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4 Version 0.5.3

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7 *released Thu, 30 Apr 2015*

9 FreeBSD fixes:

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

12 Cooper).

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

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

15 thanks again to Garret for the bug reports.

17 Version 0.5.2

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20 *released Sat, 24 May 2014*

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

24 Version 0.5.1

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27 *released Sun, 13 May 2012*

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

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

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

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

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

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

36 docstrings.

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

39 SourceForge to GitHub.

42 Version 0.5

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45 *released Sun, 27 Dec 2009*

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

49 Version 0.4

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52 *released Sat, 28 Jun 2008*

54 License

55 ~~~~~~~

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

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

60 Linux support

61 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

63 A few more Linux-specific functions:

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

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

67 otherwise

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

70 has an extended ACL

72 FreeBSD support

73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

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

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

78 textual representations.

80 Interface

81 ~~~~~~~~~

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

84 at runtime what features have been compiled in:

86 - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the

87 mode=0xxx parameter

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

90 method

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

93 Entry and Permset classes are available

95 - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is

96 supported

98 - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the

99 equiv_mode() method

100

101 Internals

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103

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

105

106

107 Version 0.3

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109

110 *released Sun, 21 Oct 2007*

111

112 Linux support

113 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

114

115 Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:

116

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

118 - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text

119 - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp

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

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