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A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3. Here the announcement:



Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-821
2005-08-28
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.1376_FC3
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.

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* Fri Aug 26 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1376_FC3]
- Better identify local builds. (#159696)
- Fix disk/net dump & netconsole. (#152586)
- Fix up sleeping in invalid context in sym2 driver. (#164995)
- Fix 'semaphore is not ready' error in snd-intel8x0m.
- Restore hwclock functionality on some systems. (#144894)
- Merge patches proposed for 2.6.12.6
- Fix typo in ALPS driver.
- Fix 'No sense' error with Transcend USB key. (#162559)
- Fix up ide-scsi check for medium not present. (#160868)
- powernow-k8 driver update from 2.6.13rc7

* Tue Aug 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1375_FC3]
- Work around AMD x86-64 errata 122.

* Thu Aug 18 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>
- Don't probe 8250 ports on ppc32 unless they're in the device tree
- Enable ISDN, 8250 console, i8042 keyboard controller on ppc32
- Audit updates from git tree

* Tue Aug 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1374_FC3]
- Restrict ipsec socket policy loading to CAP_NET_ADMIN. (CAN-2005-2555)

* Mon Aug 15 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.11.5
- Fix module_verify_elf check that rejected valid .ko files. (#165528)

* Thu Aug 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Audit speedup in syscall path.
- Update to a newer ACPI drop.

* Wed Aug 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Reenable 586-smp builds. (Another FC4 change that crept in).

* Fri Aug 5 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1373_FC3]
- Sync with FC4 update.
- Add Appletouch support.
- Audit updates. In particular, don't printk audit messages that
are passed from userspace when auditing is disabled.
- update to final 2.6.12.4 patchset.
- ACPI update to 20050729.
- Disable experimental ACPI HOTKEY driver. (#163355)

* Thu Aug 4 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Enable Amiga partition support. (#149802)

* Wed Aug 3 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Silence some messages from PowerMac thermal driver. (#158739)
- nfs server intermitently claimed ENOENT on existing files or directories. (#150759)
- Stop usbhid driver incorrectly claiming Wireless Security Lock as a mouse. (#147479)
- Further NFSD fixing for non-standard ports.
- Fix up miscalculated i_nlink in /proc (#162418)
- Fix addrlen checks in selinux_socket_connect. (#164165)

* Thu Jul 28 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix compilation with older gcc. (#164041)
- Bump mkinitrd minimum requirement.
- Drop the -devel changes that leaked in from the FC4 backport. (#163406)


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

753df12a49a38a9f3a09d29476aaff31 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.src.rpm
98239a277a4d0407e8a2b341c10afd7f x86_64/kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.x86_64.rpm
9f10115a728f0f47c27812e940be4dc5 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.x86_64.rpm
1eed8cfb77a26a83ce1997b551cfef0c x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.x86_64.rpm
efd44f4e12ae365f4a789bf37de211d3 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.noarch.rpm
4c5cc76e85bed920b58d7f2218f2b503 i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i586.rpm
5929676dc3cb7e98e636ed8a786530cf i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i586.rpm
073d020e4a1d6a7fccb1fae5edf10849 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i586.rpm
0dd7e645d472df5902d51a4c633f315f i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i686.rpm
6e4672a0ff6f336489f8240c2097019a i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i686.rpm
ce4442efd8edc5e3cd2af383c9862127 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.i686.rpm
efd44f4e12ae365f4a789bf37de211d3 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.