Fedora 17 Update: webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-13029
2012-08-31 00:09:50
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Name        : webkitgtk3
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.8.3
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary     : GTK+ Web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK+ platform.

This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

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Update Information:

WebKitGTK+ 1.8.3 release with a number of bug fixes. Compared to the previous Fedora 1.8.1 build, the fixes include:

  - Fix continuous insertion of newlines in Etherpad.
  - The spell checker now recognizes English-language contractions.
  - Merge many security fixes from trunk.
  - Fix several security issues with accessibility support.
  - Turn off the deletion UI during editing, as it caused issues with some sites.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 30 2012 Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> - 1.8.3-1
- Update to 1.8.3 (#852136)
- Drop the svg clipping patch, included in the new upstream release
* Fri Jun  8 2012 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> - 1.8.1-3
- Fix svg clipping
* Mon May 14 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.1-2
- Explicitly disable JIT on ARM as it's not currently stable with JS heavy pages
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #832802 - webkitgtk should not be overriding global C++ new/delete
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832802
  [ 2 ] Bug #852136 - webkitgtk3 1.8.3
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852136
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update webkitgtk3' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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