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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