New release: usbguard-0.6.0

Sep 7, 2016 • Daniel Kopeček

Another milestone behind us. The 0.6.0 release brings the promissed CentOS/RHEL 7 compatibility. This means that our Copr EPEL-7 repository as well as Fedora’s EPEL-7 repository will now provide the latest versions of USBGuard. Check it out!

One more very good piece of news is that USBGuard was accepted in Debian and is available in Sid (unstable). A big thanks goes to Muri Nicanor and others involved in this packaging effort!

Major Changes

Fixed a bug in matching devices against the policy
Switched to protobuf based IPC
Removed dependency on nlohmann/json package
Simplified the IPC and D-Bus interface
Extended the usbguard CLI watch subcommand with the ability to wait for the IPC connection to become available. See the new -w and -o options for details.

Read the full changelog on the release page.

Thanks

Many thanks to the following people for contributions to this release and to the USBGuard project:

Christian Stadelmann

Updating

If you are using Fedora or the USBGuard Copr repository, run:

$ sudo dnf update usbguard

Download

Signed release tarball can be downloaded from the USBGuard release page at GitHub:

SHA256(usbguard-0.6.0.tar.gz)= b19152e2cc5d0d2ec56fce95b84ee2bed8d1f600a1aed04639757eb7282e8c33