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Fedora 24 Epiphany: 2016-f4b5897686 Critical WebKit Security Patch

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This revision upgrades Epiphany by incorporating enhancements from WebKitGTK+ 2.14.1, effectively tackling several security issues within Fedora.
Update WebKitGTK+ package to 2.14.1

Summary

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be

simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components

in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser

application.

Update Information:

Update WebKitGTK+ package to 2.14.1. Major changes in 2.14.0: * Threaded compositor is enabled by default in both X11 and Wayland. * Accelerated compositing is now supported in Wayland. * Clipboard works in Wayland too. * Memory pressure handler always works even when cgroups is not present or not configured. * The HTTP disk cache implements speculative revalidation of resources. * DRI3 is no longer a problem when using the modesetting intel driver. * The amount of file descriptors that are kept open has been drastically reduced. Fixes from 2.14.1: * MiniBrowser and jsc binaries are now installed in pkglibexecdir instead of bindir. * Improve performance when resizing a window with multiple web views in X11. * Check whether GDK can use GL before using gdk_cairo_draw_from_gl() in Wayland. * Updated default UserAgent string or better compatibility. * Fix a crash on github.com in IntlDateTimeFormat::resolvedOptions when using the C locale. * Fix BadDamage X errors when closing the we...

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-f4b5897686 2016-10-18 11:22:09.730738
Name : epiphany Product : Fedora 24 Version : 3.20.4 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web Summary : Web browser for GNOME Description : Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update epiphany' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: epiphany
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.20.4
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Web browser for GNOME

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