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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-8c6b508d97
2021-05-27 01:28:40.568603
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora EPEL 8
Version : 2.9
Release : 5.el8
URL :
http://w1.fi/hostapd
Summary : IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Description :
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It
implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP
Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back-ground and
acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports
separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is
included with hostapd.
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Update Information:
Enable CONFIG_OWE build option in order to provide WPA3 capability
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ChangeLog:
* Tue May 11 2021 John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> - 2.9-5
- Enable CONFIG_OWE build option in order to provide WPA3 capability
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1937537 - [RFE][EPEL8 ]Enable WPA3 (CONFIG_OWE=y and CONFIG_SAE=y) in hostapd
by default
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937537
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
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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