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Fedora 24 Shotwell Security Advisory: Update for HTTPS Enhancements

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This release of Fedora 24 introduces secure HTTPS encryption for GIMP and recommends that users refresh their service passwords.
This release turns on HTTPS encyption all over the publishing plugins

Summary

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer designed for the GNOME

desktop. It allows you to import photos from your camera or disk, organize

them by date and subject matter, even ratings. It also offers basic photo

editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten.

Shotwell's non-destructive photo editor does not alter your master photos,

making it easy to experiment and correct errors.

Update Information:

This release turns on HTTPS encyption all over the publishing plugins. Usersusing Tumblr and Yandex.Fotki publishing are strongly advised to change their passwords and reauthenticate Shotwell to those services after upgrade. Users of Picasa and Youtube publishing are strongly advised to reauthenticate (Log out and back in) Shotwell to those services after upgrade. Changes in shotwell 0.24.5 release: * Publishing: Use HTTPS consistently * Updated translations Changes in shotwell 0.24.4 release: * Piwigo: Fix title and comments for uploaded images * Fix icon file name for Serbian and Korean * Improved duplicate detection

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-ddee871dd1 2017-02-02 16:34:58.790356
Name : shotwell Product : Fedora 24 Version : 0.24.5 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell Summary : A photo organizer for the GNOME desktop Description : Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to import photos from your camera or disk, organize them by date and subject matter, even ratings. It also offers basic photo editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten. Shotwell's non-destructive photo editor does not alter your master photos, making it easy to experiment and correct errors.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade shotwell' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: shotwell
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.24.5
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell
Summary: A photo organizer for the GNOME desktop

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