PaulHowarth/Blog/2024-10-14

Monday 14th October 2024

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Module-Install-Repository to (0.08) in Rawhide:

  • Support git remotes named 'github'

  • Remove dependencies bundled in inc/

• Updated proftpd (1.3.8b) in Rawhide to drop support for EL-7 and similarly old Fedora releases

Local Packages

• Updated c-ares to 1.34.1:

• This is a feature and bugfix release
• Features:

  • adig: Read arguments from adigrc (GH#856)

  • Add new pending write callback optimization via 'ares_set_pending_write_cb' (GH#857)

  • New function 'ares_process_fds()' (GH#875)

  • Failed servers should be probed rather than redirecting queries, which could cause unexpected latency (GH#877)

  • adig: Rework command line arguments to mimic dig from bind (GH#890)

  • Add new method for overriding network functions 'ares_set_socket_function_ex()' to properly support all new functionality (GH#894)

  • Fix regression with custom socket callbacks due to DNS cookie support (GH#895)

  • ares_socket: Set IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT on ares_set_local_ip* tcp sockets (GH#887)

  • URI parser/writer for ares_set_servers_csv()/ares_get_servers_csv() (GH#882)

• Changes:

  • Connection handling modularization (GH#857, GH#876)

  • Expose library/utility functions to tools (GH#860)

  • Remove 'ares__' prefix, just use 'ares_' for internal functions (GH#872)

• Bugfixes:

  • Fix: Potential WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN redefinition (GH#869)

  • Fix googletest v1.15 compatibility (GH#874)

  • Fix pkgconfig thread dependencies (GH#884)

• Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.66:

  • Bundled Test::More failed with perl 5.41.x (GH#12)

  • Possible precedence problem between ! and string eq (GH#13)

  • Silence clang warnings (GH#10)