Fedora 18 Update: open-vm-tools-9.2.3-6.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-14577
2013-08-10 02:45:51
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Name        : open-vm-tools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 9.2.3
Release     : 6.fc18
URL         : http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware
Description :
The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It
is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the
functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines.
This package contains only the core user-space programs and libraries of
open-vm-tools.

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Update Information:

Fixes for removing unused stuff and adding relro support, remove Fedora 17 support (EOL).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Aug  9 2013 Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> - 9.2.3-7
- Added options for hardening build (bug 990549).
- Excluded unwanted file mount.vmhgfs from packaging (bug 990547).
- Removed deprecated key "Encoding" from "Desktop Entry" (bug 990552).
- Removed Fedora 17 support (EOL).
* Tue Jun  4 2013 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> - 9.2.3-6
- Add BR gcc-c++.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #990547 - mount.vmhgfs should not be packaged
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990547
  [ 2 ] Bug #990549 - vmtoolsd is built with only partial RELRO
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990549
  [ 3 ] Bug #990552 - warning: key "Encoding" in group "Desktop Entry" is deprecated
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990552
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update open-vm-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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