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