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Steve Grubb
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0.9.2
- Added netcap --advanced option for attack surface discovery and inventory
- Added acct name to pscap --tree output
- Code cleanups and deep review of all functions for correctness
- Add colorized output to netcap --advanced
- Improve correctness of cap-audit captures
- Update man pages

0.9.1
- Deprecate captest
- In cap-audit, if tested app uses file system based capabilities, drop setpcap
- In cap-audit, fully resolve paths before classifying
- In cap-audit, add JSON escaping to output
- In cap-audit, filter pre-exec, startup, and shutdown capability noise
- pscap now has a --tree disply mode
- More code cleanups
- Improve output alignment of various utilities (Miroslav Koškár)

0.9
- Fix python path when invoking py-compile (Jan Palus)
- Drop python2 bindings (Rudi Heitbaum)
- Optimize capability name translation lookups
- Add cap-audit utility

0.8.5
- Remove python global exception handler since it's deprecated
- Make the utilities link against just built libraries
- Remove unused macro in cap-ng.h

0.8.4
- In capng_change_id, clear PR_SET_KEEPCAPS if returning an error
- pscap: add -p option for reporting a specified process (Masatake Yamato)
- Annotate function prototypes to warn if results are unused
- Drop python2 support

0.8.3
- Fix parameters to capng_updatev python bindings to be signed
- Detect capability options at runtime to make containerization easier (ntkme)
- Initialize the library when linked statically
- Add gcc function attributes for deallocation

0.8.2
- In capng_apply, if we blew up in bounding set, allow setting capabilities
- If PR_CAP_AMBIENT is not available, do not build libdrop_ambient
- Improve last_cap check

0.8.1
- If procfs is not available, leave last_cap as CAP_LAST_CAP
- If bounding and ambient not found in status, try prctl method
- In capng_apply, move ambient caps to the end of the transaction
- In capng_apply, return errors more aggressively.
- In capng_apply, if the action includes the bounding set,resync with the kernel
- Fix signed/unsigned warning in cap-ng.c
- In capng_apply, return a unique error code to diagnose any failure
- In capng_have_capability, return 0 for failure
- Add the libdrop_ambient admin tool

0.8
- Add vararg support to python bindings for capng_updatev
- Add support for ambient capabilities
- Add support for V3 filesystem capabilities

0.7.11
- Really clear bounding set if asked in capng_change_id
- Add CAP_PERFMON, CAP_BPF, & CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
- Avoid malloc/free in capng_apply (Natanael Copa)
- If procfs is not available, get bounding set via prctl
- Cleanup some compiler warnings

0.7.10
- Update capng_change_id man page
- Add capng_have_permitted_capabilities function
- Update filecap to output which set the capabilities are in
- Fix filecap to not output an error when a file has no capabilities
- Add udplite support to netcap
- Fix usage of pthread_atfork (Joe Orton)
- Mark processes in child user namespaces with * (Danila Kiver)

0.7.9
- Fix byte compiling python3 bindings
- Detect and output a couple errors in filecap
- Use pthread_atfork to optionally reset the pid and related info on fork
- Rework spec file to show new python2/3 separation

0.7.8
- Improve Python3 support
- Fix the thread separation test
- Correct typo in cap_pacct text
- Update man page for captest
- Fix sscanf string lengths in netcap
- Correct linking of python3 module

0.7.7
- Make sure all types used in _lnode are defined in proc-llist.h
- Fix python binding test for old kernels
- Fix leaked FD in library init 

0.7.6
- Fix python3 support

0.7.5
- Make python3 supported
- In python bindings test, clamp CAP_LAST_CAP with /proc/.../cap_last_cap
- Update table for 3.16 kernel

0.7.4
- In pscap, remove unused code
- Add CAPNG_INIT_SUPP_GRP to capng_change_id
- Drop CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL
- Update the autotools components
- Dynamically detect last capability (#895105)
- Add PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS to capng_lock if kernel supports it

0.7.3
- Make sure stderr is used consistently in utils
- Fix logic causing file based capabilities to not be supported when it should

0.7.1
- Add CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL
- Define FTW_CONTINUE in case its not defined in libc
- Use glibc for xattr.h if available

0.7
- Make file opens use the cloexec flag (Cristian Rodríguez)
- Add CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
- Fix possible segfaults when CAP_LAST_CAP is larger than the lookup table
- In pscap, don't drop capabilities when running with capabilities

0.6.6
- In netcap, make sure readlink is handled properly
- Add CAP_SYSLOG
- In netcap and pscap, ensure euid is initialized
- Add CAP_WAKE_ALARM

0.6.5
- Fix self test build problem on clean system (Sterling X. Winter)
- Only open regular files in filecap
- Make building Python bindings optional
- Python bindings update (arfrever.fta)
- Fix filecap segfault when checking a specific file
- Add define for missing XATTR_NAME_CAPS since 2.6.36 makes it private

0.6.4
- Update packet socket code to print interface
- Fix effective capabilities read from file descriptor
- Use thread ID for capget/set calls

0.6.3
- In netcap and pscap use the effective uid
- In capng_change_id, only retain setpcap if clearing the bounding set

0.6.2
- Make pscap drop capabilities so its not listed in report
- Review prctl calls to make sure we are passing 5 args
- Add package config support

0.6.1
- In netcap, don't complain about missing udp or raw network files
- Adjusted data read in for file based capabilities

0.6
- In netcap, don't complain about missing network files
- Add python bindings
- Add m4 macro file to help developers configure libcap-ng in their apps
- Fake applying bounding set for old OS
- Ignore setpcap for old OS when changing id
- Remove capabilities v1 data handling from reading file attributes
- Set the SECURE_NO_SETUID_FIXUP and LOCKED securebits flags in capng_lock

0.5.1
- Remove unnecessary uid check in change_uid when dropping supplemental groups
- Add credential printout and other improvements to captest
- In the init routine, set hdr.pid to current process
- Use bit mask on effective capabilities check in have_capabilities
- Numeric printing of bounding set bits were in wrong order
- In update function, reverse the order of bounding set vs capabilities
- Revise the tests used to determine if bounding set should be updated

0.5
- If attr/xattr.h is not available disable file system capabilities
- Initialize capng_have_capability with capng_get_caps_process if unknown
- Make capng_change_id drop the gid if given
- Fixed cap_update for bounding set
- Fix have_capability for bounding set
- Added more tests to the make check target
- Remove CAPNG_LOCK_PERMS for change_id flags
- Added captest program

0.4.2
- Fix missing includes for various OS and platforms
- Correct misplaced #ifdef for older OS
- Reorder clearing of bounding set in capng_change_id
- Make locking a noop in capng_change_id for the moment

0.4.1
- spec file clean ups
- Man pages for all library functions

0.4
- Initial public release