Fedora 8 Update: xchat-2.8.4-11.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-0829
2008-01-29 04:55:47
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Name        : xchat
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.8.4
Release     : 11.fc8
URL         : http://www.xchat.org
Summary     : A popular and easy to use graphical IRC (chat) client
Description :
X-Chat is an easy to use graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System.
It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time,
talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers
are possible.

This includes the plugins to run the Perl and Python scripts.

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Update Information:

This update applies an upstream fix for a file descriptor leak  in the
scrollback buffer handling.    Additionally, XChat has been fixed only to use
X11 MIT-SHM  pixmaps when available at runtime.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Jan 19 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org> - 1:2.8.4-11
- fix bug in xchat-2.8.4-shm-pixmaps.patch (Adam Jackson, #429218)
* Thu Jan  3 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1:2.8.4-10
- Rebuild
* Thu Dec 20 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1:2.8.4-9
- xchat-2.8.4-shm-pixmaps.patch: MIT-SHM pixmaps are optional, and when
  using EXA they are not available.  Check that the server supports them
  before trying to create them so we don't crash.
* Wed Dec 19 2007 Kevin Kofler <Kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org> - 1:2.8.4-8
- apply xc284-fix-scrollbfdleak.diff from upstream
* Wed Dec  5 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 1:2.8.4-7
- Fix the icon key in the .desktop file to validate
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #428550 - XChat fails to close scrollback files, causing it to run out of file handles; patch available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428550
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xchat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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