Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHEA-2012:0760 - spice-protocol enhancement update

Synopsis

spice-protocol enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated spice-protocol package that adds several enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-protocol package contains header files that describe the SPICE protocol and the QXL para-virtualized graphics card. The SPICE protocol is needed to build newer versions of the spice-client and the spice-server packages.

• The spice-protocol package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.10.1, which provides a number of enhancements over the previous version, including support for USB redirection. (BZ#758088)

All users who build spice packages are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• spice-protocol-0.10.1-5.el6.noarch.rpm
• spice-protocol-0.10.1-5.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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