Monday 9th February 2026
Local Packages
Updated perl-Net-Server to 2.017:
Address IO::Socket rudely force-importing random symbols
Warn-clean IO::Socket::INET6 "Subroutine redefined" spewage
- Various patches generated with the help of Grok4 xAI
- Various test suite framework improvements
- Make test suites return non-zero upon failure
- Fix IPv6 pre-check for tests
- Timeout test server if client crashes, instead of rudely mooching on the listen port forever in the background
Warn-clean for older MakeMaker, such as 6.30
- Fix POD errors
- Allow static Proto methods to be imported as normal routines
Create Net::Server::IP compatibility wrapper module
Honour {ipv6_package} config preference more reliably
GetAddrInfoFlags compatibility patch for systems with spoofed networks on loopback interfaces using IO::Socket::IP
Now IPv4 and IPv6 finally work with OpenVZ or fake loopback or venet0 or even on IPv6-only machines even without public routability for that AF_* Address Family (these used to fail)
- Handle special IPv6 behaviours, like OpenBSD and WinXP
Emulate IO::Socket::IP {V6Only} behaviour for IO:Socket::INET6
Fall back to IO::Socket::INET if no IPv6 module available
- Various SSLEAY fixes:
- Add more SSLEAY tests to help with debugging
Fixed errors on older Net::SSLeay < 1.49
Fix tied SYSREAD $scalar input syntax instead of only ref \$scalar sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET
Fix SSLEAY->read_until logic
Fixed some errors with newer Net::SSLeay and OpenSSL 3.x:
167772454. error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading
167772567. error:0A000197:SSL routines::shutdown while in init
- Get test suite to pass cleanly on all variations tested:
- Linux Kernel: 2.6.18, 3.10.0, 4.18.0, 5.14.0, 6.2.16, 6.8.0
- Flavour: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 42, RHEL5/6/7/8/9
Windows: Cygwin, MinGW64, WinXP, Win7, Win10, Win11, GitBash
- Other OS: OpenBSD, Darwin, MacOSX, FreeBSD
- OpenSSL 0.9.8e, 1.0.1e, 1.0.2k, 1.1.1k, 3.2.2, 3.5.1
Hypervisor: OpenVZ, KVM, VirtualBox, VirtIO, VMWare, Docker
- Dual-Stack Networks: IPv4, IPv6, IPv*, IPv4-Only, IPv6-Only
- Perl: 5.8.8 5.10.1 5.16.3 5.26.3 5.32.1 5.34.1 5.36.0 5.38.2 5.40.2
Net::SSLeay: 1.30, 1.35, 1.55, 1.88, 1.94
Socket: 1.78, 1.82, 1.97, 1.99, 2.010, 2.027, 2.031, 2.040
Socket6: None, 0.19, 0.23, 0.28, 0.29
IO::Socket::IP: None, 0.21, 0.38, 0.41
IO::Socket::INET6: None 2.51 2.56 2.66 2.67 2.69 2.72 2.73