On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:09:20AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 05/04/2018 08:19 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:52:24AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If you have encountered any unreported problems with the 2.8-rcX releases or have any
> >> pending patches you believe should be included in the 2.8 release, please post them soon.
> >> Also, let us know of any additions or changes that should be made to the release notes;
> >> the current draft is as follows.
> >>
> >> User-visible changes:
> >
> > One might see processes "validate_context" where they didnt before
> >
> > Generally processes that use lgetfilecon/lsetfilecon i suspect (like lvm, various systemd components etc)
>
> That should no longer be true as of -rc2 since I reverted the libselinux: verify file_contexts when using restorecon change.
Oh thanks, yes fedora is still on RC1.
>
> >
> >>
> >> * semanage fcontext -l now also lists home directory entries from
> >> file_contexts.homedirs.
> >>
> >> * semodule can now enable or disable multiple modules in the same
> >> operation by specifying a list of modules after -e or -d, making them
> >> consistent with the -i/u/r/E options.
> >>
> >> * CIL now supports multiple declarations of types, attributes, and
> >> (non-conflicting) object contexts (e.g. genfscon), enabled via the -m
> >> or --multiple-decls option to secilc.
> >>
> >> * libsemanage no longer deletes the tmp directory if there is an error
> >> while committing the policy transaction, so that any temporary files
> >> can be further inspected for debugging purposes (e.g. to examine a
> >> particular line of the generated CIL module). The tmp directory will
> >> be deleted upon the next transaction, so no manual removal is needed.
> >>
> >> * Support was added for SCTP portcon statements. The corresponding
> >> kernel support was introduced in Linux 4.17, and is only active if the
> >> extended_socket_class policy capability is enabled in the policy.
> >>
> >> * sepol_polcap_getnum/name() were exported as part of the shared libsepol
> >> interface, initially for use by setools4.
> >>
> >> * semodule_deps was removed since it has long been broken and is not useful
> >> for CIL modules.
> >>
> >> Packaging-relevant changes:
> >>
> >> * When overriding PREFIX, BINDIR, SBINDIR, SHLIBDIR, LIBEXECDIR, etc.,
> >> DESTDIR has to be removed from the definition. For example on Arch
> >> Linux, SBINDIR="${pkgdir}/usr/bin" was changed to SBINDIR="/usr/bin".
> >>
> >> * Defining variable LIBSEPOLA (to /usr/lib/libsepol.a, for example) is
> >> no longer mandatory (thanks to the switch to "-l:libsepol.a" in
> >> Makefiles).
> >>
> >> * PYSITEDIR has been renamed PYTHONLIBDIR (and its definition changed).
> >>
> >> * selinux-gui (i.e. system-config-selinux GUI application) is now
> >> compatible with Python 3. Doing this required migrating away from
> >> PyGTK to the supported PyGI library. This means that selinux-gui now
> >> depends on python-gobject, Gtk+ 3 and selinux-python. It no longer
> >> requires PyGtk or Python 2.
> >
>
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