Release Notes: Support for locking and unlocking group passwords was added to gpasswd. passwd has now support for maintaining credentials with BioAPI. LDAP support for RFC2307bis was added.
Release Notes: This release fixes a off-by-one error in chage and a broken syntax check for chfn. useradd now preserves existing home directories and passwd now allows passwords to be changed even if it does not know about the used NSS service.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug that prevented the use of logging modules other than the syslog plugin.
Release Notes: A possible data lossage in rare cases in usermod was fixed.
Release Notes: This release contains a lot of bugfixes like for useradd -D. libnscd is now used to clear the nscd cache on Linux if an account or group was modified. groupmod and usermod got new options, which allows to remove and add single users from a singe group or list of groups. passwd got a new option to read the password from stdin (for example from a pipe). All daemons and setuid binaries are compiled with -fpie/-pie. Logging is now done with stackable plugins: the administrator can currently choose between syslog, LAuS, and/or the Linux audit interface.
Release Notes: This release fixes some problems with parsing SLP URLs and fixes the compilation without SELinux support. The sg command was added.
Release Notes: This release contains a lot of bug and compatibility fixes.
Release Notes: This release adds /etc/default/passwd, SLP support for rpasswd/rpasswdd, and a rpasswd PAM module. Allowed account names are now configurable with a regex expression. For shadow compatibility, the -f option for groupadd was added.
Release Notes: This release contains some minor changes to compile with older GCC versions, and some new manual pages.
Release Notes: This release includes experimentell versions of pwconv, pwunconv, grpunconv, pwck, grpck, and newgrp.