-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-17399 2011-12-23 03:10:48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : firefox Product : Fedora 15 Version : 9.0.1 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes: * Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance * Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript * Added support for font-stretch * Improved support for text-overflow * Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS * Fixed several stability issues * Fixed several security issues Notable nss changes include: 1. SSL 2.0 is disabled by default. 2. A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default. Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it. 3. SHA-224 is supported. 4. Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code. 5. Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string. 6. Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only (contributed by Hanno Böck, http://rsapss.hboeck.de/). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Dec 23 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 9.0.1-1 - Update to 9.0.1 * Wed Dec 21 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 9.0-3 - Update to 9.0 * Thu Dec 15 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 9.0-1.beta5 - Update to 9.0 Beta 5 * Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 8.0-3 - Disabled addon check UI (#753551) * Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 8.0-2 - Temporary workaround for langpacks (#753551) * Tue Nov 8 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 8.0-1 - Update to 8.0 * Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 7.0.1-3 - reverted the desktop file name for Fedora15 & 16 * Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 7.0.1-2 - renamed mozilla-firefox.desktop to firefox.desktop (#736558) - nspluginwrapper is not run in plugin-container (#747981) * Fri Sep 30 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 7.0.1-1 - Update to 7.0.1 * Tue Sep 27 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 7.0 - Update to 7.0 * Tue Sep 6 2011 Jan Horak <[email protected]> - 6.0.2-1 - Update to 6.0.2 * Tue Aug 16 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 6.0-1 - Update to 6.0 * Fri Jun 24 2011 Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> - 5.0-2 - Fix an issue with a stray glyph in the window title * Tue Jun 21 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 5.0-1 - Update to 5.0 * Tue May 10 2011 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> - 4.0.1-2 - Fixed rhbz#676183 - "firefox -g" is broken -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update firefox' 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 [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
