Re: OpenBSD perl 5.42.3 - Minor update

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 09:49:38PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> 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.

Yay!


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

Yes, but perl minor updates are supposed to be binary compatible, so I'm
not sure we're supposed to need to.

Bumps are cheap though, so can if you like.

I guess I should double check that, I don't recall if I did this time.