Opened 4 weeks ago

Closed 3 weeks ago

#5584 closed enhancement (fixed)

libcap-2.71

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: lfs-book
Priority: normal Milestone: 12.3
Component: Book Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 3 weeks ago

Release notes for 2.71 - 2024-10-25 22:17:54

Reduce the need for CAP_SETPCAP in IAB setting to the specific instances in which the kernel requires it. This addresses Bug 219169 reported by Christopher Head.

Resolve subtle libpsx linker flag issue related to -Bsymbolic-functions.

Add new GPG signing key. At this stage, none of the older keys have been retired. Key details:

$ gpg --fingerprint 0D23D34C577B08C4082CFD76430C5CFF993116B1

pub   ed25519 2024-10-26 [SC]
      0D23 D34C 577B 08C4 082C  FD76 430C 5CFF 9931 16B1
uid           [ultimate] Andrew G. Morgan (2024+ libcap signing key) <morgan@kernel.org>
sub   cv25519 2024-10-26 [E]

Expand use of various $(xFLAGS) to building simple binaries in the build tree.

Numerous documentation updates and clarifications.

Added a programming example to the cap package documentation. Exploring how to embed viewer runnable content in the automatically generated online pkg.go.dev documentation.

Work around a longstanding glibc segfault annoyance for in-build-tree testing.

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 3 weeks ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed at commit a9517d383c :

Update to linux-6.11.6.
Update to libcap-2.71.
Update to setuptools-75.3.0.
Update to flit_core-3.10.0.
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