RHEA-2011:0641 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced libcmpiutil package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libcmpiutil library provides an API for performing common tasks with various
Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) providers.

This updated libcmpiutil package adds the following enhancement:

• The libcmpiutil package has been upgraded to upstream version 8.5.4, which

improves performance and is a prerequisite for the new interfaces provided by
the libvirt-cim package update as the package depends on the libcmpiutil
library. (BZ#633332)

Users of libcmpiutil are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds
this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 604551 - libcmpiutil has extra characters after %{?dist}
• BZ - 633332 - [6.1 FEAT] performance enhancements to libcmpiutil

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)