Paul's Blog Entries for May 2025
Thursday 1st May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.45 in Rawhide:
- Add new versions and test against them
Fix things to work with 5.41.x and new ^^ operator
Add explicit test for ^^ operator
Move devel-cover-docker into this repository
Improve cpancover code
Local Packages
Updated perl-Type-Tiny to 2.008002:
MooseX-Types 0.51 broke Type::Tiny's ability to reliably detect if Moose types were being used; this release fixes that
Friday 2nd May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250502.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 2025-05-02
Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.46 in Rawhide:
Add tests for new any and all functions
- Note testing against 5.40.2
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302211 in Rawhide:
Fix broken links in pod for Test2::Event and Test2::Event::Generic (GH#1035)
Fix broken link in pod for Test2::Manual::Tooling::TestBuilder (GH#1033)
Better error message if you use done_testing twice
Test2::Compare: Link to base class for Test2::Compare::* (GH#1038)
Test2::Manual::Anatomy::Event: Small typo in link (GH#1037)
Test2::EventFacet::Info::Table: Fix link to Test2::API::Context (GH#1036)
Test2::Manual::Anatomy::Context: Fix link to test2_stack function (GH#1034)
Spelling correction (GH#1042)
Local Packages
Updated curl in Rawhide repo to new upstream release candidate 8.14.0~rc1; this includes a new utility, wcurl, which lets you download URLs without having to remember any parameters
Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.57:
- Rewrite half of the internals to facilitate refcounted stack later on
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302211 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 4th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.47 in Rawhide:
Updated perl-PPI to 1.283 in Rawhide:
- Allow zero byte documents to have a location
- Handle simple lists in feature arg decomposing
- Warn on unknown feature arg decompose instead of die
Local Packages
Updated perl-Perl-MinimumVersion to 1.44:
Remove detection for Perl versions older than 5.008, which means that 5.006 is now the minimum required version that will be reported (GH#7)
Fix formatting of the summary printed by the perlver script (GH#14)
Recognize the minimum required version for the tr///r flag (GH#25) and indented heredocs (GH#27)
- Recognize the minimum required Perl versions for:
Update LICENSE text
Updated perl-PPI to 1.283 as per the Fedara version
Updated perl-PPIx-Utils to 0.004:
Update LICENSE text
Updated perl-Software-License to 0.104007:
- Update GPL v1 text to current version
CPAN::Meta v1 "gpl" license is explicitly GPL v2
- Improve recognition for Apache 1.1 and 2.0+
Updated perl-Test-Harness to 3.52:
- Support additional indicators on block scalars in YAML
Fix string comparisons with $] to use numeric comparison instead
Monday 5th May 2025
Local Packages
Updated perl-Mail-SPF to 3.20250505:
- Avoid an 'Attempt to reload Mail/SPF/Mech.pm aborted' error
- Remove empty record structure in order to stringify it correctly
- Redirect all references to openspf.org to open-spf.org
- Fix pod test errors
Wednesday 7th May 2025
Local Packages
Updated perl-EV (4.34) to fix FTBFS with ExtUtils::ParseXS ≥ 3.57, using fix from https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22353
Thursday 8th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.904.0 in Rawhide:
- Add experimental OOP interface, YAML 1.2
Local Packages
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.904.0 as per the Fedora version
Friday 9th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.123 in F-41, F-42 and Rawhide:
Fix broken autocoalesce of bitblasted vectors that fix for GH#428 in 3.3.122 introduced
- Fix improper autocoalesce of adjacent duplicate symbols
- Preserve dimension on integer array element when expanded
Local Packages
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.123 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 11th May 2025
Fedora Project
Monday 12th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.48 in Rawhide:
Fix up args handling for reports (GH#354)
Correct error message when launch is unavailable
Improve perlcritic compliance
Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.35 in Rawhide:
Change sub hashref2string() so it does not generate an error or warning when the node or node name is '' (empty string), undef or 0 (zero)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.35 as per the Fedora version
Tuesday 13th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Module-Build-Tiny to 0.052 in Rawhide:
Add extra_compiler_flags and extra_linker_flags command line arguments
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-Build-Tiny to 0.052 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Pod-Simple to 3.46:
XHTML: =over without =item should render as a blockquote
Add support for underlined text U<> formatting
- Make 'temp' name checking more succinct
GitHub: Fix and add tests
Makefile.PL: Add missing 'warnings' prereq
Add select method compatible with Pod::Select
Modernize htmlbat.t, corpus.t
- Fix links, typos, acknowledgements
- Add documentation on sub-classing
- Fix version checking
- Fix version number
Use rel2abs instead of abs_path
Wednesday 14th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.124 in F-41, F-42 and Rawhide:
Ensure type name in $var for VCD saver is >0 length
- Preserve bitblasted vector ordering with VCD saver
- Use full type names in VCD saver instead of abbreviations
- Dump all bits for a bitblasted vector in VCD saver in order to ensure stray bit extractions do not cause a failure to reconstruct vectors in proper order in the extracted file
Local Packages
Updated curl (Rawhide only) to new upstream release candidate 8.14.0~rc2
Updated gtkwave to 3.3.124 as per the Fedora version
Updated sendmail (8.18.1):
- Fix alternative scripts for /usr/(s)bin merge
alternatives slaves are called followers since alternatives 1.21
Added fix for gcc-15
Friday 16th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250516.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 2025-05-16
Local Packages
Sunday 18th May 2025
Fedora Project
Merged PR#1 for perl-Exporter-Tiny: Remove obsolete dependency on Lexical::Var
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Exporter-Tiny (1.006002) in Rawhide
Merged PR#2 for perl-IPC-Run: Disable optional tests on RHEL
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302212 in Rawhide:
Add a workaround for Test::Class::Moose
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302212 as per the Fedora version
Monday 19th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.49 in Rawhide:
Handle core Deparse changes for xor (GH#355)
- Code tidying
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302213 in Rawhide:
Local Packages
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Exporter-Tiny (1.006002)
Updated perl-PPIx-Regexp to 0.089:
The /x modifier should not affect the parse of the replacement string in a substitution operator, i.e. the '#' in s/x/#/x does not introduce a comment
Correct POD link in PPIx::Regexp::Token::Literal
Annotate sub class(), since with Perl 5.38 it is a built-in
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302213 as per the Fedora version
Tuesday 20th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.24 in Rawhide (no changes)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.24 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 21st May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250521.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 2025-05-21
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.24.1 in Rawhide:
Strip extra leading zeros from octets in addr2cidr (GH#4)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.24.1 as per the Fedora version
Thursday 22nd May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated milter-greylist (4.6.4) in Rawhide to build with -DSM_CONF_STDBOOL_H=1 so it's not necessary to use -std=gnu17
Updated milter-regex (2.7) in Rawhide to build with -DSM_CONF_STDBOOL_H=1 so it's not necessary to use -std=gnu17
Friday 23rd May 2025
Local Packages
Updated curl to new upstream release candidate 8.14.0~rc3 (development repository only)
Saturday 24th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.25 in Rawhide:
- Fix warning with Perl 5.40
Local Packages
Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.25 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 25th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302214 in Rawhide:
- Fix typo in documentation
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302214 as per the Fedora version
Monday 27th May 2025
Fedora Project
Updated ansible-collection-community-libvirt to 1.4.0 in Rawhide:
virt: implement basic check mode functionality (GH#98)
virt: implement the gathering of Dom UUIDs (GH#187)
virt: implement the gathering of Dom interface names and MAC addresses (GH#189)
virt: implement the removal of volumes for a Dom (GH#177)
New module community.libvirt.virt_volume: manage libvirt volumes inside a storage pool
Local Packages
Updated ansible-collection-community-libvirt to 1.4.0 as per the Fedora version
Tuesday 27th May 2025
Fedora Project
Branched and built perl-Modern-Perl (1.20241001) for EPEL-10
Wednesday 28th May 2025
Local Packages
Updated curl to 8.14.0:
mqtt: Send ping at upkeep interval
- schannel: Handle pkcs12 client certificates containing CA certificates
TLS: Add CURLOPT_SSL_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHMS and --sigalgs
vquic: ngtcp2 + openssl support
wcurl: Import v2025.04.20 script and documentation
- websocket: Add option to disable auto-pong reply
_SEEALSO.md: Remove spaces around command and man page section
asnyc-thrdd: Fix detach from running thread
asnyc-thrdd: Explain how this is okay with a comment
- async resolver code improvements
- async-threaded resolver: Use ref counter
- async: DoH improvements
autotools: Detect 'wolfSSL_set_quic_use_legacy_code' like cmake does
- autotools: Install shell completion files on cross build
aws-sigv4: Allow a blank string
build: Check required rustls-ffi version
- build: Enable gcc-12/13+, clang-10+ picky warnings
- build: Enable gcc-15 picky warnings
certs: Drop unused 'default_bits' from '.prm' files
cf-https-connect: Use the passed-in dns struct pointer
cf-socket: Fix FTP accept connect
- cfilters: Remove assert
cmake/FindNGTCP2: Simplify multi-pkg-config detection
cmake: Append picky warnings to 'CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS' as string
cmake: Avoid 'target is imported but not globally visible' when consuming libcurl with old cmake
cmake: Do not install 'mk-ca-bundle' script and manpage
cmake: Enable '-Wall' for MSVC when 'PICKY_COMPILER=ON'
- cmake: Extend integration tests
cmake: Fix 'fish' install directory detection via 'pkg-config'
cmake: Fix nghttp3 static linking with 'USE_OPENSSL_QUIC=ON'
cmake: Fix option() and mark_as_advanced() mixed order
- cmake: Fix shell completion install when just one flavour is enabled
cmake: Honour individual picky option overrides found in 'CMAKE_C_FLAGS'
- cmake: Install shell completions for cross-builds
cmake: Link 'crypt32' for OpenSSL feature detection
cmake: Merge 'CURL_WERROR' logic into 'PickyWarnings.cmake'
cmake: Prefer 'COMPILE_OPTIONS' over 'CMAKE_C_FLAGS' for custom C options
cmake: Quotes, whitespace, use 'VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL'
cmake: Revert 'CURL_LTO' behaviour for multi-config generators
cmake: Set 'BUILDING_LIBCURL' directly for unit test targets
cmake: Stop deleting '-W<n>' from 'CMAKE_C_FLAGS' (MSVC)
- cmake: Tidy up and document feature detections in dependencies
cmake: Use 'CMAKE_COMPILE_WARNING_AS_ERROR' if available
cmake: Use 'INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES' prop to specify local header dirs
cmake: Use 'LIB_NAME' in 'curl-config.cmake.in'
- cmake: Use absolute paths for completion targets
cmake: Use the 'LINK_OPTIONS' property with CMake 3.13+
configure: Catch asking for double resolver without https-rr
configure: Fix --disable-rt
- configure: Restore link checks
configure: Suppress command not found for brew
conncache: Make Curl_cpool_init return void
- connect: Shutdown timer fix
content_encoding: Transfer-Encoding parser improvements
CONTRIBUTE: Add project guidelines for AI use
contrithanks.sh: Drop set -e
- cpool/cshutdown: Force close connections under pressure
curl: Fix memory leak when -h is used in config file
curl: Only warn once for --manual in manual-disabled build
curl_get_line: Handle lines ending on the buffer boundary
curl_krb5: Only use functions if FTP is still enabled
curl_multibyte: Fix up low-level calls, include in unity builds
curl_osslq: Remove a leftover debug fprintf() call
curl_url_get.md: Don't call it normalized
curl_version_info.md: Clarify ssl_version for MultiSSL
CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.md: Correct the example
CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.md: Buffer is read only after curl takes ownership
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.md: Switch to GET => no body
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.md: Mention the seek callback
CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION.md: Fix the callback return type in example
curlx: Move the docs to docs/internals/
DEPRECATE.md: Drop support for VS2008
DEPRECATE.md: Drop Windows CE support
dist: Drop duplicate entry from 'CMAKE_DIST'
dns_entry: Move from conn to data->state
Dockerfile: Update debian:bookworm-slim Docker digest to 90522ee
docs/INSTALL.md: Drop reference to removed configure option
docs/libcurl: Fix type and prototype problems in examples
docs/libcurl: Make examples build with picky compiler options
docs/libcurl: Mention sensitive data/headers
docs: Add missing return statement in examples
- docs: Fix incorrect shell substitution in docker run example command
docs: Fix typo in retry.md
- docs: Update distros links
doh: httpsrr fix
doh: Make sure CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS is set with a "long" arg
- doh: Reduce the DNS request buffer size
easy_reset: Fix dohfor_mid member
- ECH: Reference the OpenSSL ECH feature branch
etag-save.md: Mention how using both options is a good idea
eventfd: Fix feature guards
formdata: Clean-ups
- ftp: Fix bug in failed init
- ftp: Fix race in upload handling
ftplistparser: Add two overflow preventions
ftplistparser: Split up into more functions
generate.bat: Exclude curlinfo.c from legacy VS projects
genserv.pl: Fail with a message if 'openssl' is missing or failing
- headers: Enforce a max number of response header to accept
- headers: Set an error message on illegal response headers
hostip: Fix build without threaded-resolver and without DoH
hostip: Show the correct name on proxy resolve error
- http2: Fix stream window size after unpausing
HTTP3.md: Fix incorrect variable placeholders
- http: Fix a build error when all auths are disabled
- http: Fix HTTP/2 handling of TE request header using "trailers"
http: In alt-svc negotiation only allow supported HTTP versions
http_aws_sigv4: Add additional verbose log statements
http_aws_sigv4: Improve sigv4 url encoding and canonicalization
http_chunks: Narrow variable scope for 'trlen'
http_negotiate: Fix non-SSL build with GSSAPI
https-connect: Fix httpsrr target check
HTTPSRR.md: Clarify somewhat
if2ip: Build the function also if FTP is present
- imap: Remove redundant condition
INSTALL-CMAKE.md: Fix typo
INSTALL.md: Update the minimal libcurl size example
KNOWN_BUGS: Fix link in sivg4 issue 16.3
lib/src/docs/test: Improve curl_easy_setopt() calls
lib1560: Use hex notation, drop non-ASCII exception
lib3026: Drop DLL pre-load perf mitigation for old mingw
lib: Add const to clientwriter tables
lib: Drop curlx_getpid, use fake pid in SMB
- lib: Include files using known path
lib: Make Curl_easyopts const
- lib: Unify conversions to/from hex
libcurl-tutorial.md: Fix read callback explanation
libssh: Add NULL check for Curl_meta_get()
libssh: Fix memory leak
libssh: Remove a condition that always equals false
libtest/first: Stop defining MEMDEBUG_NODEFINES
libtests: Define CURL_DISABLE_DEPRECATION first
- make: Clean tests better
mbedtls: TLS 1.3 is max when mbedtls has 1.3 support
metahash: Add asserts to help analysers
mk-ca-bundle.pl: Follow redirects
mk-ca-bundle: Switch URLs to GitHub versions
mkhelp: Fix to not generate a line-ending space in some cases
mqtt: Use conn/easy meta hash
multi: Do transfer book keeping using mid
multi: init_do(): Check result
netrc: Avoid NULL deref on weird input
netrc: Avoid strdup NULL
netrc: Deal with null token better
ngtcp2: Clarify ignoring of result
openssl-quic: Avoid potential '-Wnull-dereference', add assert
openssl-quic: Fix printf mask
openssl-quic: Fix shutdown when stream not open
openssl: Enable builds for both engines and providers
- openssl: Set the cipher string before doing private cert
parsedate: Provide Curl_wkday also for GnuTLS builds
processhelp.pm: Always call 'taskkill' with '-f' (force)
processhelp.pm: Avoid potential endless loop, log more (Windows)
- progress: Avoid integer overflow when gathering total transfer size
pytest tls: Extend coverage (fixes WolfSSL cert validation, CVE-2025-4947)
pytest-xdist: pytest in parallel
pytest: Add pinnedpubkey test cases (fixes WolfSSL pinning, CVE-2025-5025)
pytest: Give parametrized tests better ids for read- and parsability
pytest: Make test_07_22 more lenient to exit codes
quic: No local idle connection timeout, ngtcp2 keep-alive
rand: Update comment on Curl_rand_bytes weak random
RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md: Release candidate git tagging explained
- rtsp: Remove redundant condition
runtests: Add retry option to reduce flakiness
runtests: Fix indentation
runtests: Recognize lowercase 'windows' in 'curl -V'
runtests: Remove server verification after start
runtests: Split 'SSH_PWD' into 'SCP_PWD' and 'SFTP_PWD', and more
- rustls: Make max size of cert and key reasonable
sasl: Give help when unable to select AUTH
scripts: completion.pl: Sort the completion file for all shells
- scripts: Drop unused import, formatting
scripts: Fix --opts-dir help in completion.pl
- scripts: Fix perl indentation, whitespace, semicolons
sectransp: Fix building for macOS Sierra and older
setopt: Provide info for CURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT
- smb: Avoid integer overflow on weird input date
socket: Use accept4 when available
socketpair: Support pipe2 where available
spacecheck.pl: Check for non-ASCII chars, fix fallouts
spacecheck.pl: Verify 'tests/data/test*' for non-ASCII chars
src: Drop strcase.[ch] from tool builds
src: Include memdebug.h consistently with angle brackets <>
src: Rename curlx_safefree to tool_safefree
test1173.pl: Whitelist some option-looking names that aren't options
test1658: Add unit test for the HTTPS RR decoder
test: Make unittest 1308 into a libtest
tests/ech_tests.sh: Sync shebang with rest of bash scripts
tests/FILEFORMAT.md: Clarify %hex[] formatting
tests/FILEFORMAT.md: Document the aws feature
tests/README.md: Document --test-duphandle
tests/README.md: List the openssl tool among the prerequisites
tests/server/dnsd: Basic DNS server for test suite
tests/server: Check for 'stream != NULL' in mqttd
tests/server: Fix typo in comment
tests/server: Stop using libcurl string comparisons
tests/server: Stop using libcurl's printf functions
tests/serverhelp: Remove last remnants of http-pipe server
tests/tunit: Make a separate directory for tool-based unit tests
tests: Add aws feature to the related tests
tests: Add https-mtls server to force client auth
- tests: Fix some test tag mismatches
tests: Mark ipfs tests to require ipfs
- tests: Move a boolean variable out of the path section
tests: Prefer '--insecure' over '-k'
- tests: Provide all non-ascii data hex encoded
- tests: Remove some unused test case sections
- tests: Require IPv6 for 1265, 1324, 2086
tests: Separate tunit tests from unit tests more
tests: Stop using libcurl's strdup
- tests: Unify test case keywords
- tests: Use a more portable null device path
TODO: Remove "nicer lacking perl message"
tool_cb_write.c: Handle EINTR on flush
tool_getparam: Clear argument only when needed
tool_operate: Make retrycheck() a separate function
tool_operate: When retrying, only truncate regular files
tool_paramhlp: Avoid integer overflow in secs2ms()
tool_parsecfg: Make get_line handle lines ending on the buffer boundary
typecheck-gcc.h: Fix the typechecks
- urlapi: Redirecting to "" is considered fine
urlapi: Remove unneeded guards around PUNY2IDN
urldata: Remove the unused struct field 'hide_progress'
VERSIONS: List all past releases
vquic: Consistent name for the stream struct across backends
vquic: Init for every call to recvmsg
vtls: Avoid NULL deref on bad PEM input
- vtls: Fix build with ssl but without http
VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY: Use of weak algos
winbuild: Add the deprecation warning to the README
winbuild: curl_get_line is not used for tool builds
- windows: Fix builds targeting WinXP, test it in CI
- wolfssl: Fix to enable ALPN when available
- ws: Fix the header replace check
- ws: Store protocol context as connection meta data
Thursday 29th May 2025
Local Packages
Updated curl (8.14.0) to fix regression: curl_multi_add_handle() returning OOM when using more than 400 handles (GH#17475)
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20250528:
- Updated for v5.41.13
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