Fedora 17 Update: nut-2.6.4-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9724
2012-06-20 19:06:54
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Name        : nut
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.6.4
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.networkupstools.org/
Summary     : Network UPS Tools
Description :
These programs are part of a developing project to monitor the assortment
of UPSes that are found out there in the field. Many models have serial
ports of some kind that allow some form of state checking. This
capability has been harnessed where possible to allow for safe shutdowns,
live status tracking on web pages, and more.

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Update Information:

- A static source code analysis has been done by Michal Hlavinka from RedHat, using
Coverity (12 issues fixed).
- Add new "LIST CLIENTS" and "NETVER" commands to NUT network
protocol.
- Support of ranges of values for writable variables has been added, to complete the
existing enumerated values mechanism. 
- PyNUT.py has been updated to version 1.2.2, adding support for LIST CLIENTS, FSD, HELP
and VER (Rene Martín Rodríguez)
- support for new devices:
* AEG Power Solutions PROTECT HOME
* more APC SNMP cards
* ATEK Defensor range
* all Borri models
* all COVER ENERGY SA
* CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U, PR6000LCDRTXL5U and CP1000PFCLCD
* Dell UPS Network Management Card
* Dynamix 1000VA USB
* Eaton Management Card Contact (ref 66104)
* EVER POWERLINE RT / 11 / 31 and DUO II Pro
* GE Digital Energy GT Series 1000-3000 VA
* all recent HP serial / USB UPS (G2, G3 and R/T models, ) and HP UPS
* Ippon INNOVA RT
* KOLFF BLACK NOVA
* Lexis X-power Tigra 1kVA
* Microline C-Lion Innova
* Online Yunto YQ450
* PowerShield Defender 1200VA
* PowerWalker Online VFI LCD, Line-Interactive VI LCD and Line-Interactive VI
* Riello Netman Plus 102 SNMP Card
* Tripp-Lite OMNISMART500 

- apcsmart has received some fixes to work better on Mac OS X, and in general
- bcmxcp has improved support for battery status, and better supports PW9120 units
- bestfortress has improved Best Fortress LI675VA support
- blazer_ser and blazer_usb now try to automatically estimate high and low voltages, to be
able to calculate battery charge
- bestups has also received some care, though users are encouraged to switch to
blazer_ser, since bestups will soon be deprecated.
- newmge-shut has been heavilly improved.  However, replacement of the current mge-shut
has been postponed to the next release
- oneac 0.80 improves support for all families of Oneac (EG, ON, OZ and OB), including
more data and instant commands (Bill Elliot).
- usbhid-ups: for Eaton devices, ups.start.auto is now automatically adjusted for
shutdown.{return,stayoff} to behave as expected ; Liebert firmwares with incorrect
exponents have also been addressed.
- snmp-ups now provides support for UPS shutdown, based on usbhid-ups mechanisms
(composite commands and fallback). 
- nut-scanner now also has libupsclient has a weak runtime dependency ; more docs and
bugfixes have also happened.
- Riello protocols have been officially published in NUT protocols library
- Duplicate instances of upsd / upsmon are now detected upon startup
- NUT variables namespace has been completed with missing variables and commands that are
already known and standard
- upslog now comes with a companion file, for logrotate configuration 
- more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and documentation, with a
good bunch from Greg A. Woods.
 
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jun 14 2012 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com&gt; - 2.6.4-1
- nut updated to 2.6.4
* Thu May 31 2012 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com&gt; - 2.6.3-3
- fix heap-based buffer overflow due improper processing of non-printable 
  characters in random network data (CVE-2012-2944)
* Mon May 28 2012 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com&gt; - 2.6.3-3
- bump release nubmer to fix upgrade path
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #831429 - nut multilib conflict
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831429
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nut' at the command line.
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