Version 1.19 "Anxious Albert" (5th May 2008)
Main page: PlashRelease1.19
Story6: Integrate PlashGlibc with glibc's build process.
- Various fixes to the FD forwarding that was introduced in the previous release.
Version 1.18 (5th June 2007)
Main page: PlashRelease1.18
Fixed security vulnerability relating to granting access to terminal.
New feature: Package system for running programs from Debian packages in sandboxes.
Version 1.17 (23rd December 2006)
Add Python bindings for Plash object interface. Add cow_dir (layered/copy-on-write directories). Add -e option to pola-run. Update to build with glibc 2.3.6, 2.4 and 2.5. Improved Debian packaging.
Version 1.16 (15th March 2006)
Rewrite Powerbox for Gtk: now inherits from GtkDialog and so works with more applications. Overhauled documentation and build/install process.
Version 1.15 (12th December 2005)
Added Powerbox for Gtk. Fixes to allow Konqueror and Gnumeric to run.
Version 1.14 (9th November 2005)
Added powerboxes.
Version 1.13 (6th October 2005)
Much-improved build system.
Version 1.12 (19th September 2005)
Initial version of pola-run. Fixed gc-uid-locks race conditions. Include libm.so etc. in packages.
Version 1.11 (13th August 2005)
Major new feature: Add plash-run-emacs tool. Made changes so that it's safer to run the shell as root. Documentation has been improved, and converted to DocBook format.
Version 1.10 (20th July 2005)
Implemented fchdir(). "rm -r", "install -d" and "mkdir -p" now work.
Version 1.9 (10th July 2005)
Changed implementation of file namespace construction. Now possible to add/replace entries in existing directories (without modifying the directory).
Version 1.8 (22nd May 2005)
Overhauled build system for modified glibc. Add option for granting access to the X11 Window System (off by default). New mechanism for setting shell options. Added limited support for directory file descriptors, so that XEmacs works.
Version 1.7 (1st May 2005)
Major new feature: executable objects.
Version 1.6 (18th January 2005)
New argument syntax: "PATHNAME = EXPR", allowing objects to be attached anywhere in the file namespace.
Version 1.5 (7th January 2005)
Add recursive read-only directories. Add example "chroot" program: first tool to use object-capability protocol.
Version 1.4 (4th January 2005)
Implemented object-capability protocol. This is used as an additional layer in the communication between client and server.
Version 1.3 (29th December 2004)
Better security: runs processes under dynamically-allocated user IDs rather than the user "nobody". Add globbing and file descriptor redirection to the shell. Implemented bind(), symlink(), utime(), rename() and link().
Version 1.2 (18th December 2004)
Fixed open64() and libpthread.so. Implemented pipes in the shell. Added "!!" syntax to shell. Added support for "#!" scripts. Added options window for enabling logging.
Version 1.1 (10th December 2004)
Added job control to shell.
Version 1.0 (7th December 2004)
First version.