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4 Version 0.5.2

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7 No visible changes release: just fix tests when running under pypy.

9 Version 0.5.1

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12 A bug-fix only release. Critical bugs (memory leaks and possible

13 segmentation faults) have been fixed thanks to Dave Malcolm and his

14 ``cpychecker`` tool. Additionally, some compatibility issues with Python

15 3.x have been fixed (str() methods returning bytes).

17 The documentation has been improved and changed from epydoc to sphinx;

18 note however that the documentation is still auto-generated from the

19 docstrings.

21 Project reorganisation: the project home page has been moved from

22 SourceForge to GitHub.

25 Version 0.5

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28 Added support for Python 3.x and improved support for Unicode filenames.

30 Version 0.4

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33 License

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36 Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1,

37 Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README and COPYING).

39 Linux support

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42 A few more Linux-specific functions:

44 - add the ACL.equiv_mode() method, which will return the equivalent

45 octal mode if this is a basic ACL and raise an IOError exception

46 otherwise

48 - add the acl_extended(...) function, which will check if an fd or path

49 has an extended ACL

51 FreeBSD support

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54 FreeBSD 7.x will have almost all the acl manipulation functions that

55 Linux has, with the exception of __getstate__/__setstate__. As a

56 workaround, use the str() and ACL(text=...) methods to pass around

57 textual representations.

59 Interface

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62 At module level there are now a few constants exported for easy-checking

63 at runtime what features have been compiled in:

65 - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the

66 mode=0xxx parameter

68 - HAS_ACL_CHECK, denoting whether ACL instances support the check()

69 method

71 - HAS_ACL_ENTRY, denoting whether ACL manipulation is possible and the

72 Entry and Permset classes are available

74 - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is

75 supported

77 - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the

78 equiv_mode() method

80 Internals

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83 Many functions have now unittests, which is a good thing.

86 Version 0.3

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89 Linux support

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92 Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:

94 - add ACL(mode=...), implementing acl_from_mode

95 - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text

96 - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp

97 - add ACL().check, which is a more descriptive function than validate

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