News ==== Version 0.5.3 ------------- *released Thu, 30 Apr 2015* FreeBSD fixes: - Enable all FreeBSD versions after 7.x at level 2 (thanks to Garrett Cooper). - Make test suite pass under FreeBSD, which has a stricter behaviour with regards to invalid ACLs (which we do exercise in the test suite), thanks again to Garret for the bug reports. Version 0.5.2 ------------- *released Sat, 24 May 2014* No visible changes release: just fix tests when running under pypy. Version 0.5.1 ------------- *released Sun, 13 May 2012* A bug-fix only release. Critical bugs (memory leaks and possible segmentation faults) have been fixed thanks to Dave Malcolm and his ``cpychecker`` tool. Additionally, some compatibility issues with Python 3.x have been fixed (str() methods returning bytes). The documentation has been improved and changed from epydoc to sphinx; note however that the documentation is still auto-generated from the docstrings. Project reorganisation: the project home page has been moved from SourceForge to GitHub. Version 0.5 ----------- *released Sun, 27 Dec 2009* Added support for Python 3.x and improved support for Unicode filenames. Version 0.4 ----------- *released Sat, 28 Jun 2008* License ~~~~~~~ Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1, Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README and COPYING). Linux support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A few more Linux-specific functions: - add the ACL.equiv_mode() method, which will return the equivalent octal mode if this is a basic ACL and raise an IOError exception otherwise - add the acl_extended(...) function, which will check if an fd or path has an extended ACL FreeBSD support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 7.x will have almost all the acl manipulation functions that Linux has, with the exception of __getstate__/__setstate__. As a workaround, use the str() and ACL(text=...) methods to pass around textual representations. Interface ~~~~~~~~~ At module level there are now a few constants exported for easy-checking at runtime what features have been compiled in: - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the mode=0xxx parameter - HAS_ACL_CHECK, denoting whether ACL instances support the check() method - HAS_ACL_ENTRY, denoting whether ACL manipulation is possible and the Entry and Permset classes are available - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is supported - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the equiv_mode() method Internals ~~~~~~~~~ Many functions have now unittests, which is a good thing. Version 0.3 ----------- *released Sun, 21 Oct 2007* Linux support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl: - add ACL(mode=...), implementing acl_from_mode - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp - add ACL().check, which is a more descriptive function than validate .. Local Variables: .. mode: rst .. fill-column: 72 .. End: