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Revision: 1.113
Committed: Sat Jul 13 04:24:44 2013 UTC (10 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-2_25
Changes since 1.112: +3 -1 lines
Log Message:
gplv3

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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.106 TODO: bridge mode, finally?
4 root 1.112 TODO: gcm mode?
5     TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash.
6     TODO: increase rsa size.
7 root 1.106
8 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
9     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
10     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
11 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
12 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
13 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
14 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
15     function which is now deprecated.
16 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
17 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
18 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
19 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
20     the protocol not being configured locally.
21 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
22     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
23 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
24     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
25     and to configure a regular imterval to reseed the rng.
26 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
27     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
28 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
29     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
30 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
31     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
32 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
33     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
34 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
35 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
36 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
37 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
38     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
39     but try to recover.
40     - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do
41     not rely on case.
42     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
43     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
44     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
45     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
46     needless packets.
47     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
48     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
49 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
50     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
51 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
52     doesn't generate them.
53 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
54 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
55 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
56     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
57 root 1.97
58     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
59     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
60 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
61 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
62 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
63 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
64 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
65 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
66 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
67     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
68 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
69 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
70 pcg 1.90
71 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
72 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
73 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
74 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
75 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
76 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
77 pcg 1.85
78 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
79 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
80 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
81     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
82 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
83 pcg 1.84
84 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
85 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
86 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
87     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
88 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
89 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
90 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
91 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
92     new packets arrive for it.
93 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
94 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
95 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
96     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
97     should work).
98 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
99     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
100     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
101     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
102 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
103 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
104 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
105     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
106 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
107     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
108 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
109     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
110 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
111    
112 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
113 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
114 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
115     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
116 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
117 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
118     and throughput.
119     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
120 pcg 1.67
121 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
122 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
123 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
124 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
125     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
126     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
127 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
128 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
129 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
130     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
131     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
132     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
133     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
134 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
135     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
136 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
137 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
138 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
139 pcg 1.56
140 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
141 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
142 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
143     scripts and exits on failure.
144 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
145     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
146     automatically in most configurations.
147 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
148 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
149     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
150 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
151 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
152 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
153 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
154     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
155 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
156     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
157     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
158 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
159     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
160     etc. scripts.
161 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
162     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
163 pcg 1.43
164 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
165 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
166 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
167     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
168 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
169 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
170 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
171     tincd drivers a bit better.
172 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
173     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
174     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
175 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
176     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
177     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
178     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
179 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
180 pcg 1.36
181 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
182 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
183 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
184 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
185 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
186     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
187 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
188 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
189 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
190 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
191 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
192 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
193 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
194 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
195 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
196 pcg 1.22
197 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
198 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
199 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
200     to option and config file parsing.
201 pcg 1.21
202 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
203 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
204     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
205     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
206     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
207     it a little bit more standard c++).
208 pcg 1.19
209 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
210 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
211     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
212     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
213     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
214     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
215     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
216     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
217     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
218     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
219     unnecessary connectivity delays.
220 pcg 1.15
221 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
222 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
223     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
224     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
225     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
226     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
227     remotely POSIX-compatible.
228 pcg 1.11
229 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
230 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
231     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
232     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
233     native/cygwin).
234     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
235     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
236     /* none yet tested */
237     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
238     - very minor bugfixes
239     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
240     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
241     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
242     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
243    
244     1.0 distant past
245     - protocol version 0.1.
246     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
247     machines or nets with many hosts.
248     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
249     connecting through routers (not a fix).
250 pcg 1.2