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