Fedora 17 Update: pidgin-sipe-1.13.0-1.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-3966
2012-03-17 16:46:58
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Name        : pidgin-sipe
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.13.0
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://sipe.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Pidgin protocol plugin to connect to MS Office Communicator
Description :
A third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger.
It implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products:

    * Microsoft Lync Server 2010
    * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2 and newer)
    * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)
    * Reuters Messaging

With this plugin you should be able to replace your Microsoft Office
Communicator client with Pidgin.

This package provides the icon set for Pidgin.

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Update Information:

New upstream release:

- support for Lync & Office365
- added [MS-SIPAE] TLS-DSK authentication scheme
- added [MS-DLX] based Get Info/Contact Search
- added experimental media TCP transport

**NOTE:** Lync server doesn't work together with the security fix for CVE-2011-3389 in NSS 3.13.x: the connection is dropped with the message "Read Error".

Workaround: Set the environment variable NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0 when running Pidgin.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pidgin-sipe' 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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