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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-4595 (pidgin)

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To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pidgin-2.10.2-1.fc16
Date:  Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:21:18 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120324232118.C29CE20BA1@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-4595 2012-03-24 00:06:16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pidgin Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.10.2 Release : 1.fc16 URL : http://pidgin.im/ Summary : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client Description : Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an account using the account editor. Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins. Pidgin is not affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012) View all closed tickets for this release. General: Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799) Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773) Pidgin: Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882) Fix rare crash. (#14392) Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring the Browser. libpurple: Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+. (Dan Williams) (#13859) AIM and ICQ: Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message from the server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983) Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and underscores. (#13500) Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500) Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses. Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883) MSN: Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884) Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753) Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302) Windows-Specific Changes: Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612) Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802) Plugins: The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Mar 23 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher@gmail.com> - 2.10.2-1 - Update to 2.10.2, BZ 803293, 803299. - Dropping MSN patches. Protocol patch not needed, won't connect - to 16 by default. Crash patch was upstreamed. - Dropped nm09 patch, upstreamed. * Fri Mar 9 2012 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 2.10.1-4 - fedora 17+ uses farstream now instead of farsight2 * Wed Jan 18 2012 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> - 2.10.1-3 - Map RHEL 7 to Fedora 16 (for now). * Wed Jan 18 2012 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> - 2.10.1-2 - Map RHEL 7 to Fedora 16 (for now). * Thu Dec 29 2011 Stu Tomlinson <stu@nosnilmot.com> 2.10.1-1 - 2.10.1, includes security fixes for CVE-2011-3594, CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-4603 * Mon Nov 28 2011 Milan Crha <mcrha@redhat.com> 2.10.0-5 - Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server * Sun Oct 30 2011 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> 2.10.0-4 - Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #803293 - pidgin-2.10.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803293 [ 2 ] Bug #803299 - pidgin various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803299 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pidgin' 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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