detection of duplicate attributes in XML namespace
xmlreader: Fix xmlTextReaderConstEncoding
html: Fix htmlCreatePushParserCtxt with encoding
xmllint: Return error code if XPath returns empty nodeset
Tuesday 19th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Data-UUID to 1.227 in F-38, F-39, F-40, Rawhide and EPEL-7:
- New maintainer, GTERMARS
Add basic GitHub Actions setup for testing
- Typo corrections in POD
Eliminated use of state/node files in temporary directory (CVE-2013-4184)
Updated perl-Variable-Magic to 0.64 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- This is a maintenance release; the code contains no functional change
Contributing guidelines are now listed in the new CONTRIBUTING file
Fix for t/18-opinfo.t broken under blead (CPAN RT#151104)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Data-UUID to 1.227 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Variable-Magic to 0.64 as per the Fedora version
Thursday 21st March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240321.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update for 20240321
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20240320:
- Updated for v5.39.8
Friday 22nd March 2024
Local Packages
Updated perl-Object-HashBase to 0.013:
Add support for Class::XSAccessor when it is installed
- Documentation fixes
Sunday 24th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20240323.001 in F-40 and Rawhide:
- Data update to 20240323
Monday 25th March 2024
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.119 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Remove FST_DO_MISALIGNED_OPS
Update lz4 to current version from GitHub
Change LZ4_compress to LZ4_compress_default
Update libghw.c/.h to latest upstream version
Fix for -Wsign-compare in fstapi.c
- Security fixes for GHW
Fix left shift of a negative number warning in fstapi.c
- Fix ctrl-A behaviour for SST filter entry
Fix for bad shmat return value in main.c
Local Packages
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.119 as per the Fedora version
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