Open Build Service(OBS) 2.1.16 just got released. In first place it is fixing a serious security problem which allows everybody (even without OBS account) to upload binaries to any project and repository. Admins of public OBS instances got a pre warning about this, but it is highly recommended to update every instance now to the final packages. OBS 2.1.16 is published in "openSUSE:Tools:2.1" project: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Tools:2.1/ OBS 2.0.x and before are not affected (bug got introduced by new security enhancements in 2.1 release). This issue is tracked as CVE-2011-4183, bnc#736243 . Some other issues (found by test suite) got fixed as well. Find details in the Release Notes: Feature backports: ================== * Support linking to remote OBS 2.3 package which links to not existing packages. * Support upload of build job results via the api for admin users. Changes: ======== * dropped openSUSE 11.3 from default target list * logrotate files are not installed with .logrotate suffix anymore Bugfixes: ========= * CRITICAL SECURITY FIX: Binary upload of build results was allowed to everybody without permission check (bnc#736243, CVE-2011-4183). * fixed runtime error when checking sourceaccess of links (introduced in 2.1.15) Please excuse this grave issue. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org