-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-e9798eaaa3 2016-08-12 15:22:00.536152 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : chromium Product : Fedora 24 Version : 52.0.2743.116 Release : 1.fc24 URL : http://www.chromium.org/Home Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser Description : Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
On 2016-08-04 Google released Chrome 52.0.2743.116 which fixes at least 8 security issues: CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5145, CVE-2016-5143 and CVE-2016-5144. Additionally, this update: * Splits libmedia and libffmpeg into the libs-media subpackage, so that it can be replaced by non-Fedora repos to provide additional codecs. * Enables gtk3 support * Adds additional ICU Text codec aliases (from openSUSE via Russian Fedora) * Uses PIE in the Linux sandbox (from openSUSE via Russian Fedora) * Enables ARM CPU detection for webrtc (from archlinux via Russian Fedora) * Does not force -m32 in icu compile on ARM (from archlinux via Russian Fedora) * Enables fpic on linux * Enables hidpi * Enables touch_ui * Adds chromedriver subpackage (from Russian Fedora) * Sets default master_preferences location to /etc/chromium (and includes master_preferences file) * Creates PepperFlash directory where plugin needs to live if user has it * Improves translations in chromium-browser.desktop (from Russian Fedora) * Improves translation in Appinfo xml file (thanks to Richard Hughes) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1364779 - Please update Chromium to 52.0.2743.116 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364779 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update chromium' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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