From aef7a201260133535c035ba7183f8e96bd25954f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Zeuthen Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:56:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update NEWS file --- NEWS | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2c87014..ea57e0c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,70 @@ ========== +PolicyKit 0.5 "Urban Living" +========== + +Released on August 31st 2007. + +This is the third release of PolicyKit. Since 0.4 both source- and +file-format level incomptible changes have been introduced. Accordingly, +the library so-names have been bumped to reflect this. Porting effort +should be minimal though; see the example in PolicyKit-gnome for details. + +WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not use this software in a stable +distribution; there are still security sensitive things that needs to +be audited. + +Changes from PolicyKit 0.4 "Off the Grid" + +Danny Kukawka (3): + added missing files to git repo + fixed code documentation issues + fixed compiler warning about uid_t handling + +David Zeuthen (37): + move PAM stack usage to separate helper + remove the isatty() call so it's easier to audit the helper + put back isatty() checks when calling user is not uid 0 + use waitpid() to avoid Zombie processes + provide a high-level interaction diagram of how this works + post-release version number bump + use correct type for conversation_done() function + make the /var/lib/PolicyKit/reload writable for group polkituser + when granting privileges, touch the /var/lib/PolicyKit/reload file + export PolKitConfig and provide a config file directive + properly support i18n'ed messages from .policy files + handle the case where we don't load descriptions + make polkit-grant(1) work with feature + make libpolkit-grant less noisy + rip out group concept from .policy files and rename element to + minor doc cleanups + avoid the now defunct group concept in polkit-list-actions + gracefully handle bad config/policy files, drop polkit-reload-config, syslog + add support for annotations + give a little love to polkit-list-actions(1) and polkit-grant(1) + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/PolicyKit + delay loading the configuration until it's needed + convert manual page sources to Docbook, add polkit-config-file-validate tool + clean up our documentation + revert "fixed code documentation issues" + fix up manual pages for some trivial errors + update inline API docs + some more doc fixes + make config file override grant database + forgot to add doc/version.xml.in + also add another missing file + also forgot to add polkit-docs.xml + minor doc changes + add an example of how define_admin_auth is used + make polkit-grant-helper-pam out of reach for normal users + fix 'make distcheck' by avoiding with man pages on distcheck + bump so name + update NEWS file + +Richard Hughes (1): + work when SELinux is disabled + + +========== PolicyKit 0.4 "Off the Grid" ========== -- 2.7.4