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This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
See the manual for detailed information.

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.