This update updates QtWebEngine to the 5.8.0 release. QtWebEngine 5.8.0 is part of the Qt 5.8.0 release, but only the QtWebEngine component is included in this update.
The update fixes the following security issues in QtWebEngine 5.7.1: CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5183, CVE-2016-5189, CVE-2016-5199, CVE-2016-5201, CVE-2016-5203, CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5206, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5210, CVE-2016-5211, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5214, CVE-2016-5215. CVE-2016-5216, CVE-2016-5217, CVE-2016-5218, CVE-2016-5219, CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5223, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-9650 and CVE-2016-9651.
Other immediately usable changes in QtWebEngine 5.8 include:
view-source:
scheme is now supported.@include
, @exclude
, @match
) as in Greasemonkey.chrome:
schemes now supported, for instance chrome://gpu
.The following changes in QtWebEngine 5.8 require compile-time application support and will only be available after applications are rebuilt (and patched to remove the checks for Qt 5.8, because Qt is still version 5.7.1, only QtWebEngine is being updated):
bdic
format used by QtWebEngine (using an RPM file trigger). If you wish to use dictionaries installed manually, use the included qwebengine_convert_dict
tool. Alternatively, you can also download dictionaries directly in the Chromium bdic
format.lpr
command-line tool. But other applications such as KMail require the new direct printing API.)The following new QML APIs are available to developers:
eglfs
uses builtin dialogs based on Qt Quick Controls 2.Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2017-c5b2c9a435
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This update has been submitted for testing by kkofler.
This update has been pushed to testing.
This update has been submitted for stable by kkofler.
This update has been pushed to stable.