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+== Busy weeks at RSBAC ==
+//Tuesday, 07/Jul/2026//
+You might have noticed that during the last weeks RSBAC activity has been much higher than usual. Triggered and rechecked by several AI reports as well as some human bug reports and tests, I have been able to squash quite a few bugs, extend RSBAC coverage over some more system calls and improve the infrastructure.
+Over all, I am pretty pleased with the results: even better stability, more coverage, improved infrastructure through oursourcing of Web Git access to GitHub and Launchpad with much lower load at rsbac.org, more visibility at search engines etc.
+Please give RSBAC another try and report your results to the list, all feedback is appreciated. If you like it, tell others! 🙂
+== RSBAC Git Web access both at GitHub and Launchpad ==
+//Sunday, 28/Jun/2026//
+Git Web access is now both at [[https://git.rsbac.org?provider=github|GitHub]] and [[https://git.rsbac.org?provider=launchpad|Launchpad]]
+== RSBAC Git Web access moved to GitHub ==
+//Sunday, 14/Jun/2026//
+Due to permanent overload of the rsbac.org server with local Gitweb, I have created shadow repositories at Github. All accesses to https://git.rsbac.org get redirected to the corresponding Github URLs. The Git server at git.rsbac.org remains available and is still the main resource for the latest code.
+== RSBAC stable with kernel 6.18 ==
+//Thursday, 15/Jan/2026//
+After a few more bugfixes and weeks of tests with some real work load and some production use, 6.18 leaves a very good impression on our systems. RSBAC with 6.18 is the recommended version now.
+== RSBAC for kernel 6.18 ==
+//Wednesday, 17/Dec/2025//
+RSBAC has been ported successfully to the new LTS kernel 6.18.
+In my tests, 6.18 works fine. Please give it a try and report. Patches are at https://download.rsbac.org/latestdiff/6.18/
+In 6.18 I removed the RSBAC secure delete support. It has not been maintained or well tested for a while and can make trouble in various filesystems. With journaled file systems like ext4 it makes litte sense anyway. This removal is going to be backported into older kernels soon.
+== RSBAC stable with kernel 6.12 ==
+//Friday, 24/Jan/2025//
+After many tests, local production use and some more bugfixes I now recommend using RSBAC with kernel 6.12.
+== RSBAC for kernel 6.12 ==
+//Monday, 16/Dec/2024//
+RSBAC has been ported successfully to the new LTS kernel 6.12.
+In my tests, 6.12 works fine. Please give it a try and report. Patches are at https://download.rsbac.org/latestdiff/6.12/
+== New request types GET_XATTR and MODIFY_XATTR on FD targets ==
+//Tuesday, 29/Oct/2024//
+The system call families getxattr() and setxattr() used to be intercepted with requests GET_PERMISSIONS_DATA and MODIFY_PERMISSIONS_DATA. Since extended attributes do much more than Linux access control with ACLs, we needed a way to distinguish these types of access.
+I decided to introduce the new request types GET_XATTR and MODIFY_XATTR for them, valid for all FD targets. The changes are in the kernel Git repos for 6.6, 6.1, 5.15 and 5.10 as well as in the rsbac-admin repo for administration. Older kernels remain unchanged.
+== RSBAC stable with kernel 6.6 ==
+//Wednesday, 26/Jun/2024//
+RSBAC with kernel 6.6 is now recommended. It has been running very well for months.
+== RSBAC for kernel 6.6 ==
+//Thursday, 11/Jan/2024//
+RSBAC has been ported successfully to LTS kernel 6.6. Internal kernel changes to the Linux caps structure required new on-disk versions of all RSBAC lists holding cap vectors.
+I took the chance to default CONFIG_RSBAC_MOVETO to yes with 6.6 and auto-adjust RC and ACL FD lists with new versions, too. Existing WRITE right to FD targets gets amended with MOVETO during list upgrade to avoid unexpected behaviour.
+The automatic list version upgrades mean that going back to previous kernels might show invalid lists, you need to boot with rsbac_list_recover kernel parameter and set cap related and RC and ACL FD values again.
+In my tests, 6.6 seems to be running pretty well, please give it a try and report. Patches are at https://download.rsbac.org/latestdiff/6.6/
+== RSBAC very stable with kernel 6.1 ==
+//Wednesday, 04/Oct/2023//
+Hi folks,
+just a quick note that kernel 6.1 has been running very well with RSBAC for months now, I recommend switching to 6.1.
+As usual, you get all the code at https://download.rsbac.org/latestdiff/ or through Git at git.rsbac.org/, e.g. git.rsbac.org/linux-6.1.y
+== RSBAC 1.5.6 for kernel 6.1 ==
+//Wednesday, 15/Feb/2023//
+Hi folks,
+RSBAC has been ported to kernel 6.1 at 5.15 state. Seems to be running fine on my test system, but please test yourself and report to the mailing list or to the bug tracker.
+You get all the code at https://download.rsbac.org/latestdiff/ or through Git at git.rsbac.org/, e.g. git.rsbac.org/linux-6.1.y
+RSBAC has been running very well with kernel series 5.10 for a long time, so please consider 5.10 to be the best choice for now.
 == RSBAC 1.5.6 for kernel 5.15 ==
 //Tuesday, 09/Nov/2021//

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