Fedora 12 Update: xscreensaver-5.11-2.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-7788
2010-05-01 10:43:52
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Name        : xscreensaver
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 5.11
Release     : 2.fc12
URL         : http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Summary     : X screen saver and locker
Description :
A modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System.
More than 200 display modes are included in this package.

This is a metapackage for installing all default packages
related to XScreenSaver.

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Update Information:

A bug is reported by abrt that xscreensaver hacks crash without  "pair" option
when some signal from X sent is caught by the  hacks. This new rpm should fix
the issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat May  1 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.11-2
- Fix crash when not using "pair" mode and when MappingNotify
  or so is received (bug 587537)
* Mon Apr 12 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.11-1
- Update to 5.11
- All patches sent to the upstream now applied in the tarball
- 2 new patches, one for autoconf, one for po
- Preserve 5.10 tarball for now for translation
* Sat Feb 27 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- F-12: rebuild with newer gcc
* Fri Feb  5 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.10-6.1
- A bit more memleak fix
* Fri Feb  5 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.10-6
- Fix memleak on analogtv based hacks, especially on apple2
* Wed Feb  3 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.10-5
- Fix crash on noseguy when X resource is no longer available (bug 560614)
* Fri Dec 11 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.10-4
- Fix occasional crash on substrate (bug 545847)
- Fix initialization process on apple2, hopefully fix bug 540790??
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #587537 - [abrt] crash in xscreensaver-extras-1:5.11-1.fc12: Process /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/fontglide was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587537
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xscreensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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