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Postings from June 2019
As per subject. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CPAN shows at the moment 307 pass and 4 fail reports. The fail reports do not reveal actionable items to me. From the Changes file: * two new options to protect against accidental downgrades: allow_installing_outdated_dists and allow_installing_module_downgrades * two new options to tune the automatic determination of the nearest peers: urllist_ping_external and urllist_ping_verbose; NOTE: this feature was developed during the Perl Toolchain Summit 2019 in Marlow; thanks to the sponsors: Booking.com, cPanel, MaxMind, FastMail, ZipRecruiter, Cogendo, Elastic, OpenCage Data, Perl Services, Zoopla, Archer Education, OpusVL, Oetiker+Partner, SureVoIP, YEF * reveal the size of PERL5LIB in diagnostic output * new semantics for parameter ftpstats_size: setting to '0' or lower, disables download statistics * bugfix: under certain circumstances, failing dependencies via recommends and suggests could abort a build; this is now fixed * bugfix: protect bundle processing against unavailable bundle files and missing build directories * bugfix: fix broken permissions after untar * bugfix: protect against exceptions from unzip * bugfix: add one level of fork+setsid for testing to prevent that a test can kill the process group that CPAN.pm is running in. Learned from experience with testing VIZDOM/DBD-JDBC-0.71.tar.gz * fix plugins: all early returns from all methods, that are accessible for plugins, now call the post* plugins * new question answered in the FAQ: "How can I switch to sudo instead of local::lib" (thanks to Amos Bird for asking the question on irc) * plenty of new and updated distroprefs documents, among which are some important ones to prevent Module::AutoInstall from switching to CPANPLUS and taking over (and harming) the build Thanks, -- andreasThread Next