Issued:
2016-08-23
Updated:
2016-08-23

RHEA-2016:1739 - pyserial bug fix and enhancement update for RHV 4.0

Synopsis

pyserial bug fix and enhancement update for RHV 4.0

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

Updated pyserial packages are now available.

Description

This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends for standard Python running on Windows, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX-compliant system) and Jython. The module named "serial" automatically selects the appropriate backend.

Changes to the pyserial component:

  • The pyserial package, previously provided only by the RHEL Optional repository, is now also available in the RHV repository, dropping the requirement on the RHEL Optional repository. (BZ#1356154)

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • pyserial-2.6-5.el7.noarch.rpm
  • pyserial-2.6-5.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information