2019-07-03 k <andk@cpan.org>
* release 2.27
* stable release, no functional change compared to 2.27-TRIAL2
* updated public key for PAUSE in the file PAUSE2021.pub
* small additions to distroprefs, to the Makefile.PL, and to the
MANIFEST
2019-06-09 k <andk@cpan.org>
* release 2.27-TRIAL2
* bugfix: omit the new POSIX::setsid call and the waitpid with
WNOHANG on Windows
* bugfix: the signalhandler has to kill the new process group
spawned for running the tests
* adding the README file that was generated during the release of
2.27-TRIAL
2019-05-31 k <andk@cpan.org>
* release 2.27-TRIAL
* 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
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