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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7196
2015-07-14 14:55:29
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Name : ipython
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 3.2.1
Release : 1.el7
URL :
http://ipython.org/
Summary : An enhanced interactive Python shell
Description :
IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with
extra functionality.
Main features:
* Comprehensive object introspection.
* Input history, persistent across sessions.
* Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated
references.
* Readline based name completion.
* Extensible system of 'magic' commands for controlling the environment and
performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system.
* Configuration system with easy switching between different setups (simpler
than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time).
* Session logging and reloading.
* Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.
* Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
* Easily embeddable in other Python programs.
* Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.
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Update Information:
IPython 3.2.1 is a small bugfix release, primarily for cross-site security fixes in the
notebook. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. There are also a few small
unicode and nbconvert-related fixes.
IPython 3.2 contains important security fixes. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade
immediately.
Highlights:
- Address cross-site scripting vulnerabilities CVE-2015-4706, CVE-2015-4707
- A security improvement that set the secure attribute to login cookie to prevent them to
be sent over http
- Revert the face color of matplotlib axes in the inline backend to not be transparent.
- Enable mathjax safe mode by default
- Fix XSS vulnerability in JSON error messages
- Various widget-related fixes
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1235688 - CVE-2015-4706 CVE-2015-4707 ipython: IPython 3.2 contains important
security fixes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235688
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update ipython' 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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