4 Release_Notes_4.0 beta2
John Johansen edited this page 2024-03-07 03:25:28 +00:00

WARNING this is a beta - NOT a final release

AppArmor 4.0-beta2 was released 2024-03-06.

Introduction

AppArmor 4.0 is a major new release of the AppArmor that is in development, these are not complete release notes of everything in beta2 but just highlighting new or important developments

Apprmor 4.0 is a bridge release between older AppArmor 3.x policy and the newer AppArmor 4 style policy which introduces several new features that are not backwards compatible. As such AppArmor 4.0 will be a short lived release, and will not receive long term support. The following AppArmor 4.1 feature release is planned to be a regular release, please take this into account when including AppArmor 4.0 into a distro release. For questions around compatibility see the compatibility matrix.

These release notes cover changes between AppArmor-4.0~beta1 and AppArmor-4.0~beta2

Notes

  • new dependency build dependency ** autoconf-archive **

This Release contains only Bug Fixes to AppArmor 4.0 beta1

Misc

  • Some features will work with older kernels but many of the features in apparmor 4 with require a development kernel.
  • The kernel portion of the project is maintained and pushed separately.
  • AppArmor 4.0 contains all bug fixes and policy updates from apparmor 3.1
  • Some new features will not be fully supported in some utilities. In these cases it was decided that releasing a new feature earlier had more benefit than delaying it for full utility support. Please see the feature support matrix.

Features

libraries

  • check if AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG is available (MR:1174)

policy compiler (aka apparmor_parser)

  • fix policy generation for non-af_inet rules (MR:1175)

Utils

  • fix coding style in mount rules (MR:1173)
  • change string to r-string to avoid warning (MR:1172)
  • Remove unnecessary variable source_is_path in mount rules (MR:1172)
  • check for unknown fstype and options keywords, and fix issues uncovered by that (MR:1169)
  • Fix writing 'mount {options,fstype} in ...' rules and make error check more readable (MR:1168)
  • Add useful error message in test-mount.py (MR:1166)
  • Fix typo in 'btrfs', and add '9p' filesystem (MR:1164)

Documentation

  • Update ancient paths in apparmor and apparmor.d manpage to correct paths (MR:1171)
  • Update mailinglist and homepage to correct addresses in changehat READMEs (MR:1170)