PaulHowarth/Blog/2026-03-01

Sunday 1st March 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260227.001 in F-44 and Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-02-27

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.219 in F-44 and Rawhide:

    • Add PERL_UNUSED_DECL for trace to silence clang warning

    • Fix indentation in Lzma.xs that triggers a clang warning

    • Remove vestigial references to Pod::Markdown (GH#14)

    • Fix POD typo

    • Document that flush returns LZMA_STREAM_END on success, rather than LZMA_OK (GH#16)

    • Remove unused constants (GH#17)

    • Documentation improvements (GH#15)

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.221 in F-44 and Rawhide:

    • zlib 1.3.2: Update references to zlib 1.3.1 to use zlib 1.3.2

    • zlib 1.3.2: Add "Perl_crz" prefix to "z_errmsg" (GH#32)

    • Fix POD typo

    • Version number wrong in 2.220 Changes file (GH#38)

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.039000 in F-44 and Rawhide:

    • Add more types that can be scrolled (GH#134)

    • Fix 'all' fetching from CVE and example scripts (GH#135)

  • Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.27 in EPEL-8, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.1, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10 to fix mishandling of leading zeros in IP CIDR addresses (Bug #2443386, CVE-2021-4456)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.219 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.221 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.039000 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-TimeDate to 2.34:

    • Increase coverage in documentation

    • Refactor: Extract _build_lookups helper, remove hash-building duplication

    • Correct language data bugs and minor code review fixes
    • Fix up utf8 and add tests

    • Use Dist::Zilla for the distro

    • Rebase: Apply review feedback on GH#49 and GH#52

    • Fix: Uncomment Indian Standard timezone (IST)

    • Feature: Support boost C++ timestamp format (%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S.%f)

    • Correct typos across documentation and comments

    • Stop using 'use vars'

    • Remove limitation from Date::Parse

    • Create Arabic.pm

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