polkit 0.93

[David Zeuthen]

Hey,

It's time for some new releases

http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-0.93.tar.gz
http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-gnome-0.93.tar.bz2
http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/eggdbus-0.5.tar.gz

See [1] for release notes.

This release features two important things

1. Local authority

I wrote about the plans for this earlier, see

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2009-June/000135.html

It works mostly as described except for two things

 - there's no command-line tool to control this; and
 - there's no D-Bus API to control this

We might want to add these things later but I didn't really see any need
to add all this complexity - the idea is that users wanting to configure
authorizations can just use the well-defined files. I wrote some fairly
extensive docs about it here

http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pklocalauthority.8.html

2. Temporary Authorizations

There is now a way to a) get notified about temporary authorizations;
and b) revoke temporary authorizations. The latter is currently
restricted to insofar it's an all or nothing deal (e.g. you can revoke
all or nothing). We might add API to revoke individual authorizations if
it turns out we want that. PolicyKit-gnome has support for this; the UI
is very simple; basically just a status icon

 http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-tmp-authz.png

that will drop all authorizations if clicked. There is some slight API
breakage in libpolkit-gobject-1, libpolkit-agent-1 and the D-Bus
interface but nothing that mechanisms would want to use. So since we are
still in the pre-1.0 game, I didn't bump the soname.

It looks like we now have all the features needed for 1.0. The next
release will focus on security review, improving the docs and cleaning
up the code.

Thanks,
David

[1] :

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PolicyKit 0.93
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This is PolicyKit 0.93.

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
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.93:

David Zeuthen (16):
      Post-release version bump to 0.93
      GIO modules need to be prefix with lib
      Cancel an authentication if the unique name for the subject vanishes
      Plug a couple of memory leaks
      Move local authority management to a separate library
      Rip out polkit-local and refactor local authority to only use tmp authz
      Move authentication agent bits to separate authority subclass
      Also pass the identity of the subject we are checking for
      Actually make the local authority look up authorization files
      In .pkla files, use Result{Any,Inactive,Active} instead of just Result
      Rename some man pages and the daemon binary
      Add docs detailing how the Local Authority works
      Add support for querying and revoking temporary authorizations
      Fix make distcheck
      Update TODO
      Update NEWS for release

Yanko Kaneti (2):
      Use unique ids for sections to prevent them being autogenerated
      More unique ids to get the docs build fully predictable

David Zeuthen,
July 20th, 2009

==========
polkit-gnome 0.93
==========

This is polkit-gnome version 0.93.

Build requirements

 polkit    >= 0.93
 gtk+-2.0  >= 2.17.1

Changes since 0.92:

David Zeuthen (8):
      Post-release version bump to 0.93
      Fix desktop file
      Nuke unused stuff
      Bug 584847 – Get rid of libsexy, use new GtkLabel link support
      Display a status icon if we have temporary authorizations
      Bug 589150 – Install autostart desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart
      Require polkit version 0.93 since the API changed slightly
      Update NEWS for release

David Zeuthen,
July 20th, 2009