[Dazuko-devel] 2.0.5 released

[John Ogness]

Hi,

Dazuko 2.0.5 has finally been released. The big changes from 2.0.4 are 
mostly the support for Linux 2.6. An enormous amount of work was done to 
detect and support the many variations of the LSM API in distributions. 
There were also improvements on file access detection under Linux 2.2/2.4.

2.0.5 is the last release in the 2.0.x series. I am now devoting all my 
time to the 2.1.0 release. Upcoming features include:
  - greatly improved on_close support (faster AND better)
  - eliminating all memory-leak/slowdown problems using on_close
  - separate access_mask/include/exclude settings for groups
  - extended Dazuko interface for caching support
  - a new "trusted application" framework
  - a cross-platform (XP) layer on the userspace side
  - ruby and lua implementations of the Dazuko interface

I was originally hoping to get DazukoFS included for the 2.1.0 version, 
but this is no longer realistic. DazukoFS is now planned for 2.2.0. 
However, pre-releases of 2.2.0 will start showing up very soon because 
this is a major change in how Dazuko works and I think it will take 
quite a while to get it working right. The new architectural changes in 
Dazuko that will be present in 2.1.0 are moving towards a DazukoFS 
mentality. This means that the 2.1.x series will not only introduce many 
useful and important features, but is also making a transition to a 
VFS-based access-detection architecture.

On a side note, I had an accident last Friday while riding my bicycle to 
work. I seemed to have torn something in my right shoulder, which has 
made using a computer quite difficult. This has already caused some 
delays in Dazuko's development that I wanted to get finished last 
weekend. Hopefully I will soon be able to return to my programming schedule.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer