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This package contains a collection of image format handlers for the Tk
photo image type, and a new image type, pixmaps.
Update to 2.1.1, update bundled libtiff to 4.7.2.
* Thu Aug 27 2026 Tom Callaway - 2.1.1-1 - update to 2.1.1 - bump libtiff to 4.7.2 (the tkimg libtiff library glue still versions at 4.7.1, because I didn't want to break compat when/if upstream makes a similar change) * Fri Jul 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1.0-3 - Rebuilt for
* Thu Aug 27 2026 Tom Callaway - 2.1.1-1 - update to 2.1.1 - bump libtiff to 4.7.2 (the tkimg libtiff library glue still versions at 4.7.1, because I didn't want to break compat when/if upstream makes a similar change) * Fri Jul 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1.0-3 - Rebuilt for
[ 1 ] Bug #2494144 - CVE-2026-12912 tkimg: libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow via crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image [fedora-all]
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-a6d01967c6' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
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