2011-05-05: rra-c-util 3.4
This is a minor bug fix release. There was a lingering problem in the
previous release when probing for Heimdal GSS-API on OpenBSD that should
now be really fixed, various compilation warnings from GCC 4.6.1's new
unused variable detection have been cleaned up, and the warning flags have
been updated for GCC 4.6.1. This release also adds casts to the pam-util
library in some places that would be needed for -Wconversion, but alas
that flag is still not usable due to its mishandling of the system header
htons macro.
You can get the latest release from the rra-c-util distribution page.
2011-05-11: WebAuth 3.7.4
The initial goal of this release was to get some bug fixes out the door so
that we could use the release as the basis for upcoming multifactor
authentication work. But I'd promised to look at a few other things "for
the next release," so there was more in here than I was expecting.
The major new feature is support for optional authentication (also known
as "lazy sessions" or "passive authentication." This allows one to
designate some web pages as optionally authenticated. If an
authentication cookie exists, WebAuth will put the authenticated identity
in the environment as normal. If the user is not already authenticated,
WebAuth will do nothing and still allow access. The authentication status
can then be checked by dynamic content and the user offered a login link
if they desire.
Also in this release is a workaround for an MIT Kerberos client library
bug in the password change code in WebLogin, a compatibility fix with new
versions of libwww-perl around certificate verification in WebLogin,
compilation fixes with Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise 5, and other,
more minor bug fixes.
You can get the latest version from the official WebAuth pages or from my
WebAuth distribution page.
2011-05-11: spin 1.77
This is a fairly minor bug fix release. The \image command was always
attempting to size the image with Image::Size to produce width and height
attributes, but Image::Size of course requires a path and the argument to
\image may be a URL. Now, spin checks whether the file exists first and
does not attempt to size the image if it's not found, avoiding undefined
warnings from the latest version of Perl.
This isn't a great solution. I really want to find a way of sizing even
images that are specified with non-relative URLs, perhaps by calculating
the file location based on a base URL. But I don't have time to work on
something better at the moment.
You can get the latest version from my web
tools distribution page.
2011-05-19: git-pbuilder 1.20
I've been sadly neglecting this script, but tonight I finally found some
time to catch up on all the suggestions and bug reports that Guido Günther
has been letting me know about (and I greatly appreciate that!). This
version merges in all the good ideas people have had.
This version removes the -i and -I flags passed to dpkg-source when the
package format is 3.0, since with 3.0 packages, dpkg-source both already
ignores Git files by default and ignores various other things that were
not included in the pattern. It also offers much better configuration
methods for the ignore patterns, which git-pbuilder was overriding. So
that's all skipped now for 3.0 packages. git-pbuilder still passes in the
ignore flags for 1.0 packages, since they don't ignore Git files by
default.
The environment variable BUILDER can now be set to choose the builder,
which is still cowbuilder by default. The other supported option is
qemubuilder, and for it git-pbuilder selects an appropriate configuration
file.
Additional flags for the builder can be set in the GIT_PBUILDER_OPTIONS
environment variable and will be passed along.
There are also a few more minor fixes: better documentation, always
printing out what we're doing at the start of a run, and preserving the
exit status of pdebuild and exiting with the same status.
These changes are based on work by Guido Günther, Yaroslav Halchenko, and
Benoît Knecht.
You can get the latest version from my scripts page.
2011-05-31: rra-c-util 3.5
This release has fixes and improvements to the network portability
library.
Sockets bound to IPv6 addresses other than any local address now use
IP_FREEBIND when possible to allow binding to unconfigured addresses.
This is more useful in the IPv6 world, since IPv6 autoconfiguration means
that addresses may not always be available.
There's a new network_accept_any() function that waits for an incoming
connection on any of an array of sockets and returns the first accepted
connection. This is useful in simplifying applications that may bind to
multiple local addresses.
The portable/getaddrinfo test is now skipped on systems where invalid
hostnames still resolve, which appears to have been the cause of one build
failure on one of the Debian buildds.
Finally, the TAP support library for doing remctl tests now allows one to
pass in additional arguments to remctld after the default set.
You can get the latest version from the rra-c-util distribution page.
2011-05-31: remctl 2.17
This release mostly collects a bunch of various bug fixes and build
improvements. It also adds some additional functionality, particularly
around IPv6, for the remctld server in stand-alone mode.
The remctld server now supports a -b option to set the local bind address,
which may be given multiple times to bind to multiple local addresses. It
also binds to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by default, instead of only
IPv4 as it previously did.
The remctl client library also installs a pkg-config configuration file
for the use of software that wants to link against it.
This release includes fixes for the return object constructed in the
simple Python bindings, the Windows build system, GCC attribute markers
for non-GCC compilers, and symbol versioning and export symbol lists on
non-Linux platforms. It sets the PHP PECL extension test suite to be
noninteractive so that the user is never prompted to send results to the
PHP QA group. It also updates the support infrastructure to the latest
rra-c-util and
C TAP Harness.
You can get the latest release from the remctl distribution page.
2011-05-31: remctl 2.18
A combination of a slightly inadequate test suite and getting unlucky with
my test compiles led to releasing 2.17 with an uninitialized variable in
the standalone server code. If one's compile happened not to put a useful
value in that variable, all incoming connections would be rejected. This
release fixes that bug and adds more testing.
You can get the latest release from the remctl distribution page.
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