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A firefox security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: firefox-79.0-5.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-449743fcc1
2020-08-17 01:07:18.327443
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 79.0
Release : 5.fc31
URL :   https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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Update Information:

- VA-API under Wayland should work as expected now, added fix for mozbz#1656436.
---- - Fixed VA-API video playback
(  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1645671) ---- - New upstream
update - 79.0
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 4 2020 Martin Stransky - 79.0-5
- Added upstream fix for mozbz#1656436.
* Mon Aug 3 2020 Martin Stransky - 79.0-4
- Updated fix for mozbz#1645671
* Thu Jul 30 2020 Martin Stransky - 79.0-3
- Added VA-API fix for mozbz#1645671
* Wed Jul 29 2020 Martin Stransky - 79.0-2
- Try to enable armv7hl again.
- Disabled ppc64le due to cargo crash (rhbz#1862012).
* Mon Jul 27 2020 Martin Stransky - 79.0-1
- Update to 79.0
- Disabled PGO due to rhbz#1849165 (gcc internal error).
* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 78.0.2-5
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul 23 2020 Frantisek Zatloukal - 78.0-4
- Use python3 instead of python2 for build
* Tue Jul 21 2020 Martin Stransky - 78.0-3
- Added fix for mozbz#1651701/rhbz#1855730
* Fri Jul 10 2020 Jan Horak - 78.0.2-2
- Fixing clang build - linker setup
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-449743fcc1' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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