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This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.

See the manual for detailed information.

Version 1.5.2 (2012-01-08)

* Server

** Removed D-Bus signal se.recompile.Mandos.NewRequest() added in

   1.5.0.  It was buggy and was of questionable utility.

Version 1.5.1 (2012-01-01)

* Server

** Include intro(8mandos) manual page, missing since migration from

   README file in version 1.4.0.

Version 1.5.0 (2012-01-01)

* Client

** Network hooks.  The Mandos client can now run custom scripts to take

   up a network interface before the client is run.  Three example

   scripts are provided: "wireless", "openvpn", and "bridge".

   To facilitate this, the client now prefers network interfaces which

   are up (if any) over all other interfaces.

* Server

** Persistent state.  Client state is now saved between server

   restarts.

** clients.conf file can now contain "enabled" setting for clients.

** Bug fix: Fix rare crash bug.

** Bug fix: Send corrent D-Bus type in PropertyChanged for

   "ApprovalDelay", "ApprovalDuration", "Timeout", and

   "ExtendedTimeout".

** mandos-ctl: Bare numbers as arguments are taken to be milliseconds.

** Bug fix: mandos-ctl --secret option now works.

** New D-Bus signal: se.recompile.Mandos.NewRequest(s).

Version 1.4.1 (2011-10-15)

* Server

** Make D-Bus properties settable again, and handle checkers

   for disabled clients correctly.

* Miscellaneous fixes to "pedantic" Lintian warnings

Version 1.4.0 (2011-10-09)

* README file migrated to manual page intro(8mandos).

* Client:

** Fixed warning about "rmdir: Directory not empty".

* Server:

** Default values changed: timeout 5 minutes, interval 2 minutes.

** Clients gets an expiration extension when receiving a password,

   controlled by new "extended_timeout" setting.

** New domain name: "fukt.bsnet.se" changes to "recompile.se".  This

   also affects the D-Bus bus and interface names (old names still

   work).  Users should start using the new names immediately.

** New D-Bus Client object properties "Expires" and "ExtendedTimeout";

   see DBUS-API for details.

Version 1.3.1 (2011-07-27)

* Client:

** Client now retries all Mandos servers periodically.

** Work around Debian bug #633582 - fixes "Permission denied" problem.

Version 1.3.0 (2011-03-08)

* Server:

** Updated for Python 2.6.

* Client:

** Bug fix: Make the password-prompt plugin not conflict with

   Plymouth.

** Bug fix: Bug fix: update initramfs also when purging package.

Version 1.2.3 (2010-10-11)

* Server:

** Bug fix: Expose D-Bus API also in non-debug mode.

Version 1.2.2 (2010-10-07)

* Client:

** splashy: Minor fix to compile with non-Linux kernels.

Version 1.2.1 (2010-10-02)

* Server:

** mandos-monitor(8): Documentation bug fix: Key for removing client

   is "R", not "r".

Version 1.2 (2010-09-28)

* Client:

** New "plymouth" plugin to ask for a password using the Plymouth

   graphical boot system.

** The Mandos client now automatically chooses a network interface if

   the DEVICE setting in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf is set to

   the empty string.  This is also the new default instead of "eth0".

** The Mandos client --connect option now loops indefinitely until a

   password is received from the specified server.

** Bug fix: Quote directory correctly in mandos-keygen with --password

** Bug fix: don't use "echo -e" in mandos-keygen; unsupported by dash.

* Server:

** Terminology change: clients are now "ENABLED" or "DISABLED", not

   "valid" or "invalid".

** New D-Bus API; see the file "DBUS-API".

** New control utilities using the new D-Bus API:

   + mandos-ctl		       A command-line based utility

   + mandos-monitor	       A text-based GUI interface

** New feature: manual interactive approval or denying of clients on a

   case-by-case basis.

** New --debuglevel option to control logging

** Will not write PID file if --debug is passed

** Bug fix: Avoid race conditions with short "interval" values or

   fast checkers.

** Bug fix: Don't try to bind to a network interface when none is

   specified

Version 1.0.14 (2009-10-25)

Enable building without -pie and -fPIE if BROKEN_PIE is set.

Version 1.0.13 (2009-10-22)

* Client

** Security bug fix: If Mandos server is also installed, do not copy

   its config files (with encrypted passwords) into the initrd.img-*

   files.

Version 1.0.12 (2009-09-17)

* Client

** Bug fix: Allow network interface renaming by "udev" by taking down

   the network interface after using it.

** Bug fix: User-supplied plugins are now installed correctly.

** Bug fix: If usplash was used but the password was instead provided

   by the Mandos server, the usplash daemon used to ignore the first

   command passed to it.  This has been fixed.

** Bug fix: Make the "--userid" and "--groupid" options in

   "plugin-runner.conf" work.

* Server

** Bug fix: Fix the LSB header in the init.d script to make dependency

   based booting work.

** A client receiving its password now also counts as if a checker was

   run successfully (i.e. the timeout timer is reset).

Version 1.0.11 (2009-05-23)

* Client

** Bug fix: Use "pkg-config" instead of old "libgnutls-config".

Version 1.0.10 (2009-05-17)

* Client

** Security bug fix: Fix permissions on initrd.img-*.bak files when

   upgrading from older versions.

Version 1.0.9 (2009-05-17)

* Client

** Security bug fix: Fix permissions on initrd.img file when

   installing new linux-image-* packages calling mkinitramfs-kpkg (all

   version lower than 2.6.28-1-* does this).

Version 1.0.8 (2009-02-25)

* Client

** Bug fix: Fix missing quote characters in initramfs-tools-hook.

Version 1.0.7 (2009-02-24)

* Client

** Bug fix: Do not depend on GNU awk.

Version 1.0.6 (2009-02-13)

* Server

** Fix bug where server would stop responding, with a zombie checker

** Support for disabling IPv6 (only for advanced users)

** Fix bug which made server not change group ID

* Client

** Bug fix: Fix permission for /lib64 (on relevant architechtures).

** Add support for IPv4 addresses.

** Add support in mandos-client for not bringing up a network

   interface by specifying an empty string to "--interface".

** Make password prompt on boot not be mangled by kernel log messages

   about network interface.

** Get network interface from initramfs.conf and/or from kernel

   command line.

** If set by "ip=" kernel command line, configure network on boot.

** Support connecting directly using "mandos=connect" kernel command.

   line option, provided network is configured using "ip=".

** Fix bug which made plugin-runner and mandos-client not change group

   ID.

** Fix bug where the "--options-for" option of plugin-runner would

   truncate the value at the first colon character.

** Fix bug where plugin-runner would not go to fallback if all plugins

   failed.

** Fix bug where mandos-client would not clean temporary directory on

   a signal or on certain file systems.

** Bug fix: remove bashism in /bin/sh script "mandos-keygen".

Version 1.0.5 (2009-01-17)

* Client

** Fix small memory leak in plugin-runner.

Version 1.0.4 (2009-01-15)

* Server

** Only find matched user/group pairs when searching for suitable

   nonprivileged user/group to switch to.

* Client

** New kernel parameter "mandos=off" makes client not run at boot.

** Fix linking errors and compilation warnings on AMD64.

** Parse numbers in command line options better.

** The splashy and usplash plugins are more robust while traversing

   /proc, and will not abort if a process suddenly disappears.

Version 1.0.3 (2009-01-06)

* Server

** Now tries to change to user and group "_mandos" before falling back

   to trying the old values "mandos", "nobody:nogroup", and "65534".

** Now does not abort on startup even if no clients are defined in

   clients.conf.

* Client

** Plugins named "*.dpkg-bak" are now ignored.

** Hopefully fixed compilation failure on some architectures where the

   C compiler does not recognize the "-z" option as a linker option.

Version 1.0.2 (2008-10-17)

* mandos-keygen now signs the encrypted key blobs.  This signature is

  not currently verified by mandos-client, but this may change in the

  future.

Version 1.0.1 (2008-10-07)

* Server

** Expand environment variables and ~user in clients.conf's "secfile"

   The "secfile" option in /etc/mandos/clients.conf now expands

   "~user/foo" and "$ENVVAR" strings.

* Client (plugin-runner, plugins, etc.)

** Manual pages for the usplash, splashy, and askpass-fifo plugins.

   All plugins now have man pages.

** More secure compilation and linking flags.

   All programs are now compiled with "-fstack-protector-all -fPIE

   -pie", and linked using "-z relro -pie" for additional security.

* There is now a "NEWS" file (this one), giving a history of

  noteworthy changes.