Sunday 1st February 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 to 2.217 in Rawhide:

  • No functional changes

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.217 in Rawhide:

  • Test updates, no functional changes

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.217 in Rawhide:

  • No functional changes

• Updated perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 to 1.91 in Rawhide:

  • ~11% performance improvement on 64-bit systems (reduced masking overhead)

  • Added GitHub Actions CI workflows

  • Code reformatted with perltidy

• Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.217 in Rawhide:

  • Refresh zipdetails from https://github.com/pmqs/zipdetails

  • Delete GZIP environment variable before running interop tests (GH#24)

  • IO::Compress @2.215: t/006zip.t failed due to missing test files (GH#67)

  • Fix version check in 000prereq.t

  • Enhance _dosToUnixTime to handle zero and invalid datetime values; add tests for edge cases (GH#65)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 to 2.217 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.217 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.217 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.217 as per the Fedora version

Monday 2nd February 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated bluefish to 2.4.0 in Rawhide:

  • Bluefish 2.4.0 has some new features and many small improvements; it is no longer a 2.2 release because backwards compatibility with the 2.0 series of Bluefish has been removed
  • If you upgrade from 2.0 straight to 2.4, your config files and project files are no longer 100% correctly loaded

  • Starting from 2.4, Bluefish will no longer place config files in ~/.bluefish

    • On Linux it will be ~/.config and ~/.local/

    • On Windows it will be LocalAppData and RoamingAppData

    • On OSX it will be ~/Library/Application Support

  • The biggest new feature, still experimental, is that you can edit two documents side-by-side

  • You can change opening and ending tags in XML or HTML simultaneously if you hit [ctrl][t]

  • You can more easily save the current contents to a template
  • For new users, and also active in new projects, is a UI selection dialog, where you can choose between a UI optimised for web development, programming or just have everything enabled or disabled; this will help new Bluefish users to customize Bluefish in an easier way
  • There are a few fixes as well:
    • Selecting lines by dragging in the margin works more reliably
    • Paste special works more reliably
    • Line comments in Python are better detected, which is visible in the syntax highlighting
    • The toggle comment function is improved
    • The Windows build has better error messages when starting external commands fails

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.217 in Rawhide:

  • Delete XZ environment variable before running interop tests

  • Rework workflow to automatically detect and use all the versions of perl available

Local Packages

• Updated bluefish to 2.4.0 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.67 (no functional changes)

• Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.217 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 3rd February 2026

Fedora Project

• Branched and built milter-greylist (4.6.4) for EPEL-10.1 and EPEL-10

• Updated miniz to 3.1.1 in Rawhide:

  • Declare function wrappers as inline static to fix warnings

• Updated perltidy to 20260204 in Rawhide (see CHANGES.md for details)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.218:

  • Fix for regression of GH#34

• Updated perl-Data-Alias to 1.29:

  • Fix compatibility with perl 5.43.8

• Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20260204 as per the Fedora perltidy package

Thursday 5th February 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Mail-Message to 4.04 in Rawhide:

  • Fixed date field parsing regression (GH#28)

Friday 6th February 2026

Local Packages

• Branched the development repository for Fedora 44

• Updated curl (8.18.0) to fix rubygem-ethon FTBFS in Rawhide (Bug #2405328)

• Updated dovecot (2.4.2) to add /var/lib/dovecot to tmpfiles for image mode

Saturday 7th February 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260203.001 in F-44 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 2026-01-31

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

Tuesday 10th February 2026

Local Packages

• Updated unrar to 7.20

Wednesday 11th February 2026

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MIME-tools to 5.517 in F-44 and Rawhide:

  • Handle MIME parameters of the form param= better (i.e. a parameter with no value at all); it's treated the same as param="" rather than aborting the parse

  • Diagnose additional types of malformed MIME as ambiguous; specifically, an empty boundary parameter like boundary= or boundary="" is treated as ambiguous

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MIME-tools to 5.517 as per the Fedora version