-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-9ef65cf422 2018-03-06 17:26:39.508568 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl Product : Fedora 26 Version : 5.24.3 Release : 396.fc26 URL : http://www.perl.org/ Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language Description : Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter.
If your script requires some Perl modules, you can install them with "perl(MODULE)" where "MODULE" is a name of required module. E.g. install "perl(Test::More)" to make Test::More Perl module available.
If you need all the Perl modules that come with upstream Perl sources, so called core modules, install perl-core package.
If you only need perl run-time as a shared library, i.e. Perl interpreter embedded into another application, the only essential package is perl-libs.
Perl header files can be found in perl-devel package.
Perl utils like "splain" or "perlbug" can be found in perl-utils package.
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This release fixes shell bangs in perl-tests package, parsing braced subscript after parentheses, handling attribute specification on our variables, a crash when a match for inversely repeated group fails, an overflow when parsing a character range with no preceding character, walking symbol table for ISA in Carp, handling file names with null bytes in stat and lstat functions, a crash when untying an object witout a stash, deparsing of transliterations with unprintable characters, error reporting on do() on a directory, stack manipulation when a lexical subroutine is defined in a do block in a member of an iteration list, setting $! when statting a closed filehandle, tainting of s/// with overloaded replacement, expanding system() arguments, and undefined behavior when copying memory in Glob and pp_caller. It also removes invalid macro definitions from macros.perl and a workaround for a fixed bug in glibc libcrypt. It also starts linking all XS modules to pthread library to ensure proper symbol resolution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1532539 - [PATCH] Invalid definitions in macros.perl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532539 [ 2 ] Bug #1536752 - libxcrypt-4.0.0-0.200.20171109git15447aa not compatible with glibc's libcrypt https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536752 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade perl' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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