March 6th, 2008
by James Morris
The NSA have announced the latest release of the core userland SELinux code. According to the changelog, changes in this release include support for policy capabilities (i.e. allowing features to be selectively implemented in policy), several enhancements to libselinux, optimized matchpathcon, improved error handling and various bugfixes. The release may be downloaded here. Also noted in the release is a new page on the NSA site: Related Work, providing links to information on the underlying architecture and non-Linux implementations.
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March 4th, 2008
by James Morris
The NSA announced the launch of a fine-grained MAC (FMAC) project for OpenSolaris. Similar to SELinux, FMAC is the integration of the Flask/TE security scheme into the OS. For more information, visit the FMAC project page.
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February 8th, 2008
by James Morris
Caleb Case has announced experimental support for SELinux in the server edition of Ubuntu Hardy (currently in alpha release). Further information for people wishing to help with testing and development may be found at the Hardy SELinux wiki page.
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January 21st, 2008
by James Morris
Shintaro Fujiwara has announced the release of version 4.40 of Segatex, the Qt-based GUI front-end for SELinux. This release improves coverage of the semanage utility.
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December 14th, 2007
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of the latest version of SELinux Reference Policy. The main feature of this release is the merging of strict and targeted policy into one. If the unconfined module is present, the policy will behave similar to the old targeted policy, but with the strict policy roles still available. There are also many general fixes and updates, including a Russian translation of the man page, support for exim, and support for Debian syslogd-listfiles.
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December 13th, 2007
by James Morris
Tresys have announced the release of version 1.3 of SLIDE, the graphical SELinux IDE. Notable in this version is integration with audit2allow, so that policy may be generated automatically from audit logs; and integration with SETools 3.3 to provide policy analysis capabilities from within SLIDE.
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November 26th, 2007
by James Morris
Shintaro Fujiwara has announced the release of version 4.00 of Segatex, his QT-based SELinux management tool. This version includes an updated look and feel, support for Fedora 8, and improved management capabilities.
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November 19th, 2007
by James Morris
Yuichi Nakamura has announced the release of version 2.2.0 of SELinux Policy Editor (SEEdit). This release includes support for Fedora 8 and embedded systems. The performance of the simplified policy compiler has been improved, and it also now supports cross compilation of policy.
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November 14th, 2007
by James Morris
Version 2.3 of Segatex, a Qt-based policy tool, has been released. With this release, policy modules for applications may be created and managed via a GUI, using audit messages to generate the policy.
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October 21st, 2007
by James Morris
Shintaro Fujiwara has announced the release of version 2.0 of his Segatex Suite, a QT-based policy analysis toolkit.
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