February 4th, 2010
by James Morris
Atsec have announced the certification of RHEL 5.3 on Dell 11G server hardware to EAL4 (augmented). This is the first such certification to support RHEL running as a Xen guest, although the scope of the certification is limited to CAPP (Controlled Access Protection Profile).
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November 30th, 2009
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of version 20091123 of the SELinux userland codebase. Changes in this version include managing ‘dontaudit’ rules via the semanage tool, filesystem labeling on filesystems where SELinux is not enabled, and building for multiple target operating systems. This release, along with historical versions, may be downloaded from here.
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November 17th, 2009
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of Reference Policy version 2.20091117. This release includes new support for several application packages (including puppet and shorewall), as well as further advances in X Window system support. The release may be downloaded here.
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July 31st, 2009
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of version 20090731 of the SELinux userspace packages. This release includes several new features, including support for btrfs and labeling of virtual machines. Packages may be downloaded here, while the full source archive may be accessed by developers using git with the tag 20090731.
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July 30th, 2009
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of version 2.20090730 of Reference Policy. This release includes support for applying security labels to policy booleans; support for several new applications including pulseaudio and policykit; and many enhancements, including btrfs support. This release may be downloaded here.
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July 23rd, 2009
by James Morris
The schedule for the 2009 SELinux Developer Summit has been announced. The event this year will be held on the 20th of September in Portland OR, as part of LinuxCon, and feature a mix of formal presentations and collaborative sessions.
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June 23rd, 2009
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of version 3.6 of the CDS (Cross Domain Solutions) Framework, their Eclipse plugin for graphical designing secure information flow between systems. Included in this release is the ability to hide secondary information flows and interactive updates to the design based on audit system alerts.
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May 27th, 2009
by James Morris
KaiGai Kohei has announced the release of Apache/SELinux plus, a module which allows the Apache web server to launch web applications in specific SELinux security contexts. It will be packaged in the upcoming Fedora 11 as mod_selinux.
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May 23rd, 2009
by James Morris
The 2009 SELinux Developer Summit has been announced, and will take place on the 20th of September in Portland, Oregon as part of LinuxCon. The Call for Participation calls for talk and developer session proposals, with the primary topics of extensibility and usability. All those planning to attend are asked to join the event mailing list so the organizers can estimated numbers and provide any event updates.
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May 8th, 2009
by James Morris
A new graphical management application for SELinux called SEAdmin has been announced on the ubuntu-hardened mailing list. SEAdmin, developed in Mono and GTK#, is intended to be used with any distribution, and currently works under Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 10. More information, including screenshots, may be found at the project site.
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