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Fedora 24 WebKitGTK4 Security Update 2016-f4b5897686 Moderate

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Elevate WebKitGTK+ to version 2.14.1 on Fedora 24, featuring enhanced compositing capabilities, refined clipboard functionality, and optimized memory management.
Update WebKitGTK+ package to 2.14.1

Summary

WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the

GTK+ platform.

This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

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...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Fedora webkitgtk4 web content engine

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-f4b5897686 2016-10-18 11:22:09.730738
Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 24 Version : 2.14.1 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://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.

Update Instructions

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 .

Name: webkitgtk4
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.14.1
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Fedora webkitgtk4 web content engine

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