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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0400
2013-02-20 17:09:18
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Name : bitlbee
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 3.2
Release : 1.el5
URL :
http://www.bitlbee.org/
Summary : IRC to other chat networks gateway
Description :
Bitlbee is an IRC to other chat networks gateway. Bitlbee can be used as
an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat
networks like ICQ/AIM, MSN, XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk), Yahoo or
Twitter!
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Update Information:
BitlBee 3.2
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* By far the most important change, a thorough update to the Twitter module:
* Now using Twitter API 1.1,
* which means it's now using JSON instead of XML,
* which means access to the streaming API (Twitter only, other Twitter API services
don't seem to have it). No more 60-second polls, #twitter looks even more like real
IRC now!
* Also, the streaming API means nice things like receiving DMs.
* show_ids, already enabled by default for a while, now uses hexadecimal numbers,
which means a 256-entry backlog instead of just 100.
* Added a mode=strict setting which requires everything to be a command. The
"post" command should then be used to post a Tweet.
* Jabber module bugfix that fixes connection issues with at least Google Talk but
reportedly some other servers (OpenFire?) as well.
* SSL modules improved a little bit. GnuTLS module now supports SNI and session caching.
Shouldn't change much, but hopefully reduces latency and bandwidth usage a little
bit.
* A bunch of other fixes/improvements here and there.
BitlBee 3.0.6
=============
* Updated MSN module to speak MSNP18:
* Biggest change is that this brings MPOP support (you can sign in to one account from
multiple locations).
* Restored support for *sending* offline messages.
* Some support for federated (i.e. Yahoo!) contacts. (Only messages might work, you
won't see them online.)
* Twitter:
* Work-around for stalls that are still happening sometimes.
* Added "favourite" command.
* "show_ids" enabled by default.
* Handle see-other-host Jabber messages which should fix support for MSN-XMPP.
* Misc. fixes and improvements.
BitlBee 3.0.5
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* SSL certificate verification (edit your bitlbee.conf to enable it). Works only with
GnuTLS!
* OAuth2 support in Jabber module (works with Google Talk, Facebook and MSN Messenger).
* Support for ad-hoc Jabber groupchats. Just create a channel and start inviting people,
similar to how this works on other IM networks. Works fine with GTalk, depends on a
conference server being set up on other networks.
* Allow old-style Jabber login (non-SASL), this solves problems with some old/buggy Jabber
servers. (acc jabber set sasl off)
* Use HTTPS for OAuth1 authentication traffic.
* Awareness of Twitter's t.co URL lengt^Wshortening when checking message length.
* Fixed identi.ca OAuth support. OAuth will now always be used for both Twitter and
identi.ca accounts.
* Fix nick_format=%full_name with libpurple.
* Instead of "protocol(handle)", use the account tags introduced in 3.0 when
root wants to refer to an account (in log messages, queries, etc.)
* Many small bugfixes, improvements, etc.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #912675 - Package BitlBee 3.2 (current package will break with Twitter on
2013-03-05 due to new API)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912675
[ 2 ] Bug #805302 - CVE-2012-1187 bitlbee: does not drop extra group privileges
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805302
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update bitlbee' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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