1 - Association polmatch MLS constraint making unlabeled_t an exception
2 is no longer needed, patch from Venkat Yekkirala.
3 - Context contains checking for PAM and cron from James Antill.
4 - Add a reload target to Modules.devel and change the load
5 target to only insert modules that were changed.
6 - Allow semanage to read from /root on strict non-MLS for
8 - Gentoo init script fixes for udev.
9 - Allow udev to read kernel modules.inputmap.
10 - Dnsmasq fixes from testing.
11 - Allow kernel NFS server to getattr filesystems so df can work
13 - Patch from Matt Anderson for a MLS constraint exemption on a
14 file that can be written to from a subject whose range is
15 within the object's range.
16 - Enhanced setransd support from Darrel Goeddel.
17 - Patches from Dan Walsh:
25 * Wed Oct 18 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20061018
26 - Patch from Russell Coker Thu, 5 Oct 2006
27 - Move range transitions to modules.
28 - Make number of MLS sensitivities, and number of MLS and MCS
29 categories configurable as build options.
30 - Add role infrastructure.
31 - Debian updates from Erich Schubert.
32 - Add nscd_socket_use() to auth_use_nsswitch().
33 - Remove old selopt rules.
34 - Full support for netfilter_contexts.
35 - MRTG patch for daemon operation from Stefan.
36 - Add authlogin interface to abstract common access for login programs.
37 - Remove setbool auditallow, except for RHEL4.
38 - Change eventpollfs to task SID labeling.
39 - Add key support from Michael LeMay.
40 - Add ftpdctl domain to ftp, from Paul Howarth.
41 - Fix build system to not move type declarations out of optionals.
42 - Add gcc-config domain to portage.
43 - Add packet object class and support in corenetwork.
44 - Add a copy of genhomedircon for monolithic policy building, so that a
45 policycoreutils package update is not required for RHEL4 systems.
46 - Add appletalk sockets for use in cups.
47 - Add Make target to validate module linking.
48 - Make duplicate template and interface declarations a fatal error.
49 - Patch to stabilize modules.conf `make conf` output, from Erich Schubert.
50 - Move xconsole_device_t from devices to xserver since it is
51 not actually a device, it is a named pipe.
52 - Handle nonexistant .fc and .if files in devel Makefile by
53 automatically creating empty files.
54 - Remove unused devfs_control_t.
55 - Add rhel4 distro, which also implies redhat distro.
56 - Remove unneeded range_transition for su_exec_t and move the
57 type declaration back to the su module.
58 - Constrain transitions in MCS so unconfined_t cannot have
59 arbitrary category sets.
60 - Change reiserfs from xattr filesystem to genfscon as it's xattrs
61 are currently nonfunctional.
62 - Change files and filesystem modules to use their own interfaces.
63 - Add user fonts to xserver.
64 - Additional interfaces in corecommands, miscfiles, and userdomain
66 - Miscellaneous fixes from Thomas Bleher.
67 - Deprecate module name as first parameter of optional_policy()
68 now that optionals are allowed everywhere.
69 - Enable optional blocks in base module and monolithic policy.
70 This requires checkpolicy 1.30.1.
71 - Fix vpn module declaration.
72 - Numerous fixes from Dan Walsh.
73 - Change build order to preserve m4 line number information so policy
74 compile errors are useful again.
75 - Additional MLS interfaces from Chad Hanson.
76 - Move some rules out of domain_type() and domain_base_type()
77 to the TE file, to use the domain attribute to take advantage
78 of space savings from attribute use.
79 - Add global stack smashing protector rule for urandom access from
81 - Fix temporary rules at the bottom of portmap.
82 - Updated comments in mls file from Chad Hanson.
83 - Patches from Dan Walsh:
106 amavis (Erich Schubert)
114 clamav (Erich Schubert)
115 clockspeed (Petre Rodan)
120 dpkg (Erich Schubert)
137 netlabel (Paul Moore)
144 openvpn (Petre Rodan)
171 * Tue Mar 07 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20060307
172 - Make all interface parameters required.
173 - Move boot_t, system_map_t, and modules_object_t to files module,
174 and move bootloader to admin layer.
175 - Add semanage policy for semodule from Dan Walsh.
176 - Remove allow_execmem from targeted policy domain_base_type().
177 - Add users_extra and seusers support.
178 - Postfix fixes from Serge Hallyn.
179 - Run python and shell directly to interpret scripts so policy
180 sources need not be executable.
181 - Add desc tag XML to booleans and tunables, and add summary
182 to param XML tag, to make future translations possible.
183 - Remove unused lvm_vg_t.
184 - Many interface renames to improve naming consistency.
185 - Merge xdm into xserver.
186 - Remove kernel module reversed interfaces.
187 - Add filename attribute to module XML tag and lineno attribute to
189 - Changed QUIET build option to a yes or no option.
190 - Add a Makefile used for compiling loadable modules in a
191 user's development environment, building against policy headers.
192 - Add Make target for installing policy headers.
193 - Separate per-userdomain template expansion from the userdomain
194 module and add infrastructure to expand templates in the modules
195 that own the template.
196 - Enable secadm only for MLS policies.
197 - Remove role change rules in su and sudo since this functionality has been
198 removed from these programs.
199 - Add ctags Make target from Thomas Bleher.
200 - Collapse commands with grep piped to sed into one sed command.
201 - Fix type_change bug in term_user_pty().
202 - Move ice_tmp_t from miscfiles to xserver.
203 - Login fixes from Serge Hallyn.
204 - Move xserver_log_t from xdm to xserver.
205 - Add lpr per-userdomain policy to lpd.
206 - Miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
207 - Change initrc_var_run_t interface noun from script_pid to utmp,
220 * Tue Jan 17 2006 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20060117
221 - Adds support for generating corenetwork interfaces based on attributes
222 in addition to types.
223 - Permits the listing of multiple nodes in a network_node() that will be
225 - Add two new permission sets for stream sockets.
226 - Rename file type transition interfaces verb from create to
227 filetrans to differentiate it from create interfaces without
229 - Fix expansion of interfaces from disabled modules.
230 - Rsync can be long running from init,
231 added rules to allow this.
232 - Add polyinstantiation build option.
233 - Add setcontext to the association object class.
234 - Add apache relay and db connect tunables.
235 - Rename texrel_shlib_t to textrel_shlib_t.
236 - Add swat to samba module.
237 - Numerous miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
242 daemontools (Petre Rodan)
252 publicfile (Petre Rodan)
260 ucspitcp (Petre Rodan)
264 * Wed Dec 07 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20051207
265 - Add unlabeled IPSEC association rule to domains with
266 networking permissions.
267 - Merge systemuser back in to users, as these files
268 do not need to be split.
269 - Add check for duplicate interface/template definitions.
270 - Move domain, files, and corecommands modules to kernel
271 layer to resolve some layering inconsistencies.
272 - Move policy build options out of Makefile into build.conf.
273 - Add yppasswd to nis module.
274 - Change optional_policy() to refer to the module name
275 rather than modulename.te.
276 - Fix labeling targets to use installed file_contexts rather
277 than partial file_contexts in the policy source directory.
278 - Fix build process to use make's internal vpath functions
279 to detect modules rather than using subshells and find.
280 - Add install target for modular policy.
281 - Add load target for modular policy.
282 - Add appconfig dependency to the load target.
283 - Miscellaneous fixes from Dan Walsh.
284 - Fix corenetwork gen_context()'s to expand during the policy
285 build phase instead of during the generation phase.
309 * Wed Oct 19 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20051019
310 - Many fixes to make loadable modules build.
311 - Add targets for sechecker.
312 - Updated to sedoctool to read bool files and tunable
314 - Changed the xml tag of <boolean> to <bool> to be consistent
316 - Modified the implementation of segenxml to use regular
318 - Rename context_template() to gen_context() to clarify
319 that its not a Reference Policy template, but a support
321 - Add disable_*_trans bool support for targeted policy.
322 - Add MLS module to handle MLS constraint exceptions,
323 such as reading up and writing down.
324 - Fix errors uncovered by sediff.
341 * Thu Sep 22 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050922
342 - Make logrotate, sendmail, sshd, and rpm policies
343 unconfined in the targeted policy so no special
344 modules.conf is required.
345 - Add experimental MCS support.
346 - Add appconfig for MLS.
347 - Add equivalents for old can_resolve(), can_ldap(), and
348 can_portmap() to sysnetwork.
349 - Fix base module compile issues.
366 * Wed Sep 07 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050907
367 - Fix errors uncovered by sediff.
368 - Doc tool will explicitly say a module does not have interfaces
369 or templates on the module page.
380 * Fri Aug 26 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050826
381 - Add Makefile support for building loadable modules.
382 - Add genclassperms.py tool to add require blocks
383 for loadable modules.
384 - Change sedoctool to make required modules part of base
385 by default, otherwise make as modules, in modules.conf.
386 - Fix segenxml to handle modules with no interfaces.
387 - Rename ipsec connect interface for consistency.
388 - Add missing parts of unix stream socket connect interface
390 - Rename inetd connect interface for consistency.
391 - Rename interface for purging contents of tmp, for clarity,
392 since it allows deletion of classes other than file.
413 * Tue Aug 2 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050802
414 - Fix comparison bug in fc_sort.
415 - Fix handling of ordered and unordered HTML lists.
416 - Corenetwork now supports multiple network interfaces having the
418 - Doc tool now creates pages for global Booleans and global tunables.
419 - Doc tool now links directly to the interface/template in the
420 module page when it is selected in the interface/template index.
421 - Added support for layer summaries.
428 * Thu Jul 7 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050707
429 - Changed xml to have modules encapsulated by layer tags, rather
430 than putting layer="foo" in the module tags. Also in the future
431 we can put a summary and description for each layer.
432 - Added tool to infer interface, module, and layer tags. This will
433 now list all interfaces, even if they are missing xml docs.
434 - Shortened xml tag names.
435 - Added macros to declare interfaces and templates.
436 - Added interface call trace.
437 - Updated all xml documentation for shorter and inferred tags.
438 - Doc tool now displays templates in the web pages.
439 - Doc tool retains the user's settings in modules.conf and
440 tunables.conf if the files already exist.
441 - Modules.conf behavior has been changed to be a list of all
442 available modules, and the user can specify if the module is
443 built as a loadable module, included in the monolithic policy,
446 fstools (fsck, mkfs, swapon, etc. tools)
450 nis (ypbind and ypserv)
451 ssh (server, client, and agent)
453 - Added infrastructure for targeted policy support, only missing
454 transition boolean support.
456 * Wed Jun 15 2005 Chris PeBenito <selinux@tresys.com> - 20050615