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4 Version 0.5.4

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7 *released Thu, 14 Nov 2019*

9 Maintenance release:

11 - Switch build system to Python 3 by default (can be overridden if

12 needed).

13 - Internal improvements for better cpychecker support.

14 - Fix compatibility with PyPy.

15 - Test improvements (both local and on Travis), testing more variations

16 (debug, PyPy).

17 - Improve test coverage, and allow gathering test coverage results.

18 - Drop support (well, drop testing) for Python lower than 2.7.

19 - Minor documentation improvements (closes #9, #12).

21 Version 0.5.3

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24 *released Thu, 30 Apr 2015*

26 FreeBSD fixes:

28 - Enable all FreeBSD versions after 7.x at level 2 (thanks to Garrett

29 Cooper).

30 - Make test suite pass under FreeBSD, which has a stricter behaviour

31 with regards to invalid ACLs (which we do exercise in the test suite),

32 thanks again to Garret for the bug reports.

34 Version 0.5.2

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37 *released Sat, 24 May 2014*

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

41 Version 0.5.1

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44 *released Sun, 13 May 2012*

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

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

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

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

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

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

53 docstrings.

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

56 SourceForge to GitHub.

59 Version 0.5

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62 *released Sun, 27 Dec 2009*

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

66 Version 0.4

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69 *released Sat, 28 Jun 2008*

71 License

72 ~~~~~~~

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

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

77 Linux support

78 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

80 A few more Linux-specific functions:

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

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

84 otherwise

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

87 has an extended ACL

89 FreeBSD support

90 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

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

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

95 textual representations.

97 Interface

98 ~~~~~~~~~

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

101 at runtime what features have been compiled in:

102

103 - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the

104 mode=0xxx parameter

105

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

107 method

108

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

110 Entry and Permset classes are available

111

112 - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is

113 supported

114

115 - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the

116 equiv_mode() method

117

118 Internals

119 ~~~~~~~~~

120

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

122

123

124 Version 0.3

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126

127 *released Sun, 21 Oct 2007*

128

129 Linux support

130 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

131

132 Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:

133

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

135 - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text

136 - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp

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

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