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Fedora 44 libopenmpt 0.8.6 Crucial Security and Bug Fixes Update

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for Fedora 44's libopenmpt to version 0.8.6 includes security fixes and resolves prior regression issues.
Update from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to fix regression: updates-0.8.6-0.7.19-0.6.28-0.5.42-0.4.54/ Potential security fix plus bug-fixes in 0.8.5:

Summary

libopenmpt is a cross-platform C++ and C library to decode tracked music

files (modules) into a raw PCM audio stream.

libopenmpt is based on the player code of the OpenMPT project (Open

ModPlug Tracker). In order to avoid code base fragmentation, libopenmpt is

developed in the same source code repository as OpenMPT.

Update Information:

Update from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to fix regression:

updates-0.8.6-0.7.19-0.6.28-0.5.42-0.4.54/ Potential security fix plus bug-fixes in 0.8.5:

updates-0.8.5-0.7.18-0.6.27-0.5.41-0.4.53/

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Change Log

* Tue Mar 24 2026 Michael Schwendt - 0.8.6-1 - update to 0.8.6 which fixes regression in 0.8.5 * Sun Mar 22 2026 Michael Schwendt - 0.8.5-1 - update to 0.8.5

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-b58c5b3cc0 2026-03-27 00:14:48.799149+00:00 Name : libopenmpt Product : Fedora 44 Version : 0.8.6 Release : 1.fc44 URL : https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/ Summary : C/C++ library to decode tracker music module (MOD) files Description : libopenmpt is a cross-platform C++ and C library to decode tracked music files (modules) into a raw PCM audio stream. libopenmpt is based on the player code of the OpenMPT project (Open ModPlug Tracker). In order to avoid code base fragmentation, libopenmpt is developed in the same source code repository as OpenMPT.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-b58c5b3cc0' 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: libopenmpt
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 0.8.6
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/
Summary: C/C++ library to decode tracker music module (MOD) files

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security advisory security issue fedora bug fix important libopenmpt

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