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This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
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See the manual for detailed information.
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Version 1.8.17 (2024-09-12)
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* Improve documentation slightly, especially how to add extra options
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to mandos-client when using dracut with systemd.
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* Make life easier for distribution packagers by making sure that
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"make install" creates all required directories.
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** When seeing clients.conf entries lacking both fingerprint and
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key_id, show a warning and ignore them instead of crashing,
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** Suppress most spurious compiler warnings.
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** In initramfs-tools-hook, be aware of new name of GPGME library,
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** In password-agent(8mandos), look for a Plymouth process in
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alphabetical order, not in reverse alphabetical order. This is
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technically a user-visible change, but should never matter in
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Version 1.8.16 (2023-02-08)
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** Bug fix: Start client checkers after a random delay
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Version 1.8.15 (2022-04-25)
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** Bug fix: When running "mandos-keygen --password" to read a password
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interactively (to save in a section in the clients.conf file),
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backslashes in the password are no longer interpreted as backslash
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** GnuTLS debug output no longer has a "b'" prefix.
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Version 1.8.14 (2021-02-03)
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** Create /dev/fd symlink (if necessary) in plugin-runner(8mandos) and
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mandos-client(8mandos) (Workaround for Debian bug #981302)
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Version 1.8.13 (2020-11-30)
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** Fix unreliable test in password-agent(8mandos).
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Version 1.8.12 (2020-07-04)
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** Fix compatibility with the GNU C Library version 2.31.
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** In initramfs-tools boots, only use setsid(1) when available.
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Version 1.8.11 (2020-04-08)
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** Fix file descriptor leak when adding or removing local routes to
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unreachable hosts on the local network.
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Version 1.8.10 (2020-03-21)
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** Fix bug when setting a client's D-Bus "Secret" property
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** Start client checkers after a random delay
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** When using systemd, allow easier modification of server options
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** Better log messages in mandos-monitor
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** When using dracut & systemd, allow easier modification of options
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Version 1.8.9 (2019-09-03)
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* No user-visible changes
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Version 1.8.8 (2019-08-18)
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* No user-visible changes
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Version 1.8.7 (2019-08-05)
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** Always compile with LFS (Large File Support) enabled.
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** Improve intro(8mandos) manual page to cover dracut(8) support.
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Version 1.8.6 (2019-08-03)
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** dracut support: In password-agent, properly ignore deleted and
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renamed question files, and also fix memory alignment issue.
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Version 1.8.5 (2019-07-30)
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** Support dracut(8) as well as initramfs-tools(7).
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** Minor bug fix: Allow the mandos-keygen --passfile option to use
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passfiles with names starting with "-".
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** Document known limitation of mandos-keygen --password; it strips
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white space from start and end of the password.
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** Bug fix: The server used to fail to restart if the "port" setting
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was used. This has been fixed.
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** Minor bug fix: Reap zombies left over from checker runs. (Debian
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Version 1.8.4 (2019-04-09)
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** Fix minor memory leak in plugin-runner.
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** mandos-ctl now has a --debug option to show D-Bus calls.
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Version 1.8.3 (2019-02-11)
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* No user-visible changes.
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Version 1.8.2 (2019-02-10)
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** In mandos-keygen, ignore failures to remove files in some cases.
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Version 1.8.1 (2019-02-10)
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** Only generate TLS keys using GnuTLS' certtool, of sufficient
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version. Key generation of TLS keys will not happen until a
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version of GnuTLS is installed with support for raw public keys.
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** Remove any bad keys created by 1.8.0 and openssl.
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** On installation, edit clients.conf and remove the same bad key ID
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which was erroneously reported by all 1.8.0 clients. Also do not
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trust this key ID in the server.
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Version 1.8.0 (2019-02-10)
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** Use new TLS keys for server communication and identification.
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