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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7785
2009-07-19 03:26:46
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Name : mediawiki
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.15.1
Release : 48.fc11
URL :
http://www.mediawiki.org/
Summary : A wiki engine
Description :
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
servers
This package supports wiki farms. Copy /var/www/wiki over to the
desired wiki location and configure it through the web
interface. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the
configuration.
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Update Information:
This update upgrades mediawiki code to 1.15.1 and fixes some path references.
Upstream comments: This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.1
and 1.14.1. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered. Only
versions 1.14.0, 1.15.0 and release candidates for those releases are affected.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jul 13 2009 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 1.15.1-48
- Update to 1.15.1 (Fixes XSS vulnerability).
* Sat Jul 11 2009 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 1.15.0-47
- Fix api.php breakage.
* Sat Jun 13 2009 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 1.15.0-46
- Update to 1.15.0.
* Thu Apr 16 2009 S390x secondary arch maintainer <fedora-s390x@lists.fedoraproject.org>
- ExcludeArch sparc64, s390, s390x as we don't have OCaml on those archs
(added sparc64 per request from the sparc maintainer)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #484855 - mediawiki api.php has bad path
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484855
[ 2 ] Bug #494362 - maintenance scripts fail
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494362
[ 3 ] Bug #494880 - Uploading fails
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494880
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mediawiki' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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