ANN: SELinux userspace release 2019-03-15 / 2.9

ANN: SELinux userspace release 2019-03-15 / 2.9

[Petr Lautrbach]

The 2019-03-15 / 2.9 release for the SELinux userspace is now 
available at:

https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases

Thanks to all the contributors to this release!

User-visible changes:

* Spelling errors were fixed in libselinux man pages

* audit2allow supports xperms now. There are new '-x'/'--xperms' 
  options which
turn on generating of extended permisssion AV rules.

* semanage login is fixed in order not to log two audit events 
  which one of them
was correct.

* libsemanage resets umask before creating directories so that 
  file permissions
should not change after a change is committed. 

* Correct user name is used in ROLE_REMOVE audit events

* The noise produced by checkpolicy command line tool is reduced 
  now.

* A new option '-S' or '--sort' is added to checkpolicy to sort 
  the ocontexts
before writing out the binary policy.

* sepolicy and semanage accept aliases now.

* Deprecated at_console statement was removed from dbus 
  configuration.

* semanage export output includes ibpkey and ibendport now.

* audit2why can be run as non-root user now.

* Added russian translations for man pages

* setfiles can once again be used on SELinux-disabled hosts to 
  label files,

* setfiles and restorecon once again correctly ignore files with 
  customizable
types,

* semanage login no longer fails if used with a group that has 
  many members,

* semanage boolean no longer fails if listing for a policy store 
  other than the
active one.

* By default, /usr/bin/python3 is used by Python scripts and for 
  building modules
with python bindings.

Packaging-relevant changes:

* Usage of DESTDIR in restorecond is consistent with other 
  directories now

* By default, /usr/bin/python3 is used by Python scripts and for 
  building modules
with python bindings. It's possible to switch to Python 2 using 
the following commands:

$ pathfix.py -i/usr/bin/python `git grep -l -E 
'^#!.*/usr/bin/python'`
$ make PYTHON=/usr/bin/python` to use Python 2 .

Issues fixed:

* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/81
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/97
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/108
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/109
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/119
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/121
* https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/123

Re: ANN: SELinux userspace release 2019-03-15 / 2.9

[Nicolas Iooss]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:12 PM Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The 2019-03-15 / 2.9 release for the SELinux userspace is now
> available at:
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases

Hi,
Thanks for the release!

Nevertheless, the SHA256 checksums on the Releases page were
truncated. When I opened Releases.md in a text editor, it looked like
the lines were truncated to 159 columns. I fixed this issue so that
users can check the hashes of the archives (cf.
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases/_compare/8957ff33d88fdc156e1d1ce48777b7f95cc5b7e0...a5ce0f3be923f2ac8e4e32b9711cdae4abad4463).

Cheers,
Nicolas