- Update to 52.0.1 - All patches synchronized with firefox. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-674d306f51 2017-04-07 12:24:08.266159 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : icecat Product : Fedora 25 Version : 52.0.1 Release : 5.fc25 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ Summary : GNU version of Firefox browser Description : GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR. Extensions included to this version of IceCat: * LibreJS GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap. * SpyBlock Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus. * AboutIceCat Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and check-boxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites. * HTML5-video-everywhere Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources * Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characterisics of that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - Update to 52.0.1 - All patches synchronized with firefox -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1429252 - icecat does not compile on aarch64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429252 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade icecat' 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 --
icecat-38.3.0-10.fc23 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc22 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc21 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-85bfa4ba56 2015-11-09 20:16:02.514184 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : icecat Product : Fedora 23 Version : 38.3.0 Release : 10.fc23 URL : Summary : GNU version of Firefox browser Description : GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox. Four extensions are included to this version of IceCat: * LibreJS 6.0.10.20150620 GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap. * SpyBlock 2.6.9.0 Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus. * AboutIceCat 1.0 Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and check-boxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites. * HTML5-video-everywhere 0.3.3 Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: icecat-38.3.0-10.fc23 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc22 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc21 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update icecat' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPGkey. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list
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