Fedora 25: Shotwell Security Update: Enhances HTTPS and Authentications
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February 2, 2017
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
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-8c3c43cc4f 2017-02-02 16:35:20.084125
Name : shotwell Product : Fedora 25 Version : 0.24.5 Release : 1.fc25 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 25
Version: 0.24.5
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: A photo organizer for the GNOME desktop
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