Latest upstream release: 1.7.9 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 1.7.8 URL: http://www.openwall.com/john/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
release notes: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/11/23/2 * Added optional parallelization of the MD5-based crypt(3) code with OpenMP. * Added optional parallelization of the bitslice DES code with OpenMP. * Replaced the bitslice DES key setup algorithm with a faster one, which significantly improves performance at LM hashes, as well as at DES-based crypt(3) hashes when there's just one salt (or very few salts). * Optimized the DES S-box x86-64 (16-register SSE2) assembly code. * Added support for 10-character DES-based tripcodes (not optimized yet). * Added support for the "$2y$" prefix of bcrypt hashes. * Added two more hash table sizes (16M and 128M entries) for faster processing of very large numbers of hashes per salt (over 1M). * Added two pre-defined external mode variables: "abort" and "status", which let an external mode request the current cracking session to be aborted or the status line to be displayed, respectively. * Made some minor optimizations to external mode function calls and virtual machine implementation. * The "--make-charset" option now uses floating-point rather than 64-bit integer operations, which allows for larger CHARSET_* settings in params.h. * Added runtime detection of Intel AVX and AMD XOP instruction set extensions, with optional fallback to an alternate program binary. * In OpenMP-enabled builds, added support for fallback to a non-OpenMP build when the requested thread count is 1. * Added relbench, a Perl script to compare two "john --test" benchmark runs, such as for different machines, "make" targets, C compilers, optimization options, or/and versions of John the Ripper. * Additional public lists of "top N passwords" have been merged into the bundled common passwords list, and some insufficiently common passwords were removed from the list. * Many minor enhancements and a few bug fixes were made.
john-1.7.9-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/john-1.7.9-1.fc16
john-1.7.9-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/john-1.7.9-1.fc17
Package john-1.7.9-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing john-1.7.9-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9757/john-1.7.9-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
john-1.7.9-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
john-1.7.9-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.