Kpdf applet crashed when trying to create a new server, if avahi wasn"t running. LZMA compressed man pages bigger than 8KB were not readable using the man:/ kioslave of KDE. The updated packages fix these issues.
The x11-data-xkbdata package distributed with Mandriva Linux 2008 had a different configuration for french keyboards, which prevented the generation of the "oe" symbol through altgr-o, and a few others. This update fixes the problem.
On kdebase as released in Mandriva Linux 2008.0, Khelpcenter could not build an index for the KDE applications manuals, because a required package, htdig, is not in the main repositories. Htdig is now added as suggested package. Also, the Add a network wizard did not show up when browsing the remote:/ kioslave in konqueror. And finally, the icon for Home in the pager applet would appear as a blank ...
Some commercial Windows programs did not run under previous builds of Wine, producing an error message notifying the user that a debugger has been detected. This update corrects the issue.
This drakconf update fixes a bug where some icons were hidden when translations contained certain meta characters. It also fixes a few translation errors, and enables visiting the Mandriva Tour from the Mandriva Control Center.
Updated timezone packages are being provided for older Mandriva Linux systems that do not contain the new Daylight Savings Time information for 2007 and later for certain time zones. These updated packages contain the new information.
The lzma program did not properly check that the closing of output succeeded, which could lead to rare, but possible, data loss. Another issue with liblzmadec was also discovered where programs could crash if decoding of a stream was not properly initialized. This update ensures that output is properly closed so as to avoid silent data loss, and adds consistency checks to liblzmadec so that progra ...
This update fixes a few minor issues like a rare crash on searching , a rare crash when an icon is missing and a crash with non existing packages . We really query local packages with the proper UTF-8 locale.