Re: OpenBSD perl 5.42.3 - Minor update

Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.tech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 05:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote:
> I'd like to bring perl up to date with upstream 5.42.3 plus local
> patches.
> 
> I already committed the CVE fixes that were the main part of this perl
> update, so there are only a couple small additions to Archive::Tar,
> Compress::Raw::Bzip2, IO::Compress, and all the docs that go along with
> a perl update.
> 
> The patch is here:
> 
> https://cvs.afresh1.com/~andrew/perl-update/OpenBSD-perl-5.42.3.patch
> 
> Comments, OK?

I have successfully installed Perl v5.42.3 on my laptop.

Do we have to bump libperl.so to force rebuild and install of the
XS modules from packages?

bluhm
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