Upgrade process and v1.2.2 pre release

[jeroenj]

The currently bundled version of wkhtmltopdf is v1.2.1. Since last week a lot of web hosts have disabled SSLv3 because of the POODLE attack.
wkhtmltopdf v1.2.1 (and earlier) still use SSLv3 by default. This has been changed in the current testing release (v1.2.2.testing).

I was having a look to create a patch with the updated (testing) binaries so we could use this pre version in our app right now (since we rely on assets deliverd over https with SSLv3 disabled). Is there any good way to update the bundled binaries? It seems that the osx one can be extracted from the pkg, but I have no idea how to do that for the linux binaries. One option is to start a vagrant box for each required release and extract the binary from there but would that be enough? It would be nice if there was some more information on how to udpate the binaries.

[richardwan]

I have this issue as well and tried getting around it by putting this in my gemfile:
gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary', github: "zakird/wkhtmltopdf_binary_gem"

you can see the effect of doing this by running bundle exec wkhtmltopdf -V before and after the change to the bundle.

this worked fine locally on my mac, but i get this error when running on cloud66 linux box web_head/shared/bundle/ruby/2.1.0/bundler/gems/wkhtmltopdf_binary_gem-00d1104350f4/bin/wkhtmltopdf_linux_amd64: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i'm hacking around this by doing a bundle exec which wkhtmltopdf and replacing the file there with the appropriate binary

[dalibor]

@richardwan you need to install libjpeg62

sudo apt-get install -qq libjpeg62

[dalibor]

@jeroenj the issue is gone if you use binaries from master branch of this repo. There's another issue for rubygems release of current master with those binaries: #17.

[richardwan]

@dalibor thanks for the instructions on libjpeg62. If I understand correctly, I am just experiencing this issue: #19

[rietta]

Bundling from the master branch of this repo rather than the official Gem build seems to have fixed an issue with a PDF with images from Amazon S3 over SSL were not rendering. Due to a silent SSL failure with the older 0.9.9.3 build of wkhtmltopdf.

[unixmonkey]

0.12.3 has been merged in PR #31