libcap-2.36

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Pierre Labastie]

Now 2.36

[Douglas R. Reno]

Release notes for 2.36
posted 14 hours ago by Andrew G. Morgan

    Bugs fixed in this release:
        Another capability has been allocated in the kernel (CAP_PERFMON)
    Cleaned up the CHANGELOG to point to current info.

Release notes for 2.35
posted 15 hours ago by Andrew G. Morgan   [ updated 14 hours ago ]

    Bugs filed against this release:
        CAP_PERFMON was named before this release was made: (Bug) - fixed in 2,36

    Better support for cross-compilation from Christian Kastner @ debian
    pam_cap now honors PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED credit to Daniel Gröber and Christian Kastner @ debian for submitting fix
    Typo fixes and syntax fixes for man pages from Christian Kastner @ debian
    Lint style fixes to C and Go sources courtesy of Google.
    The latest incarnation of the golang patch to support posix semantics syscalls in native Go renamed the new APIs again so, PerOSThreadSyscall*() is now AllThreadsSyscall*() in the libcap/cap package. Follow along here:
        https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/210639/
        [In passing, also note that the CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW build environment flag is no longer needed at HEAD for the golang compiler to correctly link libpsx into the libcap/psx package:
            https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39361 ]
    Work around a glibc bug in the tests:
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1842745
    Remove last implicit requirement that libpsx is needed by libcap
        https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208021
    Some markdown experiments for the documentation

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at r11895

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed