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| author | Joachim Fasting <joachifm@fastmail.fm> | 2016-07-12 20:22:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Joachim Fasting <joachifm@fastmail.fm> | 2016-07-23 19:09:47 +0200 |
| commit | edbaba6d3cf84ca86a6fb939ec6099f20c691ed6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c7bb7a3f6d983842d4bb28b1b6d8c067237bcc0 /nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml | |
| parent | 190890cdac51c6be80a1929747c2b6bd9f9ca6cc (diff) | |
nixos release notes: document changes to grsecurity/PaX
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml index be175a54c232..0bea6cbbf2dd 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml @@ -45,9 +45,14 @@ following incompatible changes:</para> <para>Other notable improvements:</para> <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>todo</para> - </listitem> + + <listitem><para>Revamped grsecurity/PaX support. There is now only a single + general-purpose distribution kernel and the configuration interface has been + streamlined. Desktop users should be able to simply set + <programlisting>security.grsecurity.enable = true</programlisting> to get + a reasonably secure system without having to sacrifice too much + functionality. See <xref linkend="sec-grsecurity" /> for documentation + </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> |