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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 5.44.0nb1, Package name: perl-5.44.0nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy
to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both
procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in
support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive
collections of third-party modules.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: perl-64bitauto, threads

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Filesize: 20767.042 KB

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   2026-08-09 23:30:07 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
perl: fix CVE-2026-15534

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-07-16 21:06:25 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2542) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl5 5.44.0
   2026-07-16 20:57:37 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (9) | Package removed
Log message:
perl: update to 5.44.0.

Core Enhancements

Named Parameters in Signatures
Multi-variable foreach can now use aliased references
Enhanced operation of regular expression patterns under /xx
Unicode 17.0 is supported
New source of entropy for PRNG seeding

Security

CVE-2026-8376 - Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk
CVE-2026-57432 - Buffer overflow in S_measure_struct
CVE-2026-13221 - Regex trie 16-bit field overflow

Incompatible Changes

Unicode rules are now fully enforced on identifier and regular expression group \ 
names.

More details at
https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/changes
   2026-07-13 20:44:25 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) 
Log message:
perl: fix CVE-2026-13221, CVE-2026-57432, CVE-2026-57433.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-06-16 09:12:10 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl: fix security issue in Socket module

Using upstream patch.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-05-28 00:35:30 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl: fix security problem in Archive::Tar

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via
attacker controlled entry size field in tar header

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-05-28 00:28:20 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
perl: apply upstream security fix for regex on 32-bit systems.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2026-03-30 10:57:15 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
perl: update to 5.42.2.

Perl 5.42.2 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl
5.42.1 and contains approximately 2,900 lines of changes across 57 files
from 6 authors.