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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.1".
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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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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.6.0".
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Version 1.6.0 (2012-06-18)
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* Server
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** Takes new --foreground option
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** Init script supports new "status" action.
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* Client
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** Now uses all interfaces by default; the --interface option can
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   still be used to restrict it, and the argument to --interface (as
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   well as the $DEVICE environment variable for the network hooks) is
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   now a comma-separated list of interfaces to use.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.5".
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Version 1.5.5 (2012-06-01)
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* Server
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** Server takes new --socket option
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.4".
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Version 1.5.4 (2012-05-20)
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* Server
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** Bug fix: Regression fix: Make non-zero approval timeout values work.
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** Bug fix: Regression fix: Allow changing the Timeout D-Bus property.
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** Fall back to not bind to an interface if an invalid interface name
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   is given.
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** Removed support for undocumented feature of using plain "%%s" in
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   "checker" client option.
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** Old D-Bus interface are now marked as deprecated.
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** mandos-monitor: Bug fix: show approval timers correctly.
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** mandos-ctl: Show "Extended Timeout" correctly, not as milliseconds.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.3".
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Version 1.5.3 (2012-01-15)
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* Server
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** Add D-Bus property se.recompile.Client.LastCheckerStatus and use it
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   in mandos-monitor.
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* Client
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** Fix bugs in the example "bridge" network hook.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.2".
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Version 1.5.2 (2012-01-08)
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* Server
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** Removed D-Bus signal se.recompile.Mandos.NewRequest() added in
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   1.5.0.  It was buggy and was of questionable utility.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.1".
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Version 1.5.1 (2012-01-01)
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* Server
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** Include intro(8mandos) manual page, missing since migration from
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   README file in version 1.4.0.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.5.0".
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Version 1.5.0 (2012-01-01)
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* Client
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** Network hooks.  The Mandos client can now run custom scripts to take
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   up a network interface before the client is run.  Three example
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   scripts are provided: "wireless", "openvpn", and "bridge".
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   To facilitate this, the client now prefers network interfaces which
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   are up (if any) over all other interfaces.
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* Server
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** Persistent state.  Client state is now saved between server
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   restarts.
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** clients.conf file can now contain "enabled" setting for clients.
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** Bug fix: Fix rare crash bug.
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** Bug fix: Send corrent D-Bus type in PropertyChanged for
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   "ApprovalDelay", "ApprovalDuration", "Timeout", and
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   "ExtendedTimeout".
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** mandos-ctl: Bare numbers as arguments are taken to be milliseconds.
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** Bug fix: mandos-ctl --secret option now works.
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** New D-Bus signal: se.recompile.Mandos.NewRequest(s).
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289 by Björn Påhlsson
* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.4.1".
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Version 1.4.1 (2011-10-15)
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* Server
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** Make D-Bus properties settable again, and handle checkers
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   for disabled clients correctly.
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* Miscellaneous fixes to "pedantic" Lintian warnings
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.4.0".
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Version 1.4.0 (2011-10-09)
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* README file migrated to manual page intro(8mandos).
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* Client:
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** Fixed warning about "rmdir: Directory not empty".
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* Server:
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** Default values changed: timeout 5 minutes, interval 2 minutes.
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** Clients gets an expiration extension when receiving a password,
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   controlled by new "extended_timeout" setting.
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** New domain name: "fukt.bsnet.se" changes to "recompile.se".  This
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   also affects the D-Bus bus and interface names (old names still
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   work).  Users should start using the new names immediately.
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** New D-Bus Client object properties "Expires" and "ExtendedTimeout";
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   see DBUS-API for details.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.3.1".
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Version 1.3.1 (2011-07-27)
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* Client:
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** Client now retries all Mandos servers periodically.
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** Work around Debian bug #633582 - fixes "Permission denied" problem.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.3.0".
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Version 1.3.0 (2011-03-08)
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* Server:
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** Updated for Python 2.6.
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* Client:
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** Bug fix: Make the password-prompt plugin not conflict with
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   Plymouth.
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** Bug fix: Bug fix: update initramfs also when purging package.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.2.3".
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Version 1.2.3 (2010-10-11)
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* Server:
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** Bug fix: Expose D-Bus API also in non-debug mode.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.2.2".
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Version 1.2.2 (2010-10-07)
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* Client:
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** splashy: Minor fix to compile with non-Linux kernels.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.2.1".
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Version 1.2.1 (2010-10-02)
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* Server:
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** mandos-monitor(8): Documentation bug fix: Key for removing client
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   is "R", not "r".
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.2".
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Version 1.2 (2010-09-28)
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* Client:
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** New "plymouth" plugin to ask for a password using the Plymouth
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   graphical boot system.
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** The Mandos client now automatically chooses a network interface if
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   the DEVICE setting in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf is set to
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   the empty string.  This is also the new default instead of "eth0".
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** The Mandos client --connect option now loops indefinitely until a
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   password is received from the specified server.
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** Bug fix: Quote directory correctly in mandos-keygen with --password
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** Bug fix: don't use "echo -e" in mandos-keygen; unsupported by dash.
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* Server:
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** Terminology change: clients are now "ENABLED" or "DISABLED", not
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   "valid" or "invalid".
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** New D-Bus API; see the file "DBUS-API".
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** New control utilities using the new D-Bus API:
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   + mandos-ctl		       A command-line based utility
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   + mandos-monitor	       A text-based GUI interface
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** New feature: manual interactive approval or denying of clients on a
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   case-by-case basis.
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** New --debuglevel option to control logging
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** Will not write PID file if --debug is passed
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** Bug fix: Avoid race conditions with short "interval" values or
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   fast checkers.
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** Bug fix: Don't try to bind to a network interface when none is
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   specified
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.14".
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Version 1.0.14 (2009-10-25)
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Enable building without -pie and -fPIE if BROKEN_PIE is set.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.13".
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Version 1.0.13 (2009-10-22)
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* Client
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** Security bug fix: If Mandos server is also installed, do not copy
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   its config files (with encrypted passwords) into the initrd.img-*
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   files.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.12".
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Version 1.0.12 (2009-09-17)
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** Bug fix: Allow network interface renaming by "udev" by taking down
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   the network interface after using it.
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** Bug fix: User-supplied plugins are now installed correctly.
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** Bug fix: If usplash was used but the password was instead provided
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   by the Mandos server, the usplash daemon used to ignore the first
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   command passed to it.  This has been fixed.
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** Bug fix: Make the "--userid" and "--groupid" options in
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   "plugin-runner.conf" work.
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* Server
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** Bug fix: Fix the LSB header in the init.d script to make dependency
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   based booting work.
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** A client receiving its password now also counts as if a checker was
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   run successfully (i.e. the timeout timer is reset).
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.11".
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Version 1.0.11 (2009-05-23)
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** Bug fix: Use "pkg-config" instead of old "libgnutls-config".
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.10".
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Version 1.0.10 (2009-05-17)
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** Security bug fix: Fix permissions on initrd.img-*.bak files when
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   upgrading from older versions.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.9".
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Version 1.0.9 (2009-05-17)
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* Client
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** Security bug fix: Fix permissions on initrd.img file when
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   installing new linux-image-* packages calling mkinitramfs-kpkg (all
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   version lower than 2.6.28-1-* does this).
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.8".
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Version 1.0.8 (2009-02-25)
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** Bug fix: Fix missing quote characters in initramfs-tools-hook.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.7".
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Version 1.0.7 (2009-02-24)
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** Bug fix: Do not depend on GNU awk.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.6".
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Version 1.0.6 (2009-02-13)
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* Server
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** Fix bug where server would stop responding, with a zombie checker
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** Support for disabling IPv6 (only for advanced users)
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** Fix bug which made server not change group ID
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** Bug fix: Fix permission for /lib64 (on relevant architechtures).
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** Add support for IPv4 addresses.
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** Add support in mandos-client for not bringing up a network
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   interface by specifying an empty string to "--interface".
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** Make password prompt on boot not be mangled by kernel log messages
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   about network interface.
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** Get network interface from initramfs.conf and/or from kernel
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   command line.
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** If set by "ip=" kernel command line, configure network on boot.
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** Support connecting directly using "mandos=connect" kernel command.
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   line option, provided network is configured using "ip=".
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** Fix bug which made plugin-runner and mandos-client not change group
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   ID.
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** Fix bug where the "--options-for" option of plugin-runner would
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   truncate the value at the first colon character.
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** Fix bug where plugin-runner would not go to fallback if all plugins
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   failed.
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** Fix bug where mandos-client would not clean temporary directory on
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   a signal or on certain file systems.
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** Bug fix: remove bashism in /bin/sh script "mandos-keygen".
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.5".
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Version 1.0.5 (2009-01-17)
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** Fix small memory leak in plugin-runner.
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* debian/changelog (1.0.4-1): New entry.
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Version 1.0.4 (2009-01-15)
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** Only find matched user/group pairs when searching for suitable
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   nonprivileged user/group to switch to.
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** New kernel parameter "mandos=off" makes client not run at boot.
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** Fix linking errors and compilation warnings on AMD64.
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** Parse numbers in command line options better.
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** The splashy and usplash plugins are more robust while traversing
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   /proc, and will not abort if a process suddenly disappears.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.3".
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Version 1.0.3 (2009-01-06)
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** Now tries to change to user and group "_mandos" before falling back
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** Now does not abort on startup even if no clients are defined in
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** Plugins named "*.dpkg-bak" are now ignored.
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** Hopefully fixed compilation failure on some architectures where the
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   C compiler does not recognize the "-z" option as a linker option.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.2".
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Version 1.0.2 (2008-10-17)
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* mandos-keygen now signs the encrypted key blobs.  This signature is
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  not currently verified by mandos-client, but this may change in the
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  future.
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* Makefile (version): Changed to "1.0.1".
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Version 1.0.1 (2008-10-07)
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** Expand environment variables and ~user in clients.conf's "secfile"
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* Client (plugin-runner, plugins, etc.)
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** Manual pages for the usplash, splashy, and askpass-fifo plugins.
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   All plugins now have man pages.
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** More secure compilation and linking flags.
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   All programs are now compiled with "-fstack-protector-all -fPIE
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* There is now a "NEWS" file (this one), giving a history of
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  noteworthy changes.