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1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.106 TODO: bridge mode, finally?
4    
5 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
6     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
7     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
8 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
9 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
10 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
11     function which is now deprecated.
12     - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
13 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
14 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
15     the protocol not being configured locally.
16 root 1.107 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
17 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
18     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
19 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
20     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
21 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
22     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
23 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
24     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
25 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
26     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
27 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
28 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
29 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
30 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
31     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
32     but try to recover.
33     - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do
34     not rely on case.
35     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
36     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
37     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
38     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
39     needless packets.
40     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
41     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
42 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
43     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
44 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
45     doesn't generate them.
46 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
47 root 1.97
48     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
49     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
50 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
51 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
52 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
53 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
54 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
55 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
56 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
57     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
58 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
59 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
60 pcg 1.90
61 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
62 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
63 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
64 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
65 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
66 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
67 pcg 1.85
68 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
69 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
70 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
71     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
72 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
73 pcg 1.84
74 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
75 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
76 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
77     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
78 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
79 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
80 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
81 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
82     new packets arrive for it.
83 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
84 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
85 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
86     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
87     should work).
88 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
89     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
90     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
91     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
92 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
93 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
94 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
95     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
96 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
97     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
98 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
99     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
100 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
101 root 1.111 - autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
102 pcg 1.71
103 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
104 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
105 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
106     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
107 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
108 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
109     and throughput.
110     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
111 pcg 1.67
112 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
113 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
114 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
115 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
116     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
117     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
118 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
119 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
120 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
121     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
122     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
123     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
124     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
125 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
126     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
127 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
128 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
129 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
130 pcg 1.56
131 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
132 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
133 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
134     scripts and exits on failure.
135 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
136     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
137     automatically in most configurations.
138 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
139 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
140     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
141 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
142 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
143 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
144 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
145     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
146 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
147     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
148     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
149 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
150     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
151     etc. scripts.
152 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
153     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
154 pcg 1.43
155 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
156 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
157 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
158     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
159 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
160 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
161 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
162     tincd drivers a bit better.
163 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
164     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
165     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
166 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
167     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
168     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
169     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
170 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
171 pcg 1.36
172 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
173 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
174 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
175 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
176 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
177     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
178 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
179 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
180 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
181 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
182 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
183 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
184 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
185 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
186 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
187 pcg 1.22
188 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
189 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
190 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
191     to option and config file parsing.
192 pcg 1.21
193 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
194 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
195     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
196     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
197     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
198     it a little bit more standard c++).
199 pcg 1.19
200 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
201 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
202     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
203     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
204     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
205     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
206     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
207     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
208     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
209     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
210     unnecessary connectivity delays.
211 pcg 1.15
212 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
213 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
214     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
215     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
216     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
217     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
218     remotely POSIX-compatible.
219 pcg 1.11
220 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
221 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
222     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
223     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
224     native/cygwin).
225     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
226     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
227     /* none yet tested */
228     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
229     - very minor bugfixes
230     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
231     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
232     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
233     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
234    
235     1.0 distant past
236     - protocol version 0.1.
237     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
238     machines or nets with many hosts.
239     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
240     connecting through routers (not a fix).
241 pcg 1.2