2.1.0-pre4 posted

Hi,

Pre-release version 2.1.0-pre4 has been posted. This version includes 
many new features and extensions. Most notably are:
- support for 64-bit kernels with 32-bit applications
- support for trusting related processes in the trusted application 
framework
- daemons may call exec without generating events for their own group

All features for the 2.1.0 release have now been established. I will 
using the next few weeks to "spread out" the features. For example, the 
new extensions to the trusted application framework have only been 
implemented for Linux 2.2/2.4. Moving these features over to the other 
platforms will be fairly simple, since most of the work has been 
implemented in the core. I hope to be able to release 2.1.0 sometime in 
June.

I have also begun work with DazukoFS using FiST. I have successfully 
created a proof of concept (exactly like the one I had in August 2004) 
but using Linux 2.6 instead of FreeBSD. As suspected, the FiST project 
would not work with current kernels. I was able to fix this, but there 
are some other bugs in FiST that are causing problems. DazukoFS is 
planned for Dazuko 2.2.0 with pre-releases showing up this summer. Our 
first main goal is to get Dazuko for Linux 2.6 away from LSM. The other 
platforms are not as urgent because Dazuko works so well with the system 
call table. However, it is our intention to eventuallly move all 
platforms to a DazukoFS base.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer