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15. By Julian Taylor on 2012-04-30

* SECURITY UPDATE: local privilege escalation (LP: #979221)
  - debian/patches/23-fix_local_privilege_escalation.patch: sanitize
    config properties. Thanks to David Paleino <email address hidden>
  - CVE-2012-2095
* SECURITY UPDATE: information leak in log files (LP: #992177)
  - debian/patches/24-mask-sensitive-info-from-log.patch: mask sensitive
    information in logs. Thanks to David Paleino <email address hidden>
  - CVE-2012-0813

14. By David Paleino on 2010-03-05

Fix RC bug: daemon doesn't start anymore because copy.deepcopy()
fails with the iniparse object, coming from 20-use_iniparse.patch.
Bug 568326 reopened. (Closes: #572599)

13. By David Paleino on 2010-01-17

* debian/rules:
  - pass --install-layout=deb to python setup.py install
    (Closes: #565536)
* debian/control:
  - break circular dependency, make wicd-daemon only Recommend the
    clients. (Closes: #565608)

12. By David Paleino on 2009-12-05

* debian/control:
  - updated my email address
  - DMUA removed
* debian/config: add --quiet to adduser, don't show messages if
  user is already in netdev (Closes: #556182)
* debian/patches/:
  - 07-workaround_urwid_API_change.patch added, handle API change
    between python-urwid 0.9.8.4 and python-urwid 0.9.9
    (Closes: #557462)
  - 08-fix_help_message.patch added, fix minor issue with help
    message of wicd-curses
  - 09-allow_empty_DNS.patch added, one might run a local
    forwarder and 127.0.0.1 wouldn't work (Closes: #552598)
  - 10-order_scripts_directories.patch added, scripts were run
    in a random order (python's os.listdir())
  - 11-fix_gui_showing_from_tray.patch added, raises the GUI
    also when it was trayed in an iconified state (Closes: #549625)
* debian/links removed, debian/manpages added (Closes: #557173)

11. By David Paleino on 2009-11-07

* debian/po/ja.po updated (Closes: #554838)
* debian/patches/06-dont_bomb_out_on_configparser_error.patch added
  (Closes: #554949)

10. By David Paleino on 2009-10-26

* debian/po/ja.po added, thanks to Hideki Yamane (Closes: #546231)
* debian/control:
  - remove Conflict on network-manager, since both can be used at
    the same time, provided they don't try to control the same
    interface (Closes: #548978)
  - added dependency on dbus (Closes: #540331, #551605)
* debian/patches/05-use_binsh.patch added (Closes: #549443)

9. By Colin Watson on 2009-09-04

Configure with --no-install-acpi, removing acpi-support integration.
We've used pm-utils for some time now (LP: #366119).

8. By David Paleino on 2009-06-22

* debian/config, debian/templates updated:
  - only show users to add to netdev, skip those who are already
    members (Closes: #534138)
  - gracefully handle upgrades from previous broken versions, where
    debconf set a value of ${default} for wicd/users
    (Closes: #532112)

7. By David Paleino on 2009-03-16

* debian/patches/:
  - 08-fix_GetIP.patch added, thanks to Giuseppe Martino
    (Closes: #519433)
  - 09-fix_wire_plugging_detection.patch, added, thanks to Giuseppe
    Martino (Closes: #503738)
* debian/control:
  - Standards-Version bumped to 3.8.1:
    + debian/init fixed, /var/run/wicd created on init.d script
    start, since /var/run may be mounted as a temporary filesystem
    (§9.3.2)

6. By David Paleino on 2009-02-08

* New upstream release:
  - Fixed security hole in DBus configuration file
  - Fixed the TTLS template
* debian/patches/:
  - 05-fix_DBus_policy.patch added, allow only members of the netdev
    group to configure wicd (Closes: #512160)
* debian/postinst: add group "netdev", which will be the only one able
  to configure wicd
* debian/control: added dependency on adduser
* debian/NEWS.Debian and debian/docs added, explain the new permissions
  policy