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.
This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be
found in the upstream tarball from perl.org.
If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package
instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter,
install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more
details on the Perl decomposition into packages.
* Sun Dec 10 2023 MSVSphere Packaging Team <packager@msvsphere-os.ru> - 4:5.30.1-452
- Rebuilt for MSVSphere 8.8
* Thu Dec 03 2020 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-452
- Run-require perl(Encode) by perl-libs (bug #1903631)
* Fri Jun 05 2020 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-451
- Fix CVE-2020-10543 (an integer overflow from nested regex quantifiers)
(bug #1837975)
- Fix CVE-2020-10878 (a corruption of a state of a compiled regular expression
due to an integer overflow) (bug #1837988)
- Fix CVE-2020-12723 (a corruption of a state of a compiled regular expression
due to recursive calls) (bug #1838000)
* Fri Mar 13 2020 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-450
- Fix shebangs (bug #1813199)
* Fri Nov 29 2019 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-449
- Fix a memory leak when compiling a regular expression with a non-word class
(GH#17218)
* Tue Nov 12 2019 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-448
- Fix overloading for binary and octal floats (RT#125557)
- Fix handling undefined array members in Dumpvalue (RT#134441)
- Fix taint mode documentation regarding @INC
- Fix handling a layer argument in Tie::StdHandle::BINMODE() (RT#132475)
- Fix an unintended upgrade to UTF-8 in the middle of a transliteration
- Fix a race in File::stat() tests (GH#17234)
- Fix a buffer overread when parsing a number (GH#17279)
- Fix GCC 10 version detection (GH#17295)
* Mon Nov 11 2019 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.1-447
- 5.30.1 bump (see <https://metacpan.org/pod/release/SHAY/perl-5.30.1/pod/perldelta.pod>
for release notes)
* Wed Sep 11 2019 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.0-446
- Fix a memory leak when matching a UTF-8 regular expression (RT#134390)
- Fix a detection for futimes (RT#134432)
* Mon Sep 02 2019 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.0-445
- Adjust spec file to rpm-build-4.15.0-0.rc1.1
- Fix parsing a Unicode property name when compiling a regular expression
- Fix a buffer overread when parsing a Unicode property while compiling
a regular expression (RT#134133)
- Do not interpret 0x and 0b prefixes when numifying strings (RT#134230)
- Fix a buffer overread when compiling a regular expression with many escapes
(RT#134325)
- Fix a buffer overflow when compiling a regular expression with many branches
(RT#134329)
- Correct a misspelling in perlrebackslash documentation (RT#134395)
* Thu Aug 22 2019 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 4:5.30.0-444
- Fix a NULL pointer dereference in PerlIOVia_pushed()
- Fix a crash when setting $@ on unwinding a call stack (RT#134266)
- Fix parsing a denominator when parsing a Unicode property name
- Fix a documentation about a future API change
- Do not run File-Find tests in parallel
