[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: webkitgtk4-2.8.5-1.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-13001
2015-08-07 10:06:28
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Name        : webkitgtk4
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 2.8.5
Release     : 1.fc22
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+ 2.8.5 includes fixes for 3 security issues. Additional fixes:

* Fix the window size reported when the web view isn't realized yet. This fixes the layout of some websites when opening new tabs in the browser and anchor links when opened in new tabs too.
* Prevent clipboard contents from being lost when web process finishes.
* Always allow font matching for strong aliases.
* Move GStreamer missing plugins installer to the UI process.
* Fix a crash when spell checker returns no guesses.
* Fix a crash when SoupSession is destroyed in exit handler.
* Fix a crash closing a page when default context menu is open.
* Several crashes and rendering issues fixed.
* Translation updates: Swedish.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  6 2015 Tomas Popela <tpopela at redhat.com> - 2.8.5-1
- Update to 2.8.5
* Sat Aug  1 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.4-4
- Make YouTube work.
* Tue Jul 28 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.4-3
- Exempt the plugin process from the address space limit.
* Thu Jul  9 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.4-2
- Prevent runaway web processes from using unlimited memory.
* Wed Jul  8 2015 Tomas Popela <tpopela at redhat.com> - 2.8.4-1
- Update to 2.8.4
* Thu Jul  2 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.3-5
- Build i686 with -fno-tree-rsa, #1225733
* Mon Jun 15 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.3-4
- Remove sqlite crash patch; didn't help
* Thu Jun 11 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.3-3
- Add speculative fix for sqlite crashes
* Thu May 28 2015 Tomas Popela <tpopela at redhat.com> - 2.8.3-2
- Backport bmalloc fix (rhbz#1225733)
* Fri May 15 2015 Tomas Popela <tpopela at redhat.com> - 2.8.3-1
- Update to 2.8.3
* Tue May 12 2015 Tomas Popela <tpopela at redhat.com> - 2.8.2-1
- Update to 2.8.2
* Tue Apr 21 2015 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> - 2.8.1-2
- Reenable fast matrix multiplication on x86_64
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update webkitgtk4' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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