[Sugar-devel] Browse, vulnerable

Tony Anderson tony_anderson at usa.net
Tue Feb 2 22:18:33 EST 2016


Hi, James

What is OLPC OS?

Tony

On 02/03/2016 11:11 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> I've no plans yet for a newer WebKit in OLPC OS.  But don't let that
> hold Sugar back.
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 01:48:43PM +1100, Sam P. wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Borwse could eaisly be ported now, as webkit 2.11.4 finally includes essential
>> apis for functionality. Maybe this will be for next cycle?
>>
>> Will the newer webkit version be avliable downstream on OLPC OS, or will you
>> use the older webkit1 browse?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 3, 2016, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> An interesting blog post describing the situation with WebKit security
>>> updates:
>>>
>>> [2]https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/
>>>
>>> Browse in Sugar is without security updates because it depends on
>>> an old WebKit version of WebKitGTK+, and the great API break called
>>> WebKit2 has not yet been fixed in a Browse release.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Cameron
>>> [3]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Sugar-devel mailing list
>>> [4]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> [5]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
>> [2] https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/
>> [3] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>> [4] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> [5] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel



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