[ MDVA-2009:251 ] mdkonline

[dude67]

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Package : mdkonline
Date : December 10, 2009
Affected: 2008.1
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Problem Description:

This update fixes several issues regarding the live upgrade to a more
recent distribution, notably:
- new distributions are now only presented after all updates were
applied.
- if current distribution is no more supported, we will about it and
offer to upgrade to a newer release

It also fix a couple crashes:
- a rare crash (bug #55346)
- gracefully handle (rare) server issues (bugs #51299 & #51548)

Now passwords with special caracters are properly managed.
For security, we now access api.mandriva.com through the https
protocol.

The applet now offer to configure a couple settings.

Last but not least, it now more efficient system power usage
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