[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: thunderbird-9.0-4.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17399
2011-12-23 03:10:48
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Name        : thunderbird
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 9.0
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Summary     : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client
Description :
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

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Update Information:

The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes:

* Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
* Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
* Added support for font-stretch
* Improved support for text-overflow
* Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
* Fixed several stability issues
* Fixed several security issues

Notable nss changes include:

1. SSL 2.0 is disabled by default.

2. A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack
demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default.
Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.

3. SHA-224 is supported.

4. Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the
error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code.

5. Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string.

6. Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
(contributed by Hanno Böck, http://rsapss.hboeck.de/).

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 22 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0-4
- Update to 9.0
* Fri Dec  9 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 8.0-4
- enabled gio support (#760644)
* Tue Nov 29 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 8.0-3
- Fixed s390x issues
* Thu Nov 10 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 8.0-2
- Enable Mozilla's crash reporter again for all archs
- Temporary workaround for langpacks
- Disabled addon check UI (#753551)
* Tue Nov  8 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 8.0-1
- Update to 8.0
* Tue Oct 18 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-3
- Added NM patches (mozbz#627672, mozbz#639959)
* Wed Oct 12 2011 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 7.0.1-2
- fix build on secondary arches (copied from xulrunner)
* Fri Sep 30 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-1
- Update to 7.0.1
* Tue Sep 27 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 7.0-1
- Update to 7.0
* Tue Sep  6 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 6.0.2-1
- Update to 6.0.2
* Wed Aug 31 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 6.0-3
- Distrust a specific Certificate Authority
* Wed Aug 31 2011 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 6.0-2
- add secondary-ipc patch from xulrunner
* Tue Aug 16 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 6.0-1
- Update to 6.0
* Tue Aug 16 2011 Remi Collet <remi at fedoraproject.org> 5.0-4
- Don't unzip the langpacks
* Mon Aug 15 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 5.0-3
- Rebuild due to rhbz#728707
* Wed Jul 20 2011 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 5.0-2
- add xulrunner patches for secondary arches
* Tue Jun 28 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 5.0-1
- Update to 5.0
* Tue Jun 21 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 3.1.11-1
- Update to 3.1.11
* Wed May 25 2011 Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> - 3.1.10-2
- rebuild for new hunspell
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update thunderbird' 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
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