Fedora 20 Update: rdesktop-1.8.3-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14595
2014-11-10 04:53:22
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Name        : rdesktop
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.8.3
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.rdesktop.org/
Summary     : X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
Description :
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

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Update Information:

This release adds support for Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2
which includes fixes for smart card redirection, mouse cursor
and other minor issues. There has also been work on code cleanup
to match specification and a few bug fixes.

This release also adds support for server redirection when connecting to a Windows 2012 RDS Farm and issues related to server redirection for Windows 2003 / 2008. There are also a few other issues solved when connecting to Windows 8 / Windows 2012.

The default printer driver "HP LaserJet 8500 PS" used for local
printer redirection has been changed to "MS Publisher Imagesetter".
This makes printing work out-of-the-box with Windows 2003 and later versions.

ChangeLog:
* Support enhanced server redirection (Session broker 2012)
* Support License Error Alert PDU
* Changed default driver for printer redirection
* Fix CredSSP login using non-ASCII username/password
* Fix double login prompt bug with Win2008 server redirection
* Fix keysym collisions
* Fix mouse cursor with Windows 2012 R2
* Fix local drive redirection with Win8 / Win2012
* Fix issue with mouse cursor hotspot
* Fix issue with mouse / keyboard against VirtualBox RDP
* Fix uncomplete czech keymap
* Fix error in dutch keymap
* Added a persistent mode used with SeamlessRDP
* Added US international keyboard layout with dead keys
* Code cleanup to match specifications, use constants defined instead of magic numbers, remove of dead code
* Fix regression with failed connection and a invalid licensing message, introduced in v1.8.2
* Fix issue with Non ASCII user / password when using CredSSP
* Fix issues using smartcard redirection with Windows 2012 R2
* Fix issue with windows key functionality
* Fix memory corruption when using rdp_out_unistr()
* Fix workaround for the lack of support for alpha cursors
* Fix silent exit when redirected when using CredSSP
* Fix crash when starting rdesktop without domain specified while using CredSSP
* Fix issue in SeamlessRDP protocol parser upon reconnect
* Fix issue were a new SeamlessRDP application is respawned upon a re-connection

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ChangeLog:

* Sun Nov  2 2014 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> - 1.8.3-1
- update to 1.8.3
* Wed May 21 2014 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> - 1.8.2-1
- update to 1.8.2
* Mon Jan  6 2014 Jon Disnard <jdisnard at gmail.com> - 1.8.1-2
- Aarch64 autoreconf (bz #926432)
* Mon Dec 23 2013 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> - 1.8.1-1
- update to 1.8.1
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update rdesktop' 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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