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Fedora 25: Empathy Update March 2017 for Certificate Issues

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25's security update on March 23, 2017, improves SSL certificate verification in Empathy, reducing reliance on outdated CAs and enhancing security
Fix certificate validation to work without legacy CAs.

Summary

Empathy is powerful multi-protocol instant messaging client which

supports Jabber, GTalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and other protocols.

It is built on top of the Telepathy framework.

Update Information:

Fix certificate validation to work without legacy CAs.

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381671 - Fails to connect to Google, with legacy CAs disabled, or with ca-certificates version 2.10 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381671

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade empathy' 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: empathy
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.12.13
Release: 2.fc25
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Summary: Instant Messaging Client for GNOME

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