-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-17399 2011-12-23 03:10:48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : nspr Product : Fedora 15 Version : 4.8.9 Release : 2.fc15 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/ Summary : Netscape Portable Runtime Description : NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: * Thu Sep 8 2011 Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> - 4.8.9-2 - Avoid %post/un shell invocations and dependencies. * Tue Aug 9 2011 Elio Maldonado <[email protected]> - 4.8.9-1 - Update to NSPR_4_8_9_RTM * Mon Jul 18 2011 Elio Maldonado <[email protected]> - 4.8.8-4 - The tests must pass for the build to succeed * Mon Jul 18 2011 Elio Maldonado <[email protected]> - 4.8.8-3 - Run the nspr test suite in the %check section * Wed Jul 6 2011 Elio Maldonado <[email protected]> - 4.8.8-2 - Conditionalize Thumb2 build support on right Arm arches * Fri May 6 2011 Elio Maldonado <[email protected]> - 4.8.8-1 - Update to NSPR_4_8_8_RTM * Mon Apr 25 2011 Elio Maldonado Batiz <[email protected]> - 4.8.8-0.1.beta3 - Update to NSPR_4_8_8_BETA3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nspr' 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
