Fedora 12 Update: xscreensaver-5.10-4.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13092
2009-12-11 16:39:28
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Name        : xscreensaver
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 5.10
Release     : 4.fc12
URL         : http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Summary     : X screen saver and locker
Description :
A modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System.
More than 200 display modes are included in this package.

This is a metapackage for installing all default packages
related to XScreenSaver.

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Update Information:

There was some bug reports against xscreensaver hacks.    One is that substrate
crashes on occasion (bug 545847). This new  rpm will fix this. The other is that
apple2 crashes on occasion (bug 540790). This new rpm may fix this issue (note
that there was a bug in apple2 anyway and this rpm fixed it).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 11 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1:5.10-4
- Fix occasional crash on substrate (bug 545847)
- Fix initialization process on apple2, hopefully fix bug 540790??
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #540790 - 5.10 apple2 sometimes crashes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540790
  [ 2 ] Bug #545847 - substrate crashes on occasion
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545847
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xscreensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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