Yes, we do know this.  Updating is on my list but I may not be able to get to it soon.  You're welcome to help us identify any issues we may have with pushing an update to F11.

I did a preliminary quick and dirty hack on the .spec file, and was able to get it building with minimal changes to the patches.

If you like, I can clean up what I've done so far and attack it.

You are more than welcome to do so; I spent a few minutes doing some of that but I'm happy to not have to do all of it.

Note that I'd have to know that an update to 1.24.2 will work without a zmupgrade call before it could be pushed to F-11.  We can't push out upgrades that require admin intervention, and I'm not entirely sure it's safe to call zmupgrade in %post.  The zoneminder forums indicate that there are some database changes in 1.24.2 but I don't yet know if things run without them.

I have successfully run 1.24.2 against a database from 1.24.1. To confirm, I've reviewed the upgrade script - there are no structural changes.

The only thing of any significance are replacements of the preset capture modes. I presume the old ones will still work, but I have not got a local camera to test with (I'm running ZoneMinder in a VM with an IP camera).

scratch build for 1.24.2 on F-11: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1487211
I believe I rebased the patches that needed it correctly.  This does not include any additional Perl module dependencies.

I'll be testing this today without a zmupdate run and if it passes I'll go ahead and add the additional Perl deps, push it for rawhide and submit it to F-11 updates-testing.  We'll still need to research whether we want to push it to F-11 updates; I'm generally reticent to do that although my understanding is that 1.24.2 fixes significant issues on 64-bit machines.

Bah, never mind, that build is hosed and won't actually start.

Looks like the build process for zmupdate.pl changed, so I tweaked the patches.  This build appears to work:
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1487329

however, I'm finding that things aren't working so well after updating to this package; my zones don't seem to go into alarm properly and the navigation controls on the event view aren't working.  The latter may be a mootools issue, though; I'll try with 1.2.1 instead of 1.2.3.

Going back to mootools 1.2 makes the preview in the timeline view work again, but nothing seems to help the navigation buttons so I'm at a loss.  I'm going back to 1.24.1 on my server until I can figure this out, even though it has other weird problems.

zoneminder-1.24.2-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/zoneminder-1.24.2-2.fc11

I ended up figuring out the issues and have been running an updated package for the past couple of days on my main camera server with no issues.  I went ahead and committed the updated package to rawhide and F-11 and pushed an update to F-11 updates-testing.  Please test.

Great work guys, thanks.

zoneminder-1.24.2-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update zoneminder'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7949

Jason, I've been using this for a month now both through the web and with the mythtv plugin. I didn't upgrade my database at all. Everything seems fine and I'm happy to push this to stable - do you agree?

At this point I don't see any reason not to do so.  It would be nice, however, if the folks who tested this would comment on the update ticket.

It works fine for me, however, I am using a somewhat butchered version, as my cameras require FFMPEG to work with Zoneminder, so this may invalidate my results.

zoneminder-1.24.2-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.