PolicyKit: Branch 'master'
David Zeuthen
david at kemper.freedesktop.org
Mon Jun 8 13:04:29 PDT 2009
NEWS | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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New commits:
commit 8a10af06eedf0de7ff9bdda7dbf34c95fc8b17aa
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 16:01:49 2009 -0400
Update NEWS
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+--------------
+PolicyKit 0.92
+--------------
+
+This is PolicyKit 0.92.
+
+WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to PolicyKit
+1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
+some security review. Use at your own risk.
+
+Build requirements
+
+ glib, gobject, gio >= 2.14
+ eggdbus-1 >= 0.4
+ pam
+
+Changes since PolicyKit 0.91:
+
+ David Zeuthen (35):
+ post-release version bump to 0.92
+ install gtkdoc HTML in the proper location
+ Fix D-Bus policy to work with non-permissive D-Bus
+ Only allow privileged apps to check authz and add ActionLookup interface
+ Change the PolkitAuthorizationResult enumeration into an object
+ Port examples and command-line tools to new API
+ Move docs to proper location
+ Add a pkexec(1) command
+ Mention /usr/bin/pkexec in the configure blurb
+ Fix a bug where details were not shown for normal pkexec usage
+ Use an object, not a GHashTable when passing details around
+ Forgot to add source for PolkitDetails
+ Change the defaults for .run-frobnicate to auth_self_keep
+ Require eggdbus-1 >= 0.4
+ Only free hash table if it's not NULL
+ Avoid returning an error if no authentication agent is available
+ Clarify docs for is_challenge member of the AuthorizationResult struct
+ Add pkcheck(1) command to check for authorizations
+ nullbackend: Catch up with latest API changes
+ Return the icon name instead of a GIcon in PolkitActionDescription
+ Add pkaction(1) and nuke polkit-1(1) commands
+ Update SEE ALSO sections in man pages
+ Add a man page for polkit-1(8)
+ First cut at some high-level docs
+ Improve pkexec(1) man page by adding screenshots of authentication dialogs
+ Add some more API docs
+ Add a "PolicyKit Overview" section to the docs
+ Consolidate all gtk-doc stuff in docs/polkit
+ Expand on the D-Bus docs
+ Use .../extensions instead of ../backends for loading extensions
+ Minor doc fixes
+ Move the doc chapters around a bit
+ Change GNOME to freedesktop.org in the docs
+ Fix make distcheck
+ Update NEWS
+
+ Richard Hughes (2):
+ fix up gtk-doc API markup for a couple of functions
+ add a draft version of the porting guide -- WIP
+
+David Zeuthen,
+June 8, 2009
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