From davidben at mit.edu  Sat Jun  4 23:52:50 2011
From: davidben at mit.edu (David A Benjamin)
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 19:52:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ANN] nspluginwrapper 1.4.2
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1106041935310.30967@dr-wily.mit.edu>

Hi,

nspluginwrapper 1.4.2 is now available.

Changes from 1.4.0:
* Fix crash in WebKit/GTK when npwrapper.so is incorrectly treated as a plugin
* Fix symbol versioning issues with _Unwind_GetIPInfo on some systems
* Fix install process with parallel make

A release tarball is available here:

http://nspluginwrapper.davidben.net/download/nspluginwrapper-1.4.2.tar.gz

md5sum: 2f87c5af9aafe99e474aac548bc40705
sha1sum: 6bf94c070d8a34d6b7f00f6487bcb9d323284fa3

It's a small bugfix release from 1.4.0. It contains a few odd fixes from 
bugs reported on 1.4.0. The _Unwind_GetIPInfo affects at least Gentoo, 
judging from bug reports. I don't know if it does on other systems. (Our 
nasty stub 32-bit build environment had the wrong symbol version.)

The WebKit/GTK crash is less exciting than it sounds; if your current 
package of 1.4.0 does not trigger it, then you probably do not care much. 
nspluginwrapper installs a template wrapper plugin in some random 
location. This plugin is not intended to be loaded, but some packagers 
symlink it into their plugins directory. In that case, WebKit/GTK-based 
browsers crash with 1.4.0. If this applies to you, that crash is fixed, 
but you also really should drop the symlink. I'll look into maybe 
corrupting the ELF header for 1.6.0 to keep browsers from loading the 
template.

Regards,

David Benjamin