path: root/NEWS

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polkit 0.114
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.114.

Highlights:
 Port to mozjs 52, the latest version of the firefox JavaScript engine.

 Add gettext support for policy files

 Fixes for various memory leaks

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.32
 mozjs-52
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.113:

Anders Jonsson (2):
      pkcheck: fix man typos
      Add Swedish translation

Antoine Jacoutot (1):
      Add support for OpenBSD

Christian Kirbach (1):
      Add German translation

Colin Walters (3):
      build: Pull in GCC warning infra from ostree
      build: Use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
      tests: Correct boundary test for overflow

Dariusz Gadomski (2):
      Fix multi-line pam text info.
      Refactor send_to_helper usage

Gabor Kelemen (1):
      Add initial Hungarian translation, and add hu to LINGUAS

Jeremy Linton (5):
      change mozjs interface module to c++
      Switch to hard requiring mozjs24
      Fix warnings caused by building with C++
      Replace autocompartment
      test: Add a test case to handle actions without explicit rules

Jiří Klimeš (1):
      trivial: fix deprecated indication for polkit_agent_register_listener()

Matthias Clasen (1):
      Add gettext support for .policy files

Miloslav Trmač (21):
      Post-release version bump to 0.114
      Consistently use HAVE_NETGROUP_H instead of HAVE_OPENBSD
      Fix a memory leak of PolkitAgentListener's Server object
      Remove polkitbackendconfigsource.[ch]
      Add Slovak translation by Dusan Kazik <prescott66@gmail.com>
      Add Indonesian translation by Andika Triwidada
      Add Chinese (Taiwan) translation
      Fix a typo in polkit(8)
      Simplify GVariant reference counting
      Fix a memory leak on an error path of lookup_asv (twice)
      Fix a memory leak in server_handle_register_authentication_agent_with_options
      Fix a memory leak in server_handle_unregister_authentication_agent
      Fix a memory leak in server_handle_authentication_agent_response{,2}
      Fix memory leaks in server_handle_*_temporary_authorizations
      Fix error handling in polkit_authority_enumerate_temporary_authorizations_finish
      Fix a memory leak per agent authentication
      Fix a memory leak on agent authentication cancellation
      Audit and fix GVariant reference counting
      Fix help for (pkttyagent -s)
      Fix a race condition when terminating runaway_killer_thread
      Move to current GLib

Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5) (1):
      Add zh_CN translation

Muhammet Kara (1):
      Added Turkish translation

OBATA Akio (1):
      Add support for NetBSD

Peter Hutterer (1):
      gettext: switch to default-translate "no"

Philip Withnall (3):
      polkit: Add g_autoptr() support for GObject-derived polkit types
      data: Set GIO_USE_VFS=local in the environment
      polkitbackend: Fix typos in a couple of initialisation error messages

Piotr Drąg (1):
      Add Polish translation

Rafael Fontenelle (1):
      Add Brazilian Portuguese translation

Ray Strode (34):
      configure: bump mozjs requirement to 52
      jsauthority: fix how classes are defined
      jsauthority: use JS_FN instead of JS_FS
      jsauthority: get rid of JSRuntime
      jsauthority: change how setVersion is called
      jsauthority: call JS_Init
      jsauthority: call JS_InitSelfHostedCode
      jsauthority: change how JIT is disabled
      jsauthority: JS::SetWarningReporter instead of JS_SetErrorReporter
      jsauthority: add UTF8 suffix to renamed functions
      jsauthority: pass "%s" format string to report functions
      jsauthority: s/JSBool/bool/
      jsauthority: s/jsval/JS::Value/
      jsauthority: s/JSVAL_NULL/JS::NullValue()/
      jsauthority: s/JSVAL_VOID/JS::UndefinedValue()/
      jsauthority: s/OBJECT_TO_JSVAL/JS::ObjectValue/
      jsauthority: s/STRING_TO_JSVAL/JS::StringValue/
      jsauthority: s/BOOLEAN_TO_JSVAL/JS::BooleanValue/
      jsauthority: JSVAL_TO_OBJECT (o) to o.toObjectOrNull()
      jsauthority: JSVAL_TO_STRING (s) to s.toString()
      jsauthority: JSVAL_IS_STRING (s) to s.isString()
      jsauthority: JSVAL_IS_NULL (o) to o.isNull()
      jsauthority: Fix up JS_CallFunctionName invocations
      jsauthority: use InterruptCallback api instead of OperationCallback
      jsauthority: redo how global objects are set up
      jsauthority: root some locals to the context
      jsauthority: adapt arguments for new JS::Compile API
      jsauthority: adapt arguments for new JS_ExecuteScript API
      jsauthority: use JS::Evaluate instead of JS_EvaluateScript
      jsauthority: fix up set_property methods
      jsauthority: stop using JS_GetStringCharsZ
      jsauthority: switch from JS_ConvertArguments to JS::CallArgsFromVp
      jsauthority: re-enable JIT
      Port JavaScript authority to mozjs52

Rui Matos (1):
      polkitpermission: Fix a memory leak on authority changes

Sebastien Bacher (1):
      Support polkit session agent running outside user session

Stef Walter (2):
      polkitagent: Fix access after dereference on hashtable
      polkitagent: No double warnings in polkit_agent_listener_register()

Sven Eden (1):
      configure: enable elogind support in PolicyKit

Yuri Chornoivan (1):
      Add Ukrainian translation

enkore (1):
      Fix abnomal formatting of authentication header lines

muzena (1):
      Add hr.po

Thanks to our contributors.

Colin Walters and Miloslav Trmač,
April 2, 2017

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polkit 0.113
--------------

NOTE: This release is an important security update, see below.

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.113.

Highlights:
 Fixes CVE-2015-4625, a local privilege escalation due to predictable
 authentication session cookie values. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project
 Zero for reporting this issue. For the future, authentication agents are
 encouraged to use PolkitAgentSession instead of using the D-Bus agent response
 API directly.

 Fixes CVE-2015-3256, various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the
 JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.

 Fixes CVE-2015-3255, a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate
 action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. Thanks to
 Laurent Bigonville for reporting this issue.

 Fixes CVE-2015-3218, which allowed any local user to crash polkitd. Thanks to
 Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero, for reporting this issue.

 On systemd-213 and later, the “active” state is shared across all sessions of
 an user, instead of being tracked separately.

 (pkexec), when not given a program to execute, runs the users’ shell by
 default.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185 or mozjs-17.0
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.112:

Colin Walters (17):
      PolkitSystemBusName: Add public API to retrieve Unix user
      examples/cancel: Fix to securely lookup subject
      sessionmonitor-systemd: Deduplicate code paths
      PolkitSystemBusName: Retrieve both pid and uid
      Port internals non-deprecated PolkitProcess API where possible
      Use G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS to avoid warning spam
      pkexec: Work around systemd injecting broken XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
      pkexec: Support just plain "pkexec" to run shell
      .dir-locals: Style for Emacs - we don't use tabs
      authority: Avoid cookie wrapping by using u64 counter
      CVE-2015-3218: backend: Handle invalid object paths in RegisterAuthenticationAgent
      build: Start using git.mk
      Revert "authority: Avoid cookie wrapping by using u64 counter"
      authority: Add a helper method for checking whether an identity is root
      CVE-2015-4625: Use unpredictable cookie values, keep them secret
      CVE-2015-4625: Bind use of cookies to specific uids
      README: Note to send security reports via DBus's mechanism

Kay Sievers (1):
      sessionmonitor-systemd: prepare for D-Bus "user bus" model

Lukasz Skalski (1):
      polkitd: Fix problem with removing non-existent source

Max A. Dednev (1):
      authority: Fix memory leak in EnumerateActions call results handler

Miloslav Trmač (24):
      Post-release version bump to 0.113
      Don't discard error data returned by polkit_system_bus_name_get_user_sync
      Fix a memory leak
      Refuse duplicate --user arguments to pkexec
      Fix a possible NULL dereference.
      Remove a redundant assignment.
      Simplify forced error domain registration
      Fix a typo, s/Evaluting/Evaluating/g
      s/INCLUDES/AM_CPPFLAGS/g
      Fix duplicate GError use when "uid" is missing
      Fix a crash when two authentication requests are in flight.
      docs: Update for changes to uid binding/AuthenticationAgentResponse2
      Don't pass an uninitialized JS parameter
      Don't add extra NULL group to subject.groups
      Don't store unrooted jsvals on heap
      Fix a per-authorization memory leak
      Fix a memory leak when registering an authentication agent
      Wrap all JS usage within “requests”
      Register heap-based JSObject pointers to GC
      Prevent builds against SpiderMonkey with exact stack rooting
      Clear the JS operation callback before invoking JS in the callback
      Fix spurious timeout exceptions on GC
      Fix GHashTable usage.
      Fix use-after-free in polkitagentsession.c

Philip Withnall (1):
      sessionmonitor-systemd: Use sd_uid_get_state() to check session activity

Rui Matos (1):
      PolkitAgentSession: fix race between child and io watches

Simon McVittie (1):
      Use libsystemd instead of older libsystemd-login if possible

Ting-Wei Lan (1):
      build: Fix several issues on FreeBSD

Xabier Rodriguez Calvar (1):
      Fixed compilation problem in the backend

Thanks to our contributors.

Colin Walters and Miloslav Trmač,
July 2, 2015

--------------
polkit 0.112
--------------

NOTE: This release is an important security update, see below.

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.112.

Highlights:
 This release fixes CVE-2013-4288: Race condition with process subjects that do
 not have securely determined uid.

 pkcheck(1) now supports a new format for the --process argument; all
 applications need to use the new format to avoid a race condition (or use
 --system-bus-name to identify the process instead).

 Similarly, applications using the API should always use
 polkit_unix_process_new_for_owner().  polkit_unix_process_new() and
 polkit_unix_process_new_full() are unsafe and have been deprecated.

 Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185 or mozjs-17.0
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.111:

Colin Walters (2):
      polkitunixprocess: Deprecate racy APIs
      pkcheck: Support --process=pid,start-time,uid syntax too

Miloslav Trmač (1):
      Post-release version bump to 0.112

Tomas Bzatek (1):
      Use GOnce for interface type registration

Tomas Chvatal (2):
      Add czech translation po file to distribution.
      Update the czech once more with newest pot file.

Thanks to our contributors.

Colin Walters and Miloslav Trmač,
September 18, 2013

--------------
polkit 0.111
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.111.

Highlights:
 The JavaScript interpreter is now mandatory.
 Both js185 and mozjs17 versions of SpiderMonkey are supported.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185 or mozjs-17.0
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.110:

Colin Walters (6):
      mocklibc: Only require autoconf 2.63
      configure: Specify GLib min/max version
      jsauthority: We can really only handle a string
      jsauthority: Use JSVAL_NULL rather than {0} struct initialization
      Revert "Dynamically load libmozjs185.so and cope with it not being available"
      jsauthority: Work with mozjs-17.0 too

David Zeuthen (1):
      Post-release version bump to 0.111

Giovanni Campagna (1):
      build: try harder to avoid systemd/consolekit misconfiguration

Michael Biebl (1):
      man: Fix pkaction man page wrt to --action-id option

Miloslav Trmač (28):
      Clean (git status) after autogen.sh
      Fix build with srcdir!=builddir
      Fix DOC_SOURCE_DIR for builddir != srcdir
      Fix various memory leaks.
      Add annotation glossary
      Leave out backend from gtk-doc generation
      Fix most "undocumented symbol" warnings
      Move polkit_temporary_authorization_new to private header file.
      Include documentation of polkit_action_description_get_annotation_keys
      Document deprecated functions.
      Fold enum documentation into relevant classes
      Fix an obvious docstring typo.
      Add annotations for element types of returned lists
      Add a FIXME to polkitprivate.h
      Use auth_admin* instead of auth_self* in examples
      More warnings about using auth_self*
      Fix a TypeError when no admin rules are registered
      Fix handling of null returned from _runRules
      Refuse non-string parameters to Polkit.spawn()
      Drop unused variable
      Fix a memory leak
      Remove an unused va_start
      Don't spawn man for --help
      Fix package version / bug report address mixing
      Add bug reporting address and home page to --help output
      Refuse unrecognized command-line operands
      Exit pkaction with status 0 on success
      Fix inclusion of COPYING into documentation with srcdir != builddir

Nuno Araujo (1):
      Fix the build with automake 1.13

Samuli Suominen (1):
      Add missing #include <sys/wait.h>

Steve Langasek (1):
      pkexec: Set process environment from pam_getenvlist()

Vincent Untz (1):
      polkitagent, pkexec: Respect SUID_CFLAGS and SUID_LDFLAGS

darkxst (1):
      update types for js188

Thanks to our contributors.

Miloslav Trmač,
May 15, 2013

--------------
polkit 0.110
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.110.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.109:

David Zeuthen (5):
      Post-release version bump to 0.110
      Set XAUTHORITY environment variable if is unset
      Use mutex and condition variables properly
      Remove AM_PROG_CC_STDC
      Update NEWS for release

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (1):
      Fix build on GNU Hurd

Michael Biebl (1):
      build: Remove generated introspection files on "make clean"

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
Jan 9, 2013

--------------
polkit 0.109
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.109.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.108:

David Zeuthen (4):
      Post-release version bump to 0.109
      Include gmodule-2.0 to avoid linker errors
      Don't require libmozjs185 devel packages for polkit rules to work
      Update NEWS for release

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
December 19, 2012

--------------
polkit 0.108
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.108.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.107:

Adam Jackson (1):
      PolkitAgent: Avoid crashing if initializing the server object fails

David Zeuthen (5):
      Post-release version bump to 0.108
      Fall back to authenticating as uid 0 if the list of admin identities is empty
      Dynamically load libmozjs185.so and cope with it not being available
      docs: mention the audience for authorization rules
      Update NEWS for release

Ryan Lortie (1):
      build: Fix .gir generation for parallel make

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
November 14, 2012

--------------
polkit 0.107
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.107

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.106:

David Zeuthen (7):
      Post-release version bump to 0.107
      Update guidance on situations where there is no polkit authority
      Nuke leftover polkit-backend-1.pc file
      Nuke --enable-verbose flag
      Introduce a polkit.Result enumeration for authorization rules
      pkexec: add support for argv1 annotation and mention shebang-wrappers
      Update NEWS for release

Matthias Clasen (1):
      Try harder to look up the right localization

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
July 11, 2012

--------------
polkit 0.106
--------------

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

This is polkit 0.106. There's a major change in this release which is
a switch from .pkla files (keyfile-format) to .rules files
(JavaScript), see

 http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/06/authorization-rules-in-polkit.html

for more information.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.30
 mozjs185
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.105:

Colin Walters (3):
      build: Check for mozjs185, not libjs
      autogen.sh: Fix check for libtool (we only need libtoolize)
      agenthelper-pam: Fix newline-trimming code

David Zeuthen (65):
      Post-release version bump to 0.106
      Add experimental authority backend using JavaScript rule files
      Include seat and session in Subject object
      Pass details to JS functions and simplify how Subject instances are constructed
      Clean up code a bit
      Add a couple of more error checks
      Collect garbage
      Emit ::Changed signal after reloading rules
      Reformat init.js and also avoid quoting non-string properties in toString()
      Make it possible for JS code to change details
      Add polkit.spawn() to spawn external programs
      Make polkit.spawn() take an array of arguments instead of a command-line
      Don't include command-line in spawning error messages
      docs: add AUTHORIZATION RULES section to the polkit(8) man page
      Also add an example of polkit.spawn() to polkit(8) man page
      docs: clarify how rules files work
      Also load rules from /usr/share/polkit/rules.d
      Use addRule() and addAdminRule()
      docs: emphasize that registered functions may actually never be called
      Add test cases for evaluation order
      Test that subject.isInGroup() works
      Add netgroup support
      Minor doc fixes
      Mention unix-netgroup:xyz as a valid return value in addAdminRule() functions
      Add test-cases and 10 second timeout for polkit.spawn()
      Create rules.d directories
      Update docs
      docs: enclose local <citerefentry> in <link> to make links work
      docs: update SEE ALSO to make each man page point to all other man pages
      Clarify docs a bit
      polkitd: add reference to polkit(8) from its man page
      Fix speling
      Fix a couple typos in the docs
      Mention details["polkit.message"] and add an example using details
      Use <variablelist> instead of <informaltable> for Subject attributes
      Make polkit_details_insert() remove the key if passed value is NULL
      Add real-world example featuring udisks2 and the drive.* variables it passes
      Rename --enable-systemd to --enable-libsystemd-login
      Fix distcheck
      Add a systemd .service file
      Nuke polkitbackend library, localauthority backend and extension system
      Mention systemd(1) in the polkitd(8) man page
      Store private binaries in /usr/lib/polkit-1 instead of /usr/libexec
      Add default rules
      Pass expanded identity list to the AuthenticationSession
      Use "rules", not "scripts" to refer to files in rules.d
      Terminate runaway scripts
      Use a condition variable to signal that runaway killer thread is ready
      Combine action and details parameters
      Clarify pkexec(1) variables
      Use g_unix_signal_add() from GLib 2.30
      Move polkitd into src/polkitbackend
      Ensure polkitd is rebuilt if libpolkit-backend-1.la changes
      Remove unused DBUS_GLIB_* and GIO_* variables
      Run polkitd as an unprivileged user
      Log when the name org.fd.PolicyKit1 has been acquired
      Rewrite the "Writing polkit applications" chapter
      Update links to udisks docs
      Update pkexec(1) man page with example
      Small updates to the "Writing polkit applications" chapter
      State that authorization rules must not rely on SpiderMonkey features
      Make it work when using ConsoleKit instead of libsystemd-login
      Mention the implications of returning *_keep in an authorization rule
      docs: add a "make sure your app works when there's no polkitd(8)" note
      Update NEWS for release

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
June 7, 2012

--------------
polkit 0.105
--------------

This is polkit 0.105

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to polkit
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    >= 2.28
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since polkit 0.104:

David Zeuthen (11):
      Post-release version bump
      PolkitUnixSession: Set error if we cannot find a session for the given pid
      PolkitUnixSession: Actually return TRUE if a session exists
      PolkitAgentSession: Don't leak file descriptors
      Add pkttyagent(1) helper
      Make it possible to influence agent registration with an a{sv} parameter
      Fix type in docs
      Mention pkttyagent(1) in "Writing PolicyKit applications" chapter
      Update the docs to use 'polkit' (instead of 'PolicyKit') as the name
      Add Makefile rules for signing and publishing releases and docs
      Update NEWS for release

Ryan Lortie (1):
      Various builddir != srcdir fixes

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
April 24, 2012

--------------
PolicyKit 0.104
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.104

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    >= 2.28
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)
 ConsoleKit OR systemd

Changes since PolicyKit 0.103:

 David Zeuthen (3):
      Post-release version bump to 0.104
      Detect whether systemd is available and default to use if so
      Update NEWS for release

 Matthias Clasen (1):
      Add optional systemd support

 Nikki VonHollen (2):
      Bug 43608 – Add unit tests
      Bug 43610 - Add netgroup support

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
January 3, 2012

--------------
PolicyKit 0.103
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.103

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    >= 2.28
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

IMPORTANT: As of release 0.103, the default Authority backend now
defaults to allowing members of the 'wheel' group to authenticate as
an administator since this is common usage in popular Linux
distributions. Distributors can change this by patching the
50-localauthority.conf file in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d as
needed.

Changes since PolicyKit 0.102:

 Alan Near (1):
      Mistype in DBus object: PoliycKit1 -> PolicyKit1

 David Zeuthen (7):
      Post-release version bump to 0.103
      Add support for the org.freedesktop.policykit.imply annotation
      Add --no-debug option and use this for D-Bus activation
      Bug 41025 – Add org.freedesktop.policykit.owner annotation
      Default to AdminIdentities=unix-group:wheel for local authority
      Update NEWS for release
      Fix typo

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
December 6, 2011

--------------
PolicyKit 0.102
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.102

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    >= 2.28
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.101:

 Benjamin Otte (1):
       introspection: Add --c-include to the gir files

 David Zeuthen (7):
       Post-release version bump to 0.102
       Don't show diagnostic messages intended for the administrator to the end u
       PolkitUnixProcess: Clarify that the real uid is returned, not the effectiv
       Make PolkitUnixProcess also record the uid of the process
       Use polkit_unix_process_get_uid() to get the owner of a process
       pkexec: Avoid TOCTTOU problems with parent process
       Update NEWS for release

 Evan Nemerson (1):
       Specify exported pkg-config files in GIRs

 Marc Deslauriers (1):
       Fix multi-line pam prompt handling

 Martin Pitt (3):
       Ignore .po/ for intltool
       Fix backend crash if a .policy file does not specify <message>
       Bug 38769 — pkexec: Support running X11 apps

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
August 1, 2011

--------------
PolicyKit 0.101
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.101

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    >= 2.28
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.100:

 Adrian Bunk (1):
       Bug 27253 – Use GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK from gobject-introspection

 David Zeuthen (16):
       Post-release version bump to 0.101
       Bug 30653 – No way to detect cancellation in pkexec
       Bug 27081 – pkexec fails to build on non glibc systems
       Bug 30438 – PolicyKit fails to build on AIX
       Bug 32334 – Always set polkit.retains_authorization_after_challenge
       Fix a memory leak
       Be more specific about what info we want when enumerating files
       Make pkcheck(1) report if the authentication dialog was dismissed
       pkcheck: Make it possible to list and revoke temporary authorizations
       Be a bit more careful parsing the command-line
       Bug 29712 – Use monotonic for temporary authorizations
       Allow overriding message shown in authentication dialog
       Deprecated PolkitBackendActionLookup
       Fix a couple of warnings triggered by gcc 4.6
       Build examples by default and fix compiler warnings
       Update NEWS for release

 Michael Biebl (1):
       Bug 29871 – Fix build failures with binutils-gold

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
March 3, 2011

--------------
PolicyKit 0.100
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.100

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    >= 2.25.12
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.99:

David Zeuthen (12):
      Post-release version bump to 0.100
      Add missing GObject Introspection annotations
      Build gir/typelib for PolkitAgent-1.0
      Fix-up PolkitAgentSession to use GObject properties
      Improve error reporting for authentication sessions
      Add some debug info that can be shown with the env var POLKIT_DEBUG
      Fix up debug and timeouts in agent helper
      Always pass non-zero value to g_once_init_leave()
      Add a note about POLKIT_DEBUG
      Pass caller and subject pid to authentication agent
      Update NEWS for release
      Fix 'make distcheck'

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
February 21, 2011

--------------
PolicyKit 0.99
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.99

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    >= 2.25.12
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.98:

 Colin Walters (3):
       Remove duplicate definitions of enumeration types
       Fix (correct) GCC warning about possibly-uninitialized variable
       Fix another GCC uninitialized variable warning

 David Zeuthen (2):
       Post-release version bump to 0.99
       Update NEWS for release

 Vincent Untz (1):
       Bug 29816 – Install polkitagentenumtypes.h

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
September 15, 2010

--------------
PolicyKit 0.98
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.98.

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    >= 2.25.12
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.97:

David Zeuthen (11):
      Post-release version bump to 0.98
      Require GLib 2.25.12
      Fix scanning of unix-process subjects
      Add textual authentication agent and use it in pkexec(1)
      Fix ConsoleKit interaction bug
      pkexec: add --disable-internal-agent option
      pkcheck: add --enable-internal-agent option
      Fix wording in pkexec(1) man page
      Various doc cleanups
      Fix dist-check
      Update NEWS for release

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
August 20, 2010

--------------
PolicyKit 0.97
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.97.

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.

The main change since the previous version is a port from eggdbus to
GLib's new D-Bus implementation. Other changes includes various bug
fixes and support for shadow authentication. Support for the
AddLockdown() and RemoveLockdown() methods has been removed. You will
need an updated version of PolicyKit-gnome to go with this release.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio    >= 2.25.11
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam (optional)

Changes since PolicyKit 0.96:

Andrew Psaltis (1):
      Add shadow support

Dan Rosenberg (1):
      Bug 26982 – pkexec information disclosure vulnerability

David Zeuthen (23):
      Post-release version bump to 0.97
      Port core bits to gdbus
      Port CK class to gdbus
      Port PolkitBackendInteractiveAuthority to gdbus
      Port PolkitAgent to gdbus
      Add generated docbook D-Bus API docs to git
      Nuke eggdbus usage
      Make polkitd accept --replace and gracefully handle SIGINT
      Implement polkit_temporary_authorization_new_for_gvariant()
      Remove Lock Down functionality
      Make NameOwnerChanged a private impl detail of the interactive authority
      Update README
      Merge remote branch 'origin/gdbus'
      Add a GPermission implementation
      PolkitAuthority: Implement failable initialization
      PolkitAuthority: Add g_return_if_fail() checks
      Add g_return_if_fail() to all public API entry points
      Use polkit_authority_get_sync() instead of deprecated polkit_authority_get
      PolkitBackend: Don't export unneeded convenience API
      Update GI annotations
      Don't dist org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.xml; It's dead, Jim
      Properly reference headers
      Update NEWS for release

Petr Mrázek (1):
      Bug 29051 – Configuration reload on every query

Thanks to our contributors.

David Zeuthen,
August 9, 2010

--------------
PolicyKit 0.96
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.96. This is supposed to be the last release until 1.0.

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             >= 0.6
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.95:

David Zeuthen (15):
      Bug 25367 — Also read local authority configuration data from /etc
      Fix logic error in pk-example-frobnicate
      Run the open_session part of the PAM stack in pkexec(1)
      Fix up last comment
      Bug 25594 – System logging
      Remove trailing whitespace from log messages
      Properly handle return value from getpwnam_r()
      Fix error message when no authentication agent is available
      Make pkexec(1) validate environment variables
      Make pkexec(1) use the syslogging facilities
      Save original cwd in pkexec(1) since it will change during the life-time
      Complain on stderr, not stdout
      Post-release version bump to 0.96
      Don't log authorization checks
      Update NEWS for release

David Zeuthen,
January 15, 2010

--------------
PolicyKit 0.95
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.95. This is supposed to be the last release until 1.0.

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             >= 0.6
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.94:

Alexander Sack (1):
      Bug 24566 – Properly _ref authority in singleton constructor

Andreas Sandberg (1):
      Bug 24235 – polkit-agent-helper may call pam_end with a stale pam handle

Bastien Nocera (1):
      Fix process start time when using polkit_unix_process_new_full()

David Zeuthen (20):
      Post-release version bump to 0.95
      Use correct program name when complaining about not being setuid root
      Sort by action id in pkaction(1) output
      Bug 23867 – UnixProcess vs. SystemBusName aliasing
      Implement lockdown for the Local Authority implementation
      Remove POLKIT_USER from configuration summary
      Add missing comma so we're save both LANG and LANGUAGE, not only LANGLANGUAGE
      Pass --libtool to g-ir-scanner
      Clarify comment on where to find process start-time on Linux
      Add properties with information about the currently used authority
      Clarify when AllowUserInteraction should and shouldn't be used
      Add methods AddLockdownForAction() and RemoveLockdownForAction()
      Port lockdown from pklalockdown(1) to D-Bus methods
      Drop ununsed policykit actions
      Remove TODO about symbol visibility as this has been fixed for a while
      Clarify pklocalauthority(8) man page
      Properly validate all arguments passed via D-Bus
      Add Python example
      Fix make distcheck
      Update NEWS for release

Matthias Clasen (1):
      Bug 24640 – Typos in pklocalauthority(8)

Michael Biebl (8):
      Trim the list of exported symbols
      Use _polkit_agent_marshal prefix
      Make private symbols accessible to libpolkitagent and libpolkitbackend
      Make examples optional
      Enable silent rules
      Remove POLKIT_USER option
      Don't include Polkit-1.0.gir in the dist tarball
      Bug 24176 – Current git master fails to build, GLIB_LDADD -> GLIB_LIBS

Samuel Thibault (1):
      Bug 24495 – Fails to build on platforms without PATH_MAX (like hurd)

David Zeuthen,
November 13, 2009

--------------
PolicyKit 0.94
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.94.

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
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.93:

 David Zeuthen (13):
       Post-release version bump to 0.94
       Require correct versions of glib and eggdbus
       Ignore .pkla files starting with dot and don't segfault on error path
       Allow unprivileged callers to check authorizations
       Don't spawn man(1) from a setuid program
       Add polkit.retains_authorization_after_challenge to authz result
       Ensure all fds except stdin/stdout/stderr are closed after exec(2)
       Be more careful when determining process start time
       Pass the right struct offset for the ::changed class signal handler
       Don't set the GError if the process doesn't exist
       Remove temporary authorization when the subject it applies to vanishes
       Generate GI gir and typelibs for libpolkit-gobject-1
       Update NEWS for release

 Joe Marcus Clarke (1):
       Bug 23093 – FreeBSD portability fixes

David Zeuthen,
August 12, 2009

--------------
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 0.92:

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

--------------
PolicyKit 0.92
--------------

This is PolicyKit 0.92.

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 >= 2.14
 eggdbus-1          >= 0.4
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.91:

 David Zeuthen (36):
      post-release version bump to 0.92
      install gtkdoc HTML in the proper location
      Fix D-Bus policy to work with non-permissive D-Bus
      Only allow privileged apps to check authz and add ActionLookup interface
      Change the PolkitAuthorizationResult enumeration into an object
      Port examples and command-line tools to new API
      Move docs to proper location
      Add a pkexec(1) command
      Mention /usr/bin/pkexec in the configure blurb
      Fix a bug where details were not shown for normal pkexec usage
      Use an object, not a GHashTable when passing details around
      Forgot to add source for PolkitDetails
      Change the defaults for .run-frobnicate to auth_self_keep
      Require eggdbus-1 >= 0.4
      Only free hash table if it's not NULL
      Avoid returning an error if no authentication agent is available
      Clarify docs for is_challenge member of the AuthorizationResult struct
      Add pkcheck(1) command to check for authorizations
      nullbackend: Catch up with latest API changes
      Return the icon name instead of a GIcon in PolkitActionDescription
      Add pkaction(1) and nuke polkit-1(1) commands
      Update SEE ALSO sections in man pages
      Add a man page for polkit-1(8)
      First cut at some high-level docs
      Improve pkexec(1) man page by adding screenshots of authentication dialogs
      Add some more API docs
      Add a "PolicyKit Overview" section to the docs
      Consolidate all gtk-doc stuff in docs/polkit
      Expand on the D-Bus docs
      Use .../extensions instead of ../backends for loading extensions
      Minor doc fixes
      Move the doc chapters around a bit
      Change GNOME to freedesktop.org in the docs
      Fix make distcheck
      Update NEWS
      Also dist polkitd-1.xml

 Richard Hughes (2):
      fix up gtk-doc API markup for a couple of functions
      add a draft version of the porting guide -- WIP

David Zeuthen,
June 8, 2009