Release 3.8-rc1

RELEASE 3.8-rc1

User-visible changes

• libsemanage: Preserve file context and ownership in policy store

• libselinux: deprecate security_disable(3)

• libsepol: Support nlmsg extended permissions

• libsepol: Add policy capability netlink_xperm

• libsemanage: Optionally allow duplicate declarations

• policycoreutils: introduce unsetfiles

• libselinux/utils: introduce selabel_compare

• improved selabel_lookup performance

• libselinux: support parallel usage of selabel_lookup(3)

• libsepol: add support for xperms in conditional policies

• Improved man pages

• Code improvements and bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.7

RELEASE 3.7

User-visible changes

• audit2allow -C for CIL output mode

• sepolgen: adjust parse for refpolicy

• semanage: Allow modifying records on "add"

• semanage: Do not sort local fcontext definitions

• Improved man pages

• checkpolicy: support CIDR notation for nodecon statements

• sandbox: Add support for Wayland

• Code improvements and bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.7-rc3

RELEASE 3.7-rc3

User-visible changes

• Code improvements and bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.7-rc2

RELEASE 3.7-rc2

User-visible changes

• checkpolicy: support CIDR notation for nodecon statements

• sandbox: Add support for Wayland

• Code improvements and bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.7-rc1

RELEASE 3.7-rc1

User-visible changes

• audit2allow -C for CIL output mode

• sepolgen: adjust parse for refpolicy

• semanage: Allow modifying records on "add"

• semanage: Do not sort local fcontext definitions

• Improved man pages

• Code improvements and bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.6

RELEASE 3.6

User-visible changes

• checkpolicy/dispol: add option to display users, drop duplicate option to display booleans,
  show number of entries before listing them

• libsepol: struct cond_expr_t bool renamed to boolean
  The change is indicated by COND_EXPR_T_RENAME_BOOL_BOOLEAN macro

• cil: Allow IP address and mask values to be directly written

• cil: Allow paths in filecon rules to be passed as arguments

• Add not self support for neverallow rules

• dispol: Add the ability to show booleans, classes, roles, types and type attributes of policies

• Improve man pages

• libselinux: performance optimization for duplicate detection

• dismod: add options: --actions ACTIONS, --help

• dispol: add options: --actions ACTIONS, --help

• checkpolicy: Add the command line argument -N, --disable-neverallow

• Introduce getpolicyload - a helper binary to print the number of policy reloads on the running system

• man pages: Remove the Russian translations

• Add notself and other support to CIL

• Add support for deny rules

• Translations updated from
  https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/selinux/

• Bug fixes

Development-relevant changes

• ci: bump Fedora to version 39

• Drop LGTM.com and Travis CI configuration

SELinux userspace release 3.6-rc2

RELEASE 3.6-rc2

User-visible changes

• cil: Allow IP address and mask values to be directly written

• cil: Allow paths in filecon rules to be passed as arguments

• Bug fixes

Development-relevant changes

• ci: bump Fedora to version 39

• Drop LGTM.com and Travis CI configuration

SELinux userspace release 3.6-rc1

RELEASE 3.6-rc1

User-visible changes

• Add not self support for neverallow rules

• dispol: Add the ability to show booleans, classes, roles, types and type attributes of policies

• Improve man pages

• libselinux: performance optimization for duplicate detection

• dismod: add options: --actions ACTIONS, --help

• dispol: add options: --actions ACTIONS, --help

• checkpolicy: Add the command line argument -N, --disable-neverallow

• Introduce getpolicyload - a helper binary to print the number of policy reloads on the running system

• man pages: Remove the Russian translations

• Add notself and other support to CIL

• Add support for deny rules

• Translations updated from
  https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/selinux/

• Bug fixes

SELinux userspace release 3.5

RELEASE 3.5

User-visible changes

• Maintainer GPG fingerprints added to /SECURITY.md

• semodule option --rebuild-if-modules-changed was renamed to --refresh

• Remove dependency on the deprecated Python module distutils and install via pip

• libsepol: Stricter policy validation

• libsepol: do not write empty class definitions to allow simpler round-trip tests

• libsepol: reject attributes in type av rules for kernel policies

• libselinux: add getpidprevcon()

• libselinux: restorecon hashtable and other misc fixes

• libselinux: Add workaround to reduce pcre2 heap memory usage

• sepolicy: Several python and GTK updates

• sepolicy: Add missing booleans to man pages

• sepolicy: Cache queries to speed up manpage generation

• mcstrans: preserve runtime directory

• fixfiles: Unmount temporary bind mounts on SIGINT

• Large updates to translations and better handling for unsupported languages

• Translation updated and better handling for unsupported languages

• Translation updated for generated descriptions

• A lot of static code analysis issues, fuzzer issues and compiler warnings fixed

• Bug fixes

Development-relevant changes

• Install python modules via pip instead of setup.py
• ci: Run on Fedora36 instead of F34
• ci: Run on Python3.11 and drop py3.5, py3.6

SELinux userspace release 3.5-rc3

RELEASE 3.5-rc3

User-visible changes

• libselinux: add getpidprevcon()

• libselinux: restorecon hashtable and other misc fixes

• sepolicy: Cache queries to speed up manpage generation

• mcstrans: preserve runtime directory

• Many updated translations

• Build optimizations and other bug fixes

Development-relevant changes

• ci: Run on Python3.11 and drop py3.5, py3.6