polkit 0.94

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Wed Aug 12 12:28:06 PDT 2009


Hey,

Here's a couple of new releases

 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-0.94.tar.gz
 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-gnome-0.94.tar.bz2

See below for changes.

Thanks,
David

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PolicyKit 0.94
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This is PolicyKit 0.94.

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    >= 2.21.4
 eggdbus-1             >= 0.5
 gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.93:

 David Zeuthen (13):
       Post-release version bump to 0.94
       Require correct versions of glib and eggdbus
       Ignore .pkla files starting with dot and don't segfault on error path
       Allow unprivileged callers to check authorizations
       Don't spawn man(1) from a setuid program
       Add polkit.retains_authorization_after_challenge to authz result
       Ensure all fds except stdin/stdout/stderr are closed after exec(2)
       Be more careful when determining process start time
       Pass the right struct offset for the ::changed class signal handler
       Don't set the GError if the process doesn't exist
       Remove temporary authorization when the subject it applies to vanishes
       Generate GI gir and typelibs for libpolkit-gobject-1
       Update NEWS for release

 Joe Marcus Clarke (1):
       Bug 23093 – FreeBSD portability fixes

David Zeuthen,
August 12, 2009


==========
polkit-gnome 0.94
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This is polkit-gnome version 0.94.

Build requirements

 polkit    >= 0.94
 gtk+-2.0  >= 2.17.1

Changes since 0.93:

David Zeuthen (5):
      Post-release version bump to 0.94
      Add libpolkit-gtk-1 with a PolkitLockButton widget
      Make use of new API to better cope with one-shot authorizations
      Clarify docs for PolkitLockButton
      Update NEWS for release

David Zeuthen,
August 12, 2009




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