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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-ac3b1d7930
2019-09-29 02:22:09.538643
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Name : nbdkit
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 1.12.8
Release : 1.fc29
URL :
https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit
Summary : NBD server
Description :
NBD is a protocol for accessing block devices (hard disks and
disk-like things) over the network.
nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.
The key features are:
* Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance.
* Minimal dependencies for the basic server.
* Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary
libraries or included in proprietary code.
* Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee.
Lets you to export "unconventional" block devices easily.
* You can write plugins in C or many other languages.
* Filters can be stacked in front of plugins to transform the output.
In Fedora, 'nbdkit' is a meta-package which pulls in the core server
and a useful subset of plugins and filters.
If you want just the server, install 'nbdkit-server'.
To develop plugins, install the 'nbdkit-devel' package and start by
reading the nbdkit(1) and nbdkit-plugin(3) manual pages.
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Update Information:
New upstream version 1.12.8. Fixes second Denial of Service attack:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Sep 20 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.8-1
- New upstream version 1.12.8.
- Fixes second Denial of Service attack:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html
* Thu Sep 12 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.7-1
- New upstream version 1.12.7.
- Fixes Denial of Service / Amplication Attack:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html
* Thu Aug 29 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.6-1
- New stable version 1.12.6.
* Fri Aug 2 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.5-1
- New stable version 1.12.5.
* Fri Jul 26 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.4-1
- New stable version 1.12.4.
* Tue May 21 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.3-1
- New stable version 1.12.3.
* Tue Apr 23 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.2-1
- New stable version 1.12.2.
- Distribute BENCHMARKING and SECURITY files.
- Includes a fix for possible remote memory heap leak with user plugins.
* Sat Apr 13 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.1-1
- New stable version 1.12.1.
* Wed Apr 10 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.12.0-1
- New upstream version 1.12.0.
- Add noextents filter.
* Mon Apr 8 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.15-1
- New upstream version 1.11.15.
* Sat Apr 6 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.14-1
- New upstream version 1.11.14.
- Remove deprecated nbdkit-xz-plugin (replaced by nbdkit-xz-filter).
* Tue Apr 2 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.13-1
- New upstream version 1.11.13.
* Tue Apr 2 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.12-1
- New upstream version 1.11.12.
- New nbdkit-readahead-filter.
* Fri Mar 29 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.11-1
- New upstream version 1.11.11.
* Thu Mar 28 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.10-1
- New upstream version 1.11.10.
* Sat Mar 23 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.9-1
- New upstream version 1.11.9.
* Tue Mar 12 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.8-1
- New upstream version 1.11.8.
- Remove workaround for QEMU bug which is fixed in Fedora 30+.
- Make the tests run in parallel, otherwise they are too slow.
* Thu Mar 7 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.7-1
- New upstream version 1.11.7.
- Add nbdkit ssh plugin.
- Remove patches already upstream.
* Tue Mar 5 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.6-2
- Add nbdkit rate filter.
* Fri Mar 1 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.6-1
- New upstream version 1.11.6.
- Add linuxdisk plugin.
- Remove rust plugin if compiled.
* Tue Feb 5 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.5-1
- New upstream version 1.11.5.
* Fri Feb 1 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.11.4-2
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jan 30 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.4-1
- New upstream version 1.11.4.
* Mon Jan 28 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.3-1
- New upstream version 1.11.3.
* Thu Jan 24 2019 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.11.2-2
- F-30: rebuild against ruby26
* Thu Jan 24 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.2-1
- New upstream version 1.11.2.
- Drop patches included in upstream tarball.
* Thu Jan 24 2019 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.11.1-2
- F-30: rebuild again against ruby26
* Tue Jan 22 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.1-1
- New upstream version 1.11.1.
* Mon Jan 21 2019 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-2
- F-30: rebuild against ruby26
* Fri Jan 18 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.10.0-1
- New upstream version 1.10.0.
* Tue Jan 15 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.10-1
- New upstream version 1.9.10.
* Mon Jan 14 2019 Bj��rn Esser <besser82(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.9-2
- Rebuilt for libcrypt.so.2 (#1666033)
* Mon Jan 7 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.9-1
- New upstream version 1.9.9.
* Tue Jan 1 2019 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.8-1
- New upstream version 1.9.8.
* Mon Dec 17 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.7-2
- Remove misguided LDFLAGS hack which removed server hardening.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624149#c6
* Sat Dec 15 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.7-1
- New upstream version 1.9.7.
* Thu Dec 13 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.6-1
- New upstream version 1.9.6.
- Add nbdkit-full-plugin.
* Mon Dec 10 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.5-1
- New upstream version 1.9.5.
* Tue Dec 4 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.4-1
- New upstream version 1.9.4.
- Fix low priority security issue with TLS:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-December/msg00047.html
- New man page nbdkit-loop(1).
* Thu Nov 29 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.3-1
- New upstream version 1.9.3.
* Thu Nov 22 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.2-1
- New upstream version 1.9.2.
- Add new filter subpackage: nbdkit-xz-filter.
- Deprecate (but do not remove) nbdkit-xz-plugin.
* Sun Nov 18 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.1-1
- New upstream version 1.9.1.
* Wed Nov 14 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.9.0-1
- New upstream version 1.9.0.
- New development branch.
* Mon Nov 12 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.8.0-1
- New stable branch version 1.8.0.
* Fri Nov 9 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.10-1
- New upstream version 1.7.10, possibly final before 1.8.
* Tue Nov 6 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.9-2
- nbdkit metapackage should depend on versioned -server subpackage etc.
* Tue Nov 6 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.9-1
- New upstream version 1.7.9.
* Tue Oct 30 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.8-1
- New upstream version 1.7.8.
* Mon Oct 29 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.7-1
- New upstream version 1.7.7.
- New nbdkit-floppy-plugin subpackage.
* Wed Oct 17 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.6-1
- New upstream version 1.7.6.
- New nbdkit-iso-plugin subpackage.
* Tue Oct 16 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.5-1
- New upstream version 1.7.5.
* Tue Oct 2 2018 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 1.7.4-1
- New upstream version 1.7.4.
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