PaulHowarth/Blog/2025-04-11

Friday 11th April 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Apache-Session-Browseable to 1.3.15 in Rawhide:

    • Improve Redis driver performance

    • Implement searchOn/deleteIfLowerThan into Redis

    • Prefer Redis::Fast

Local Packages

  • Updated c-ares to 1.34.5:

  • This is a security release
  • Security:
  • Changes:
    • Restore Windows XP support (GH#958)

  • Bugfixes:
    • A missing mutex initialization would make busy polling for configuration changes (platforms other than Windows, Linux, MacOS) eat too much CPU (GH#974)

    • Pkgconfig may be generated wrong for static builds in relation to '-pthread' (GH#965)

    • Localhost resolution can fail if only one address family is in '/etc/hosts' (GH#947)

  • Updated libgpg-error to 1.53 (https://dev.gnupg.org/T7385)

    • Version 1.53 fixes a regression introduced in version 1.52
  • Changes in version 1.52:
    • The KEY_WOW64_xxKEY flags can now be passed to the Registry read functions

    • In the spawn functions, care about closefrom/close call being interrupted

    • New command --getreg for gpg-error on Windows

    • New simple string list API
    • New API for name value files
    • Add a Windows Registry emulation for Unix
  • Interface changes relative to the 1.51 release:
    • New function gpgrt_w32_reg_query_string (Windows only)

    • New types: gpgrt_strlist_t, gpgrt_nvc_t, gpgrt_nve_t

    • New constants: GPGRT_STRLIST_APPEND, GPGRT_STRLIST_WIPE, GPGRT_NVC_WIPE, GPGRT_NVC_PRIVKEY, GPGRT_NVC_SECTION, GPGRT_NVC_MODIFIED

    • New functions: gpgrt_strlist_free, gpgrt_strlist_add, gpgrt_strlist_tokenize, gpgrt_strlist_copy, gpgrt_strlist_rev, gpgrt_strlist_prev, gpgrt_strlist_last, gpgrt_strlist_pop, gpgrt_strlist_find, gpgrt_nvc_new, gpgrt_nvc_release, gpgrt_nvc_get_flag, gpgrt_nvc_add, gpgrt_nvc_set, gpgrt_nve_set, gpgrt_nvc_delete, ggpgrt_nvc_lookup, gpgrt_nvc_parse, gpgrt_nvc_write, gpgrt_nve_next, gpgrt_nve_name, gpgrt_nve_value, gpgrt_nvc_get_string, gpgrt_nvc_get_bool


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