Synopsis

spice-protocol enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-protocol packages that add various enhancements are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-protocol packages provide header files to describe the SPICE protocol
and the QXL para-virtualized graphics card. The SPICE protocol is needed to
build newer versions of the spice-client and the spice-server packages.

The spice-protocol packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.12.6, which
provides a number of enhancements over the previous version, including file copy
support, and end-of-line conversion for copying and pasting text using clipboard
when the client and guest conventions differ, or when there are different
operating systems running. (BZ#965812)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• The continuity of video playbacks over limited bandwidth has improved. There
  are now fewer occurrences of scenes dropping and pauses, which leads to a better
  user experience. After this update, the video bit-rate and the playback latency
  are dynamically adjusted, using periodic reports from the client. The bandwidth
  and latency estimations of past video playbacks are now used for improving the
  initial parameter settings of future video playbacks. (BZ#978410)
  

Users of spice-protocol are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
add these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 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 Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 965812 - rebase to latest upstream
• BZ - 978410 - [RFE] adaptive video streaming

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f566ef4cededee01a2622b11a086c4757c65ad2cbf069617bad8fb37fea846a4
x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9
i386
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f566ef4cededee01a2622b11a086c4757c65ad2cbf069617bad8fb37fea846a4
x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9
i386
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f566ef4cededee01a2622b11a086c4757c65ad2cbf069617bad8fb37fea846a4
x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9
i386
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f566ef4cededee01a2622b11a086c4757c65ad2cbf069617bad8fb37fea846a4
x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f566ef4cededee01a2622b11a086c4757c65ad2cbf069617bad8fb37fea846a4
x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9
i386
spice-protocol-0.12.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3391ffeb7ca02388dafbd1df0fbd855cc7346ffbf71ff79af0278c549bd972c9