Hey, It's time for some new releases
http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-0.93.tar.gz http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-gnome-0.93.tar.bz2 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/eggdbus-0.5.tar.gz See [1] for release notes. This release features two important things 1. Local authority I wrote about the plans for this earlier, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2009-June/000135.html It works mostly as described except for two things - there's no command-line tool to control this; and - there's no D-Bus API to control this We might want to add these things later but I didn't really see any need to add all this complexity - the idea is that users wanting to configure authorizations can just use the well-defined files. I wrote some fairly extensive docs about it here http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pklocalauthority.8.html 2. Temporary Authorizations There is now a way to a) get notified about temporary authorizations; and b) revoke temporary authorizations. The latter is currently restricted to insofar it's an all or nothing deal (e.g. you can revoke all or nothing). We might add API to revoke individual authorizations if it turns out we want that. PolicyKit-gnome has support for this; the UI is very simple; basically just a status icon http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-tmp-authz.png that will drop all authorizations if clicked. There is some slight API breakage in libpolkit-gobject-1, libpolkit-agent-1 and the D-Bus interface but nothing that mechanisms would want to use. So since we are still in the pre-1.0 game, I didn't bump the soname. It looks like we now have all the features needed for 1.0. The next release will focus on security review, improving the docs and cleaning up the code. Thanks, David [1] : -------------- PolicyKit 0.93 -------------- This is PolicyKit 0.93. WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to PolicyKit 1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs some security review. Use at your own risk. Build requirements glib, gobject, gio >= 2.21.4 eggdbus-1 >= 0.5 pam Changes since PolicyKit 0.93: David Zeuthen (16): Post-release version bump to 0.93 GIO modules need to be prefix with lib Cancel an authentication if the unique name for the subject vanishes Plug a couple of memory leaks Move local authority management to a separate library Rip out polkit-local and refactor local authority to only use tmp authz Move authentication agent bits to separate authority subclass Also pass the identity of the subject we are checking for Actually make the local authority look up authorization files In .pkla files, use Result{Any,Inactive,Active} instead of just Result Rename some man pages and the daemon binary Add docs detailing how the Local Authority works Add support for querying and revoking temporary authorizations Fix make distcheck Update TODO Update NEWS for release Yanko Kaneti (2): Use unique ids for sections to prevent them being autogenerated More unique ids to get the docs build fully predictable David Zeuthen, July 20th, 2009 ========== polkit-gnome 0.93 ========== This is polkit-gnome version 0.93. Build requirements polkit >= 0.93 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.17.1 Changes since 0.92: David Zeuthen (8): Post-release version bump to 0.93 Fix desktop file Nuke unused stuff Bug 584847 – Get rid of libsexy, use new GtkLabel link support Display a status icon if we have temporary authorizations Bug 589150 – Install autostart desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart Require polkit version 0.93 since the API changed slightly Update NEWS for release David Zeuthen, July 20th, 2009 _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
