Fedora 30: 2020-b00f3fbb69 Moderate: Seamonkey Browser Security Upgrade

SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes

a browser, mail/news client, IRC client, JavaScript debugger, and

a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the

application formerly known as Mozilla Application Suite.

Upgrade to 2.53.1 SeaMonkey-2.53.1, being initially based on the Firefox-56 and

Thunderbird-56 code, incorporates now a lot of backported features and security

fixes from the newer Firefox/Thunderbird versions up to 75. That way it tries to

be a modern browser, preserving the same time the familiar user interface and

the ability to use traditional extensions and addons. This version makes

changes to your profile that can't be reverted in case you want to go back to a

previous version of SeaMonkey. You MUST absolutely do a full backup of your

profile (~/.mozilla/seamonkey/ dir) BEFORE trying to run new version. SeaMonkey

now uses GTK3 library for GUI interface. If you experienced some size issues, go

to "about:config" and try to set "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" preference to "1"

(or any other preferred value). You can also use gtk3's environment variables

GDK_SCALE and/or GDK_DPI_SCALE (useful for HiDPI displays). Since Classic theme

uses system desktop theme, it might behaves incorrectly when the underlying

theme (still) does not support gtk3. Full theme add-ons may need changes

because of user interface and internal changes. If you find any problem with

themes, contact the theme author. Before reporting a problem with the user

interface, please make sure to recreate it with either the Classic or Modern

theme. This version now includes "Lightning" calendar. It becomes a standard

part of Thunderbird/SeaMonkey, being just technically organized as an extension.

This version returns providing of Chatzilla and DOM inspector extensions, just

as it always was before. It is likely you need to update your third party

extensions to newer versions. Poorly designed or incompatible extensions can

cause unpredictable problems. If you encounter some strange issues, try

"seamonkey -safe-mode" from command line. Unfortunately, it is now impossible

to continue support of npapi plugins. Thus, java applets no more work :( . All

modern browsers have dropped such support years ago, and even plugin owners

recommend to not use it anymore. Search "browsers with java support" if you

still need it. Sorry for that. Flash is still supported, at least until its EOL

at the end of 2020. Since 2.53.1, 32-bit version (i686 arch) does not provided,

because no more supported. The old format of keys and certificates storage in

the user profiles still preserved in Fedora. DO NOT TOUCH key3.db and cert8.db

files (as it might be recommended in the upstream release notes) -- they still

works as expected. Please, read upstream release notes for more info

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.1/

* Tue Mar 3 2020 Dmitry Butskoy - 2.53.1-2

- add patch for classic theme (#1808197)

* Fri Feb 28 2020 Dmitry Butskoy - 2.53.1-1

- Upgrade to 2.53.1

- use clang to build

* Mon Sep 9 2019 Dmitry Butskoy - 2.49.5-2

- rebuid to properly handle external lightning extension (#1750450)

* Sat Aug 24 2019 Dmitry Butskoy - 2.49.5-1

- update to 2.49.5

- add support for conditional build of inspector and irc

* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.49.4-5

- add patch for new gettid() in glibc >= 2.30

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1808197 - seamonkey-2.53.1.source is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808197

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b00f3fbb69' 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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