1 - Unified labeled networking policy from Paul Moore.
2 - Use netmsg initial SID for MLS-only Netlabel packets, from Paul Moore.
3 - Xen updates from Dan Walsh.
4 - Filesystem updates from Dan Walsh.
5 - Large samba update from Dan Walsh.
7 - Confine sendmail and logrotate on targeted.
8 - Tunable connection to postgresql for users from KaiGai Kohei.
9 - Memprotect support patch from Stephen Smalley.
10 - Add logging_send_audit_msgs() interface and deprecate
11 send_audit_msgs_pattern().
12 - Openct updates patch from Dan Walsh.
13 - Merge restorecon into setfiles.
14 - Patch to begin separating out hald helper programs from Dan Walsh.
15 - Fixes for squid, dovecot, and snmp from Dan Walsh.
16 - Miscellaneous consolekit fixes from Dan Walsh.
17 - Patch to have avahi use the nsswitch interface rather than individual
18 permissions from Dan Walsh.
19 - Patch to dontaudit logrotate searching avahi pid directory from Dan Walsh.
20 - Patch to allow insmod to mount kvmfs and dontaudit rw unconfined_t pipes
21 to handle usage from userhelper from Dan Walsh.
22 - Patch to allow amavis to read spamassassin libraries from Dan Walsh.
23 - Patch to allow slocate to getattr other filesystems and directories on those
24 filesystems from Dan Walsh.
25 - Fixes for RHEL4 from the CLIP project.
26 - Replace the old lrrd fc entries with munin ones.
27 - Move program admin template usage out of userdom_admin_user_template() to
28 sysadm policy in userdomain.te to fix usage of the template for third
30 - Fix clockspeed_run_cli() declaration, it was incorrectly defined as a
31 template instead of an interface.
35 rwho (Nalin Dahyabhai)
37 * Tue Apr 17 2007 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20070417
38 - Patch for sasl's use of kerberos from Dan Walsh.
39 - Patches to confine ldconfig, udev, and insmod in the targeted policy from Dan Walsh.
40 - Man page updates from Dan Walsh.
41 - Two patches from Paul Moore to for ipsec to remove redundant rules and
42 have setkey read the config file.
43 - Move booleans and tunables to modules when it is only used in a single
45 - Add support for tunables and booleans local to a module.
46 - Merge sbin_t and ls_exec_t into bin_t.
47 - Remove disable_trans booleans.
48 - Output different header sets for kernel and userland from flask headers.
49 - Marked the pax class as deprecated, changed it to userland so
50 it will be removed from the kernel.
51 - Stop including netfilter contexts by default.
52 - Add dontaudits for init fds and console to init_daemon_domain().
53 - Patch to allow gpg to create user keys dir.
54 - Patch to support kvmfs from Dan Walsh.
55 - Patch for misc fixes in sudo from Dan Walsh.
56 - Patch to fix netlabel recvfrom MLS constraint from Paul Moore.
57 - Patch for handling restart of nscd when ran from useradd, groupadd, and
58 admin passwd, from Dan Walsh.
59 - Patch for procmail, spamassassin, and pyzor updates from Dan Walsh.
60 - Patch for setroubleshoot for validating file contexts from Dan Walsh.
61 - Patch for gssd fixes from Dan Walsh.
62 - Patch for lvm fixes from Dan Walsh.
63 - Patch for ricci fixes from Dan Walsh.
64 - Patch for postfix lmtp labeling and pickup rule fix from Dan Walsh.
65 - Patch for kerberized telnet fixes from Dan Walsh.
66 - Patch for kerberized ftp and other ftp fixes from Dan Walsh.
67 - Patch for an additional wine executable from Dan Walsh.
68 - Eight patches for file contexts in games, wine, networkmanager, miscfiles,
69 corecommands, devices, and java from Dan Walsh.
70 - Add support for libselinux 2.0.5 init_selinuxmnt() changes.
71 - Patch for misc fixes to bluetooth from Dan Walsh.
72 - Patch for misc fixes to kerberos from Dan Walsh.
73 - Patch to start deprecating usercanread attribute from Ryan Bradetich.
74 - Add dccp_socket object class which was added in kernel 2.6.20.
75 - Patch for prelink relabefrom it's temp files from Dan Walsh.
76 - Patch for capability fix for auditd and networking fix for syslogd from
78 - Patch to remove redundant mls_trusted_object() call from Dan Walsh.
79 - Patch for misc fixes to nis ypxfr policy from Dan Walsh.
80 - Patch to allow apmd to telinit from Dan Walsh.
81 - Patch for additional labeling of samba files from Stefan Schulze
83 - Patch to remove incorrect cron labeling in apache.fc from Ryan Bradetich.
84 - Fix ptys and ttys to be device nodes.
85 - Fix explicit use of httpd_t in openca_domtrans().
86 - Clean up file context regexes in apache and java, from Eamon Walsh.
87 - Patches from Dan Walsh:
90 consolekit (Dan Walsh)
94 * Tue Dec 12 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20061212
95 - Add policy patterns support macros. This changes the behavior of
96 the create_dir_perms and create_file_perms permission sets.
97 - Association polmatch MLS constraint making unlabeled_t an exception
98 is no longer needed, patch from Venkat Yekkirala.
99 - Context contains checking for PAM and cron from James Antill.
100 - Add a reload target to Modules.devel and change the load
101 target to only insert modules that were changed.
102 - Allow semanage to read from /root on strict non-MLS for
103 local policy modules.
104 - Gentoo init script fixes for udev.
105 - Allow udev to read kernel modules.inputmap.
106 - Dnsmasq fixes from testing.
107 - Allow kernel NFS server to getattr filesystems so df can work
109 - Patch from Matt Anderson for a MLS constraint exemption on a
110 file that can be written to from a subject whose range is
111 within the object's range.
112 - Enhanced setransd support from Darrel Goeddel.
113 - Patches from Dan Walsh:
122 * Wed Oct 18 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20061018
123 - Patch from Russell Coker Thu, 5 Oct 2006
124 - Move range transitions to modules.
125 - Make number of MLS sensitivities, and number of MLS and MCS
126 categories configurable as build options.
127 - Add role infrastructure.
128 - Debian updates from Erich Schubert.
129 - Add nscd_socket_use() to auth_use_nsswitch().
130 - Remove old selopt rules.
131 - Full support for netfilter_contexts.
132 - MRTG patch for daemon operation from Stefan.
133 - Add authlogin interface to abstract common access for login programs.
134 - Remove setbool auditallow, except for RHEL4.
135 - Change eventpollfs to task SID labeling.
136 - Add key support from Michael LeMay.
137 - Add ftpdctl domain to ftp, from Paul Howarth.
138 - Fix build system to not move type declarations out of optionals.
139 - Add gcc-config domain to portage.
140 - Add packet object class and support in corenetwork.
141 - Add a copy of genhomedircon for monolithic policy building, so that a
142 policycoreutils package update is not required for RHEL4 systems.
143 - Add appletalk sockets for use in cups.
144 - Add Make target to validate module linking.
145 - Make duplicate template and interface declarations a fatal error.
146 - Patch to stabilize modules.conf `make conf` output, from Erich Schubert.
147 - Move xconsole_device_t from devices to xserver since it is
148 not actually a device, it is a named pipe.
149 - Handle nonexistant .fc and .if files in devel Makefile by
150 automatically creating empty files.
151 - Remove unused devfs_control_t.
152 - Add rhel4 distro, which also implies redhat distro.
153 - Remove unneeded range_transition for su_exec_t and move the
154 type declaration back to the su module.
155 - Constrain transitions in MCS so unconfined_t cannot have
156 arbitrary category sets.
157 - Change reiserfs from xattr filesystem to genfscon as it's xattrs
158 are currently nonfunctional.
159 - Change files and filesystem modules to use their own interfaces.
160 - Add user fonts to xserver.
161 - Additional interfaces in corecommands, miscfiles, and userdomain
163 - Miscellaneous fixes from Thomas Bleher.
164 - Deprecate module name as first parameter of optional_policy()
165 now that optionals are allowed everywhere.
166 - Enable optional blocks in base module and monolithic policy.
167 This requires checkpolicy 1.30.1.
168 - Fix vpn module declaration.
169 - Numerous fixes from Dan Walsh.
170 - Change build order to preserve m4 line number information so policy
171 compile errors are useful again.
172 - Additional MLS interfaces from Chad Hanson.
173 - Move some rules out of domain_type() and domain_base_type()
174 to the TE file, to use the domain attribute to take advantage
175 of space savings from attribute use.
176 - Add global stack smashing protector rule for urandom access from
178 - Fix temporary rules at the bottom of portmap.
179 - Updated comments in mls file from Chad Hanson.
180 - Patches from Dan Walsh:
203 amavis (Erich Schubert)
211 clamav (Erich Schubert)
212 clockspeed (Petre Rodan)
217 dpkg (Erich Schubert)
234 netlabel (Paul Moore)
241 openvpn (Petre Rodan)
268 * Tue Mar 07 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20060307
269 - Make all interface parameters required.
270 - Move boot_t, system_map_t, and modules_object_t to files module,
271 and move bootloader to admin layer.
272 - Add semanage policy for semodule from Dan Walsh.
273 - Remove allow_execmem from targeted policy domain_base_type().
274 - Add users_extra and seusers support.
275 - Postfix fixes from Serge Hallyn.
276 - Run python and shell directly to interpret scripts so policy
277 sources need not be executable.
278 - Add desc tag XML to booleans and tunables, and add summary
279 to param XML tag, to make future translations possible.
280 - Remove unused lvm_vg_t.
281 - Many interface renames to improve naming consistency.
282 - Merge xdm into xserver.
283 - Remove kernel module reversed interfaces.
284 - Add filename attribute to module XML tag and lineno attribute to
286 - Changed QUIET build option to a yes or no option.
287 - Add a Makefile used for compiling loadable modules in a
288 user's development environment, building against policy headers.
289 - Add Make target for installing policy headers.
290 - Separate per-userdomain template expansion from the userdomain
291 module and add infrastructure to expand templates in the modules
292 that own the template.
293 - Enable secadm only for MLS policies.
294 - Remove role change rules in su and sudo since this functionality has been
295 removed from these programs.
296 - Add ctags Make target from Thomas Bleher.
297 - Collapse commands with grep piped to sed into one sed command.
298 - Fix type_change bug in term_user_pty().
299 - Move ice_tmp_t from miscfiles to xserver.
300 - Login fixes from Serge Hallyn.
301 - Move xserver_log_t from xdm to xserver.
302 - Add lpr per-userdomain policy to lpd.
303 - Miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
304 - Change initrc_var_run_t interface noun from script_pid to utmp,
317 * Tue Jan 17 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20060117
318 - Adds support for generating corenetwork interfaces based on attributes
319 in addition to types.
320 - Permits the listing of multiple nodes in a network_node() that will be
322 - Add two new permission sets for stream sockets.
323 - Rename file type transition interfaces verb from create to
324 filetrans to differentiate it from create interfaces without
326 - Fix expansion of interfaces from disabled modules.
327 - Rsync can be long running from init,
328 added rules to allow this.
329 - Add polyinstantiation build option.
330 - Add setcontext to the association object class.
331 - Add apache relay and db connect tunables.
332 - Rename texrel_shlib_t to textrel_shlib_t.
333 - Add swat to samba module.
334 - Numerous miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
339 daemontools (Petre Rodan)
349 publicfile (Petre Rodan)
357 ucspitcp (Petre Rodan)
361 * Wed Dec 07 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20051207
362 - Add unlabeled IPSEC association rule to domains with
363 networking permissions.
364 - Merge systemuser back in to users, as these files
365 do not need to be split.
366 - Add check for duplicate interface/template definitions.
367 - Move domain, files, and corecommands modules to kernel
368 layer to resolve some layering inconsistencies.
369 - Move policy build options out of Makefile into build.conf.
370 - Add yppasswd to nis module.
371 - Change optional_policy() to refer to the module name
372 rather than modulename.te.
373 - Fix labeling targets to use installed file_contexts rather
374 than partial file_contexts in the policy source directory.
375 - Fix build process to use make's internal vpath functions
376 to detect modules rather than using subshells and find.
377 - Add install target for modular policy.
378 - Add load target for modular policy.
379 - Add appconfig dependency to the load target.
380 - Miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
381 - Fix corenetwork gen_context()'s to expand during the policy
382 build phase instead of during the generation phase.
406 * Wed Oct 19 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20051019
407 - Many fixes to make loadable modules build.
408 - Add targets for sechecker.
409 - Updated to sedoctool to read bool files and tunable
411 - Changed the xml tag of <boolean> to <bool> to be consistent
413 - Modified the implementation of segenxml to use regular
415 - Rename context_template() to gen_context() to clarify
416 that its not a Reference Policy template, but a support
418 - Add disable_*_trans bool support for targeted policy.
419 - Add MLS module to handle MLS constraint exceptions,
420 such as reading up and writing down.
421 - Fix errors uncovered by sediff.
438 * Thu Sep 22 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050922
439 - Make logrotate, sendmail, sshd, and rpm policies
440 unconfined in the targeted policy so no special
441 modules.conf is required.
442 - Add experimental MCS support.
443 - Add appconfig for MLS.
444 - Add equivalents for old can_resolve(), can_ldap(), and
445 can_portmap() to sysnetwork.
446 - Fix base module compile issues.
463 * Wed Sep 07 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050907
464 - Fix errors uncovered by sediff.
465 - Doc tool will explicitly say a module does not have interfaces
466 or templates on the module page.
477 * Fri Aug 26 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050826
478 - Add Makefile support for building loadable modules.
479 - Add genclassperms.py tool to add require blocks
480 for loadable modules.
481 - Change sedoctool to make required modules part of base
482 by default, otherwise make as modules, in modules.conf.
483 - Fix segenxml to handle modules with no interfaces.
484 - Rename ipsec connect interface for consistency.
485 - Add missing parts of unix stream socket connect interface
487 - Rename inetd connect interface for consistency.
488 - Rename interface for purging contents of tmp, for clarity,
489 since it allows deletion of classes other than file.
510 * Tue Aug 2 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050802
511 - Fix comparison bug in fc_sort.
512 - Fix handling of ordered and unordered HTML lists.
513 - Corenetwork now supports multiple network interfaces having the
515 - Doc tool now creates pages for global Booleans and global tunables.
516 - Doc tool now links directly to the interface/template in the
517 module page when it is selected in the interface/template index.
518 - Added support for layer summaries.
525 * Thu Jul 7 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050707
526 - Changed xml to have modules encapsulated by layer tags, rather
527 than putting layer="foo" in the module tags. Also in the future
528 we can put a summary and description for each layer.
529 - Added tool to infer interface, module, and layer tags. This will
530 now list all interfaces, even if they are missing xml docs.
531 - Shortened xml tag names.
532 - Added macros to declare interfaces and templates.
533 - Added interface call trace.
534 - Updated all xml documentation for shorter and inferred tags.
535 - Doc tool now displays templates in the web pages.
536 - Doc tool retains the user's settings in modules.conf and
537 tunables.conf if the files already exist.
538 - Modules.conf behavior has been changed to be a list of all
539 available modules, and the user can specify if the module is
540 built as a loadable module, included in the monolithic policy,
543 fstools (fsck, mkfs, swapon, etc. tools)
547 nis (ypbind and ypserv)
548 ssh (server, client, and agent)
550 - Added infrastructure for targeted policy support, only missing
551 transition boolean support.
553 * Wed Jun 15 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050615