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| Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:58:02 +0000 |
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8627
2011-06-24 02:47:06
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Name : js
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 1.8.5
Release : 6.fc15
URL : http://www.mozilla.org/js/
Summary : JavaScript interpreter and libraries
Description :
JavaScript is the Netscape-developed object scripting language used in millions
of web pages and server applications worldwide. Netscape's JavaScript is a
superset of the ECMA-262 Edition 3 (ECMAScript) standard scripting language,
with only mild differences from the published standard.
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Update Information:
Update to new upstream Firefox version 5.0, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the
upstream advisories:
* http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/fir...
See upstream release notes for more information about this new version:
* http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/
This update ALSO contains a change to the GNOME 3 shell's gjs library, to make it use the
standalone js package, to reduce risk of regression.
It also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against the new version of Firefox /
XULRunner.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #676437 - Build gjs against the standalone SpiderMonkey package 'js', not XULRunner's
copy
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676437
[ 2 ] Bug #715188 - Update to Firefox 5.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715188
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update js' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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