[El-errata] ELBA-2021-3790 Oracle Linux 8 tzdata bug fix and enhancement update

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Wed Oct 13 09:25:03 PDT 2021


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-3790

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-3790.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
tzdata-2021c-1.el8.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2021c-1.el8.noarch.rpm

aarch64:
tzdata-2021c-1.el8.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2021c-1.el8.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/tzdata-2021c-1.el8.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2021c-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021c
  - Revert most of 2021b changes to 'backward'.
  - Fix 'zic -b fat' bug in pre-1970 32-bit data.
  - Fix two Link line typos.
  - Distribute SECURITY file.

[2021b-2]
- Bump release.

[2021b-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021b
  - Innclude patch for Mayen
  - Jordan now starts DST on February's last Thursday.
  - Samoa no longer observes DST.
  - Merge more location-based Zones whose timestamps agree since 1970.
  - Move some backward-compatibility links to 'backward'.
  - Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton.
  - Correct many pre-1993 transitions in Malawi, Portugal, etc.
  - zic now creates each output file or link atomically.
  - zic -L no longer omits the POSIX TZ string in its output.
  - zic fixes for truncation and leap second table expiration.
  - zic now follows POSIX for TZ strings using all-year DST.
  - Fix some localtime crashes and bugs in obscure cases.
  - zdump -v now outputs more-useful boundary cases.
  - tzfile.5 better matches a draft successor to RFC 8536.




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