On Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:49:38 PM MST home user wrote:
I signed in to zoom a short while ago to schedule a meeting, and
found the
following three notices:
New Features
Our latest release went live on April 12th. Please subscribe to our blog and
visit our release notes to stay up-to-date on all the latest enhancements
to your account. To update to the latest version of Zoom, visit our
download page.
Important Notice
Please begin updating all your clients to Zoom 5.0 now. After May 30, 2020,
all Zoom clients on older versions will receive a forced upgrade when
trying to join meetings as GCM Encryption will be fully enabled across the
Zoom platform. Click here for more information.
New Features
Our latest release went live on April 7th. Check out our blog to review the
new enhancements for ensuring the security and privacy of your account. To
update to the latest version of Zoom, visit our download page.
Some time ago, at the suggestion of someone in this list, I used dnf
to
install zoom on my work station. I just checked with dnf to see what I
currently have: -bash.3[~]: dnf info zoom
Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:48 ago on Thu 14 May 2020 06:49:20 PM
MDT. Installed Packages
Name : zoom
Version : 2.8.252201.0616
Release : 1
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 235 M
Source : zoom-2.8.252201.0616-1.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : @commandline
No updates are available:
-bash.4[~]: dnf upgrade zoom
Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 - Updates 59 kB/s | 17 kB 00:00
Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates 36 kB/s | 11 kB
00:00 Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates 909 kB/s | 3.0 MB
00:03 Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
-bash.4[~]:
Will an update be available via dnf before zoom starts rejecting the release
that I currently have?
No, there will not be. Zoom isn't packaged in Fedora. You manually installed
it. You'll have to reach out to the vendor for that one.
--
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity