Archive for May, 2010

SELinux Userspace 20100525 Released

by James Morris |  Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Tresys have announced version 20100525 of the SELinux userspace suite. Changes in this version include the ability to enable or disable semodule support, generation of ‘dontaudit’ rules via audtit2allow, improved documentation and improved support across different distributions. Source packages may be downloaded here, with the entire repository also available via git.

Reference Policy 2.20100524 Released

by James Morris |  Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Tresys have announced the release of version 2.20100524 of Reference Policy. Included in this release is a merge of a significant portion of the Fedora policy package, support for non-graphical X clients, updated Gentoo support, and improved documentation. This release is available at the download page.

SELinux Notebook Edition 2 Released

by James Morris |  Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Richard Haines has released the 2nd edition of The SELinux Notebook, an extensive work of documentation aimed at explaining SELinux to newcomers. It is also intended to be a reference document for the policy language and configuration. The Notebook has now been split into two volumes: The Foundations and Sample Policy Source, and updated to the latest implementation of SELinux in the Fedora 12 distribution. New topics in this edition include virtualization (sVirt), SE-PostgreSQL, XSELinux and Apache/SELinux Plus. The notebook may be downloaded here.

SETools 3.3.7 Released

by James Morris |  Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Tresys have announced the release of version 3.3.7 of the SETools policy analysis suite. Changes in this release include general usability improvements, bugfixes, and improved support for policy constraints.