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@@ -1,4 +1,178 @@ ========== +PolicyKit 0.7 "Common sense ain't common" +========== + +Released on December 5th 2007. + +This is the fifth release of PolicyKit. This release is mostly ABI and +API compatible with 0.6 (100% compatible for existing mechanisms). The +authorization backend has changed; authorizations gained from earlier +PolicyKit releases are no longer valid and will be ignored. + +Highlights of this release: + + o All code is now licensed under the MIT/X11 license + + o libpolkit and libpolkit-dbus no longer depends on libglib. + + o Unit test framework and coverage reporting. As of this release, 64% + of the codebase is currently tested during 'make check'. + + o New system D-Bus service (activated on demand) providing the major + functionality of libpolkit.so from a mechanism point of view. This + is useful for chroot(2)'ed services like Avahi. + + o A class for tracking D-Bus connections to minimize the amount + of IPC necessary. Useful for long running daemons. + + o Pluggable authorization database backend. + + o New API for interacting with the authorization database + + o A very simple convenience API useful for (legacy) commandline tools. + + o A way to specify that an implicit authorization can be one-shot + only. + + o Vendor name, site and icon support in .policy files. + + o Improved documentation. + + o Negative authorizations. + + o Bash completions for all command line tools. + +Changes from PolicyKit 0.6 "There is no stopping in a red zone" + +David Zeuthen (126): + add the convenience class PolKitTracker + add id's so the generated HTML has stable and predictable file names + post-release version bump + add support to PolKitTracker for also asking on pid + add C++ include guards and a new method to get pfe's by annotation + avoid including regex.h from a public header file + don't spew debug output in libpolkit-dbus + work on the docs + use the Since: tag so gtk-doc can print what symbols are new in 0.7 + add docs for POLKIT_[BEGIN|END]_DECLS and also add POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED + create an API for interfacing with the Authorization Database + move POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED to a separate line so gtk-doc is happy + remember to set uid on PolKitSession + rewrite authorization database and polkit-grant (now known as polkit-auth) + make the authdb pluggable and add a dummy backend as an example + move all private functions into a private header file + move Linux specific code into a single file + minor build system and doc fixes + let authdb backends synthesize policy file entries + fix build with dummy backend + fix docs + fix uid retrival when getting auths from all users + use _destroy, not _unref for hash tables + rearrange the docs so all API is in one section + move authdb write functions to libpolkit-grant + provide a polkit D-Bus service that is activated on demand + remember to reset killtimer and fix an error message + avoid defining the same functions in both libpolkit and libpolkit-grant + rename revoke_if_oneshot to is_mechanism and also expose this on D-Bus + make polkit_context_is_[caller|session]_authorized() take a PolKitError + introduce one-shot authorizations + updated TODO list + add unit test framework with gcov coverage support (make check-coverage) + extend test coverage for PolKitAction + remove dead code + add tests for PolKitError + implement OOM testing + add unit tests for PolKitResult + add unit tests for PolKitSeat + add unit tests for PolKitSession + add unit tests for PolKitCaller + add unit tests for PolKitPolicyDefault + add unit tests for PolKitPolicyFileEntry + implement our own hash table with 100% test coverage + export memory mangement and hash table functions + implement polkit_hash_foreach + improve coverage of PolKitPolicyFileEntry by switching to PolKitHashTable + add unit tests for PolKitPolicyFile and add some features to PolKitHash + fix some unaligned access bugs + increase test coverage for PolKitPolicyFile + also dist test .policy files + hook up expat to use our memory handling API + add doubly-linked lists + reimplement string hashing and comparison + move all library source to a src/ directory + fix build with all library soruce in src/ + add some gtk-doc to private bits to get doc coverage to 100% + add test case for PolKitError to get to 100% + use unique action names + add unit tests of PolKitPolicyCache + forgot to add src/Makefile.am + add unit tests for PolKitAuthorizationConstraint + add unit tests for PolKitAuthorization + split utility bits into a private statically linked library + also include libkit in top-level coverage report + add strsplit function + use kit_strsplit in polkit-sysdeps + add (empty, for now) tests for remaining files + add spawn function to libkit + actually include the files with the spawn functions + don't overflow when splitting a string + remove glib dependency from libpolkit.so + tweak how we do coverage reporting + also check for file descriptor leaks + fix build for dummy backend + add unit test framework to the rest of the library sources + build system fixes and refuse to install if built with --enable-tests + create /var/lib/misc on 'make install' + fix parallel build + fix a grave bug where the wrong authorizations were returned + add API for overriding defaults and make polkit-action(1) use this API. + restrict new API to the default backend only + add support for vendor, vendor_url and icon_name tags in .policy files + provide convenience functions for auth checking and port helpers to use them + require org.fd.pk.revoke to revoke auths for self if granted by someone else + export the policydir in the .pc file + add support for negative authorizations + provide a way to force a reload of all caches etc. + make PolKitAuthorization a bit more future proof by adding get_type() + define abstract Authentication Agent interface and make polkit-auth(1) use it + remove Since gtk-doc tags from the internal libkit library + fix 'make check-coverage' + make dummy backend work + add support for percent encoding/decoding and colon separated kv-lists + set errno to ENOMEM when forcibly failing an allocation + rework the .auths file format to use key/value pairs and make it future-proof + also encode \n\r\t characters + update TODO + avoid adding newline at the end of generated entry + write newline since kit_string_entry_create doesn't do that any more + add test harness for polkit-utils + fix a bug where the childs environment wasn't inherited + build with -rdynamic for maint mode and use this to print a stack trace + add (partial) test cases for polkit-authorization-db.c + relicense everything to the MIT/X11 license + avoid logging to syslog even for invalid files + only fail the Nth alloc, not all allocs greater than N + add test-friendly abstractions for getpwnam and getpwuid + fix unit tests for polkit-authorization-db.c + add .gitignore files to get test tree structure in the repo + update .gitignore files + add some more test env variables so we can bypass ConsoleKit in the tests + fix OOM handling in p-a-db.c and only invalidate the cache when necessary + add some more test cases for p-a-db.c + add a new KitString class + implement kit_hash_foreach_remove() + remove glib dep from libpolkit-dbus + fix a bug where KitList elements were not properly freed + downgrade to session scope when granting authorizations for blank passwords + don't require .policy files for auth lookups + refactor constraints API so there is one entry per constraint in the auth file + fix dummy backend so it builds + update TODO + update TODO to mention Piter PUNK's patch + update completion + man page since polkit-auth(1) takes >1 --constraint args + update NEWS file + +========== PolicyKit 0.6 "There is no stopping in a red zone" ========== |