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Fedora 25: Gajim Security Update Fixes Connection And Chat Problems

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2017
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Dive into the recent Gajim release for Fedora 25, which tackles various major bugs and enhances messaging features.
Gajim 0.16.8 * Fix rejoining MUCs after connection loss * Fix Groupchat invites * Fix encoding problems with newer GnuPG versions * Fix old messages randomly reappearing in the ch...

Summary

Gajim is a Jabber client written in PyGTK. The goal of Gajim's developers is

to provide a full featured and easy to use xmpp client for the GTK+ users.

Gajim does not require GNOME to run, even though it exists with it nicely.

Gajim 0.16.8 * Fix rejoining MUCs after connection loss * Fix Groupchat

invites * Fix encoding problems with newer GnuPG versions * Fix old messages

randomly reappearing in the chat window * Fix some problems with IBB

filetransfer * Make XEP-0146 Commands opt-in * Improve sending messages to

your own resources * Improve reliability of delivery recipes * Many minor

bugfixes

[ 1 ] Bug #1456364 - CVE-2016-10376 gajim: XEP-0146 makes it possible to extract plain-text from OTR sessions [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456364

[ 2 ] Bug #1458616 - gajim-0.16.8 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458616

su -c 'dnf upgrade gajim' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.16.8
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Jabber client written in PyGTK

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