On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jan Iven wrote:
>
>> Just a quick heads-up for things we have seen with the 3.0.8 quarterly
>> update:
<snip>
>> * the freetype library had some issues with TTF fonts, we noticed this
>> via some PHP code/broken imagemaps. An updated version of freetype is
>> available and fixes this.
>
> Will put in this new version because of this?

I assume that this is related to RHBA-2006-0620 which says:

   A recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 security update of freetype
   (RHSA-2006:0500) caused an ABI change to the library, resulting in
   various crashes throughout the desktop.

Therefore freetype needs to update to freetype-2.1.4-5.el3.src.rpm on 
anything that applied the update to freetype-2.1.4-4.0.rhel3.2.src.rpm 
(this was a security update so was released for SL30...)

Although RHBA-2006-0620 is *not* a security release (it is marked as 
bugfix!), it fixes a problem caused by a security update so probably 
*should* be considered for release for all SL3* versions...

(In my opinion anyway)!

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Jon Peatfield,  Computer Officer,  DAMTP,  University of Cambridge
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