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author | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2021-10-11 14:18:29 +0100 |
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committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2021-10-11 14:18:29 +0100 |
commit | 58f9ed8aaca7595acdc4e4a4c63c79878f9b888b (patch) | |
tree | 4a151a97a56c772a1f8b24db7d1cacdc5a9c32ec | |
parent | d30d1398adc26430d5c99a2b960a98f4f98e0d9b (diff) | |
parent | 666dc8dbcdf5cb796fd3e1febe3388a520c0e23e (diff) | |
download | flatpak-58f9ed8aaca7595acdc4e4a4c63c79878f9b888b.tar.gz |
Merge NEWS from branch 'flatpak-1.12.x'
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@@ -1,16 +1,36 @@ +Changes in 1.12.2 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Released: (not released yet) + + * Install translations referenced by LANG, LANGUAGE or LC_ALL + * Fix error handling for the syscalls that are blocked when not using --devel + * Improve diagnostic messages when seccomp rules cannot be applied + * Update Polish translation + +Changes in 1.12.1 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Released: 2021-10-08 + +The security fix in the 1.12.0 release failed when used with some +older versions of libseccomp (that don't know about the new syscalls). + +More specifically, installing modules that use extra-data would fail, and so +would running applications with the --allow=multiarch feature, such as Steam. +This release fixes those regressions. + Changes in 1.12.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2021-10-08 This is the first stable release in the 1.12.x series. The major changes in this series is the support for better control of sub-sandboxes, as -used by the steam flatpak. +used by the Steam Flatpak app to run Windows games under Proton. In addition, this release fixes a security vulnerability in the portal support. Some recently added syscalls were not blocked by the seccomp rules which allowed the application to create sub-sandboxes which can confuse the sandboxing verification mechanisms of the portal. This has been -fixed by extending the seccomp rules. +fixed by extending the seccomp rules. (CVE-2021-41133) For details, see: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-67h7-w3jq-vh4q |