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Fedora 43 freerdp Important Update Notification 2026-fa672d26a8

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Security advisory for Fedora 43 updating freerdp to versions 3.30.0 and 3.29.0, addressing critical issues and enhancements.
Update to 3.30.0 Update to 3.29.0

Summary

The xfreerdp & wlfreerdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients from the FreeRDP

project.

xfreerdp & wlfreerdp can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows

machines, xrdp and VirtualBox.

Update Information:

Update to 3.30.0 Update to 3.29.0

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Change Log

* Thu Jul 16 2026 Ondrej Holy - 2:3.30.0-1 - Update to 3.30.0 Resolves: rhbz#2501274 * Wed Jul 15 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:3.29.0-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 15 2026 Ondrej Holy - 2:3.29.0-1 - Update to 3.29.0 Resolves: rhbz#2499994

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2499994 - freerdp-3.29.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499994 [ 2 ] Bug #2501274 - freerdp-3.30.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501274

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-fa672d26a8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: freerdp
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 3.30.0
Release: 1.fc43
URL: http://www.freerdp.com/
Summary: Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

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