Wednesday 25th February 2026
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.66 in F-44 and Rawhide:
Rewrote the UTF-8 validator using a shift-based DFA from https://github.com/chansen/c-utf8-valid by the same author; benchmarks show up to 10x faster decoding compared with Encode.pm
Local Packages
Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.66 as per the Fedora version