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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23910
2013-12-24 02:44:45
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Name : rdesktop
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 1.8.1
Release : 1.fc20
URL :
http://www.rdesktop.org/
Summary : X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
Description :
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
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Update Information:
From upstream changelog:
* Fix a typo in configure.ac
* Fix a bug which made rdesktop steal CPU cycles.
* Fix issue with reconnect, make use of deactivate variable
* Added 4 new disconnect reasons with exit codes
* Fix issues of window handling in SeamlessRDP parts of rdesktop
* Fix a backward compability with OpenSSL < 0.9.9
* Fix a bug when code needs a x window available but there are none.
* Fix a sigsegv zeroing memory
* Fix a 64bit portability issue
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Dec 23 2013 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm(a)greysector.net> - 1.8.1-1
- update to 1.8.1
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #998630 - rdesktop 1.8.0 segfault when caching of bitmaps is enabled
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998630
[ 2 ] Bug #998676 - [abrt] rdesktop-1.8.0-1.fc19: XPutImage: Process /usr/bin/rdesktop
was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998676
[ 3 ] Bug #1007611 - rdesktop can't connect to VirtualBox any more (already fixed
upstream)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007611
[ 4 ] Bug #1031627 - rdesktop-1.8.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031627
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rdesktop' 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 Project 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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