7 A bug-fix only release. Critical bugs (memory leaks and possible
8 segmentation faults) have been fixed thanks to Dave Malcolm and his
9 ``cpychecker`` tool. Additionally, some compatibility issues with Python
10 3.x have been fixed (str() methods returning bytes).
12 The documentation has been improved and changed from epydoc to sphinx;
13 note however that the documentation is still auto-generated from the
16 Project reorganisation: the project home page has been moved from
17 SourceForge to GitHub.
23 Added support for Python 3.x and improved support for Unicode filenames.
31 Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1,
32 Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README and COPYING).
37 A few more Linux-specific functions:
39 - add the ACL.equiv_mode() method, which will return the equivalent
40 octal mode if this is a basic ACL and raise an IOError exception
43 - add the acl_extended(...) function, which will check if an fd or path
49 FreeBSD 7.x will have almost all the acl manipulation functions that
50 Linux has, with the exception of __getstate__/__setstate__. As a
51 workaround, use the str() and ACL(text=...) methods to pass around
52 textual representations.
57 At module level there are now a few constants exported for easy-checking
58 at runtime what features have been compiled in:
60 - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the
63 - HAS_ACL_CHECK, denoting whether ACL instances support the check()
66 - HAS_ACL_ENTRY, denoting whether ACL manipulation is possible and the
67 Entry and Permset classes are available
69 - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is
72 - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the
78 Many functions have now unittests, which is a good thing.
87 Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:
89 - add ACL(mode=...), implementing acl_from_mode
90 - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text
91 - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp
92 - add ACL().check, which is a more descriptive function than validate
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