Karl MacMillan announces the release of a new SELinux book: SELinux By Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux, which he co-authored along with Frank Meyer and David Caplan of Tresys.

This appears to be a very comprehensive book, including very detailed explanations of the policy language, how to use SELinux to achieve specific security goals, and information on recent features including the new policy infrastructure (much of which was developed by the authors).

The SELinux Symposium has posted its dates and the call for papers for 2007. More information can be found at the press release.

Heise reports that the upcoming 4.0 release of Debian will mark the start of support for SELinux. This is the result of a project by Manoj Srivastava to further the initial Debian SELinux work by Russell Coker, re-syncing with upstream and incorporating SELinux into the mainstream Debian project.

See also: SELinux page on the Debian Wiki.

Tresys has announced the availability of an open source server where their projects will be hosted. The reference policy is the first project to be moved and anonymous subversion access for it is now available.

Tresys has announced that a preview of their newest product, Brickwall, is now available for download at their products webpage. Tresys Brickwall allows administrators to configure fine-gained network access control for individual applications without having special knowledge of SELinux.

Yuichi Nakamura has announced the release of seedit 2.0, an SELinux policy editor. It includes a simplified policy scheme, and a new GUI. See screenshots at the SF project page.

This site has been upgraded to the new 2.0.3 release of Wordpress, which includes some security backports from the 2.1 development code, as well as a shell injection vulnerability discussed on Bugtraq. The site seems to be running ok, but please email me at jmorris@namei.org if you see anything weird.

Tresys also today announced the release of version 2.4 of Setools, their policy analysis toolkit, with updates for several components of the project.

Tresys has announced a new version of their Eclipse-based SELinux Policy Development IDE (SLIDE). New features include a refactoring utility, generation of policy based on user selection and various improvements to the user interface.

IBM have announced a new version of the Linux Test Project (LTP) with SELinux coverage expanded to cover reference policy.