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@(#)$Id: NEWS,v 1.20 1999/12/22 09:29:10 karls Exp $

(NOTE: The contents of this file is only updated for releases.)

***  Monday, Sep 27, 1999 -- Dante v1.1

 o Obscure bug on osf causing problems for /usr/bin/ftp fixed.

 o new command for socks-rules added: "udpreply".  This is analogous to
   the "bindreply" command and replaces the old way of saying what
   addresses udppacket "replies" shall be allowed from.

 o starting the server with debugging on will automatically enable more
   logging rather than requiring user to set it manually for each rule.

 o misc minor fixes; more consistent and correct logoutput,
   handle more temporary errors, some bugs fixed too.

 o fixed some of the finer details of the main i/o loop.

 o pretend Rgetsockname() works on udp sockets; might help some programs.

 o tuned some things for better i/o performance though also greater
   resource usage.

 o better support for profiling.

 o The name and location of the configuration files can now be
   changed via arguments to ./configure too.
   Requested by Albert Chin-A-Young ([e-mail]).

 o Problems with glibc-2.1 diagnosed. See the FAQ for details.

 o libtool-1.3.3

 o Building of dlib/interposition.c cleaned up.

 o try to throttle childcreation if it looks like there is a problem.
   Suggested by Robert Loomans ([e-mail]).

 o added a new method: "rfc931"; matches users against rfc931/ident
   lookup.  Requested by Per Hedeland ([e-mail]).

 o added a new keyword: "user:"; limits the acceptable users on
   a rule-by-rule basis.

 o rewrote addressmatch().  This sort of reverses the logic and is
   also no longer recursive.  Much Thanks to Per Hedeland
   ([e-mail]) for pointing out some problems here and
   helping with making this hopefully more correct.  Any mistakes
   are obviously our own.

 o SIGINFO signal is now broadcast to children too.

 o always set default socks serverport so server doesn't complain if
   using default on sighup; Fix from Per Hedeland ([e-mail]).

 o make server write out correct pid when started with -D.
   Problem reported by Per Hedeland ([e-mail]).

 o depending on how one configured the userid's used by the server,
   it could sometimes fail.
   Problem described by Per Hedeland ([e-mail]).

***  Monday, Jun 7, 1999 -- Dante v1.0.1

 o fixes bug preventing "iotimeout" variable in sockd.conf from
   working correctly.

 o minor improvements to sockd.conf.5 manpage.

***  Monday, May 31, 1999 -- Dante v1.0.0

 o support for sun/dec/sgi cc.

 o osf4.0a port.  Thanks to Jay Weber ([e-mail]) for help
   with the port and an account to test it on.

 o Set subnegotiationversion in username method correctly.  Thanks to
   Marc Haber ([e-mail]) and Olaf Titz ([e-mail]).

 o Caches resolved hostnames/addresses.  Problem of not having it
   first brought up by Devin Nate ([e-mail]), thanks.
   Several new variables were added to config.h for tuning the cache.

 o srchost flags settable in configfile, see sockd.conf(8) for more info.

 o Addressmatching much improved and should now be "complete".

 o libtool-1.3

 o Try to locate newest libc on linux, allow manual specification
   in worst case.

 o irix 6.2 port.

 o Update to autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4.

 o New keyword in client configfile: "resolveprotocol".  Must
   be set to "fake" on clients that can not resolve hostnames.

 o Support resolving hostnames for socks v4 clients too (requires
   the Dante client but should work with any socks server).

 o Compilation problems on Solaris 7 fixed.  Reported by and fixed
   with the help of Stephen C. Hailey <[e-mail]>.

 o Library conflict on linux systems with several libc versions
   (gnu/non-gnu?) resolved, reported by
   Martin Piskernig <[e-mail]>.

 o Configparsing reworked, should no longer care much about the order
   of things.

 o The library with dlopen should be correctly found for socksify.

 o Let user know if we failed due to authentication on at msproxy
   server.

 o "protocolversion" renamed to "proxyprotocol" in clientconfig,
   also changed the value names.

 o version in reply for socksv4 is not same as in request, reported
   by Stefan Reiner ([e-mail]).

 o added experimental support for msproxy v2, supports tcp.

 o better support for clients that can't resolve hostnames.

 o nonblocking connects have a chance of working on linux too now.

***  Monday, December 14, 1998 -- Dante v0.91.1.

 o  a nasty typo.

***  Monday, December 14, 1998 -- Dante v0.91.0.

 o  all reported bugs and compilation problems fixed.

 o  much improved UDP support, using calls other than sendto()/recvfrom()
    on UDP sockets should now work.

 o  spread SO_KEEPALIVE to all appropriate sockets, added option
    "-n" to switch SO_KEEPALIVE off.  Old "-n" became "-N".

 o  nonblocking connect stuff redesigned, should now handle all cases
    and also makes ftp client in lynx work.

 o  more documentation available.

 o  --enable-diagnostic option added to configure

 o  cache's username/password, does not prompt twice.

 o  Server is no longer tested on Solaris 2.5.1, we have switched
    to 2.6 due to all the 2.5.1 specific problems.  Much of the bandaid
    necessary for Solaris 2.5.1 is still present in this version but
    will probably be removed in next version.

 o  Socksify program now also works on SunOS and Linux.

***  Monday, November 16, 1998 -- Dante v0.90.0.

 o  A socks client and server implementation for UNIX.