[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: icedtea-web-1.4.2-0.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2088
2014-02-06 03:10:13
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Name        : icedtea-web
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.4.2
Release     : 0.fc20
URL         : http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web
Summary     : Additional Java components for OpenJDK - Java browser plug-in and Web Start implementation
Description :
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plugin, an implementation
of Java Web Start (originally based on the Netx project) and a settings tool to
manage deployment settings for the aforementioned plugin and Web Start
implementations.

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Update Information:

New in release 1.4.2 (2014-02-05):
* Dialogs center on screen before becoming visible
* Support for u45 new manifest attributes (Application-Name)
* Custom applet permission policies panel in itweb-settings control panel
* Plugin
  - PR1271: icedtea-web does not handle 'javascript:'-protocol URLs
  - RH976833: Multiple applets on one page cause deadlock
  - Enabled javaconsole
  - RH1010958: insecure temporary file use flaw in LiveConnect implementation


Except above also:
 - Christmas splashscreen extension
 - fixed classloading deadlocks
 - cleaned code from warnings
 - pipes moved to XDG runtime dir 
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb  4 2014 Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> 1.4.2-0
- updated to 1.4.2
- removed upstreamed patches
* Tue Dec 17 2013 Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> 1.4.1-1
- added and applied patch0, christmasSplash3.diff. Will be upstreamed
- Christmas release for Fedora !-)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update icedtea-web' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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