Fedora 8 Update: nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-15.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-4805
2008-01-07 00:50:26
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Name        : nspluginwrapper
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 0.9.91.5
Release     : 15.fc8
URL         : http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
Summary     : A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins
Description :
nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use Netscape 4 compatible plugins
compiled for ppc into Mozilla for another architecture, e.g. x86_64.

This package consists in:
  * npviewer: the plugin viewer
  * npwrapper.so: the browser-side plugin
  * mozilla-plugin-config: a tool to manage plugins installation and update

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Update Information:

Upstream nspluginwrapper discovered the actual problem of the Flash Player 9.0.115.0 crash.  nspluginwrapper was expecting multithreaded plugins to themselves link and initialize for multithreading.  nspluginwrapper now itself links to libgthread-2.0 and initializes multithreading in npviewer.

This update removes the previous workaround that restricted a browser plugin to a single core.  Multithreaded plugins like Flash Player 9.0.115.0 should work a bit more smoothly on multiple core systems.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec 24 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-15
- Make nsviewer.bin initialized for multithreading, fixes #360891
  Removing previous workaround.
* Tue Dec 18 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-14
- Painfully ugly temporary workaround for flash-plugin-9.0.115.0 crash (#360891)
  Force npviewer.bin CPU affinity, seems to avoid a race condition and crash
  Remove this workaround after Adobe fixes their plugin.
* Thu Dec  6 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-13
- added fix for #393541 - scripts will never fail
* Tue Nov  6 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-12
- more fixes from review by security standards team
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-11
- added fixes from review by security standards team
* Fri Oct 26 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-10
- mozilla-plugin-config can be run by normal user now
* Wed Oct 24 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 0.9.91.5-9
- Updated config utility - removes dangling symlinks and
  wrapped plugins
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #360891 - (SMP race condition) Flash player fails when wrapped, works better natively
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=360891
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Updated packages:

1ede37401d7d675908e34c9c7ccc36d0d0979f57 nspluginwrapper-debuginfo-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.i386.rpm
f0345eb2a39b3cd2f8eeed616c8c0a075fd34524 nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.i386.rpm
06b0172e5033b70f5d4f01111541763b1f461e2c nspluginwrapper-debuginfo-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.x86_64.rpm
e65b968323bb44349622192ae40476f6c938cc97 nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.x86_64.rpm
7d70cf5ee5562d43239639362f2be94cd12c5558 nspluginwrapper-debuginfo-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.ppc.rpm
f52eb1e47f4115866b46a0791a925184a75c94cb nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.ppc.rpm
bb209856e0a864a2c2747d72ade8598d1ec80e63 nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-15.fc8.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nspluginwrapper' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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