-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-0829 2008-01-29 04:55:47 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xchat Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.8.4 Release : 11.fc8 URL : http://www.xchat.org Summary : A popular and easy to use graphical IRC (chat) client Description : X-Chat is an easy to use graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.
This includes the plugins to run the Perl and Python scripts.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update applies an upstream fix for a file descriptor leak in the scrollback buffer handling. Additionally, XChat has been fixed only to use X11 MIT-SHM pixmaps when available at runtime. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Sat Jan 19 2008 Kevin Kofler Kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org - 1:2.8.4-11 - fix bug in xchat-2.8.4-shm-pixmaps.patch (Adam Jackson, #429218) * Thu Jan 3 2008 Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com 1:2.8.4-10 - Rebuild * Thu Dec 20 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 1:2.8.4-9 - xchat-2.8.4-shm-pixmaps.patch: MIT-SHM pixmaps are optional, and when using EXA they are not available. Check that the server supports them before trying to create them so we don't crash. * Wed Dec 19 2007 Kevin Kofler Kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org - 1:2.8.4-8 - apply xc284-fix-scrollbfdleak.diff from upstream * Wed Dec 5 2007 Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com - 1:2.8.4-7 - Fix the icon key in the .desktop file to validate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #428550 - XChat fails to close scrollback files, causing it to run out of file handles; patch available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428550 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xchat' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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