PaulHowarth/Blog/2026-06

Paul's Blog Entries for June 2026

Monday 1st June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Email-Address-List to 0.07 in Rawhide:

    • Update whitespace removal code to remove all types of unicode whitespace in addition to ASCII
  • Updated perl-Perl-Critic (1.156) in Rawhide to run tests with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to fix pod spelling test on Rawhide (running without the ".UTF-8" resulted in errors being triggered for parts of contractions like "isn" and "doesn")

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Perl-Critic (1.156) as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-GD to 2.85 in Rawhide:

    • Tolerate runtime TIFF decode failures in autodetect (GH#62)

    • Replace cpm with cpanm in github actions

    • Fixed a minor precedence bug in t/z_manifest.t

  • Updated perl-IO-Tty (1.31) with fix for Bug #2463168 (perl-IO-Tty-1.24 or newer break coreutils test-suite) (GH#91, GH#95)

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder and perl-Sereal to 5.006 in EPEL-10.2 to make sure that COPY tags cannot be used to read past end of buffer (CVE-2026-8796)

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (rc) to new upstream release candidate 8.21.0~rc1

  • Updated perl-IO-Tty (1.31) as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20260601:

    • Updated for v5.43.11
  • Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Sub-Exporter (0.991)

Wednesday 3rd June 2026

Fedora Project

  • Merged PR#2 for perl-IO-Socket-SSL to BR: procps-ng rather than procps for the test suite since procps has been provided by the procps-ng package since Fedora 18

Local Packages

  • Updated nmap (7.92) to fix OpenSSL 4.0 compatibility

  • Updated perl-Archive-Tar to 3.12:

    • Allow '..' links in secure extract in parent path for symlinks and hardlinks

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL (2.098) as per the Fedora version


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