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Revision: 1.136
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.136 3.1
4     - port to openssl 1.1 BUT SEE WARNING IN configure.ac. Do not use!
5 root 1.134 - tinc cruft tremoval: remove getopt.[ch], it's less portable to
6     have it then to not have it.
7 root 1.136 - tinc cruft removal: use pkg-config to detect libressl/openssl.
8 root 1.135 - minor cleanups.
9 root 1.134
10 root 1.133 3.0 Thu Nov 10 15:39:58 CET 2016
11 root 1.114 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
12 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
13 root 1.116 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
14 root 1.132 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: gvpectrl -g will now generate a single
15     keypair, while -G will try to generate all keypairs as before.
16 root 1.131 - openssl 1.0.2 is the latest supported openssl release,
17     openssl 1.1.0 is not supported at the moment as the work to
18     make it compatible to both versions is just too much. a switch
19     to openssl 1.1 or another library will be done in a future release.
20 root 1.132 - update examples to not generate keys centrally, but locally on each
21     node.
22 root 1.128 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
23 root 1.114 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
24     could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
25 root 1.126 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
26 root 1.114 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
27     adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
28     forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
29     - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
30     correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
31     - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
32 root 1.120 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
33 root 1.119 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
34 root 1.114 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
35     only missing private keys. private keys are also put
36     into the configured location.
37     - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
38 root 1.124 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
39     openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
40     is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
41     slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
42 root 1.125 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
43 root 1.115 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
44     a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
45     openssl documentation).
46 root 1.116 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
47     and will be merged.
48     - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
49     of the config file.
50     - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
51 root 1.117 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
52 root 1.118 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
53     (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
54 root 1.132 - during rekeying or connection establishments, hmac authentication
55 root 1.119 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
56     authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
57     - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
58 root 1.121 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
59 root 1.127 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
60     gcc's -fsanitize=address.
61 root 1.129 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
62 root 1.130 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
63     to make further changes easier.
64     - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
65 root 1.131 - check for both public and private key file when deciding whether
66     to skip generating a key to avoid accidental overwrites.
67 root 1.116
68 root 1.114 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
69 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
70     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
71     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
72 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
73 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
74 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
75 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
76     function which is now deprecated.
77 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
78 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
79 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
80 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
81     the protocol not being configured locally.
82 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
83     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
84 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
85     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
86 root 1.116 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
87 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
88     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
89 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
90     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
91 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
92     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
93 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
94     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
95 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
96 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
97 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
98 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
99     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
100     but try to recover.
101 root 1.116 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
102 root 1.99 not rely on case.
103     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
104     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
105     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
106     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
107     needless packets.
108     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
109     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
110 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
111     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
112 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
113     doesn't generate them.
114 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
115 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
116 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
117     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
118 root 1.97
119     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
120     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
121 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
122 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
123 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
124 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
125 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
126 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
127 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
128     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
129 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
130 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
131 pcg 1.90
132 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
133 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
134 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
135 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
136 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
137 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
138 pcg 1.85
139 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
140 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
141 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
142     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
143 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
144 pcg 1.84
145 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
146 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
147 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
148     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
149 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
150 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
151 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
152 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
153     new packets arrive for it.
154 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
155 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
156 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
157     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
158     should work).
159 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
160     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
161     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
162     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
163 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
164 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
165 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
166     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
167 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
168     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
169 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
170     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
171 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
172    
173 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
174 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
175 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
176     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
177 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
178 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
179     and throughput.
180     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
181 pcg 1.67
182 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
183 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
184 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
185 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
186     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
187     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
188 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
189 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
190 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
191     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
192     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
193     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
194     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
195 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
196     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
197 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
198 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
199 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
200 pcg 1.56
201 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
202 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
203 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
204     scripts and exits on failure.
205 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
206     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
207     automatically in most configurations.
208 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
209 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
210     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
211 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
212 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
213 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
214 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
215     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
216 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
217     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
218     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
219 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
220     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
221     etc. scripts.
222 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
223     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
224 pcg 1.43
225 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
226 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
227 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
228     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
229 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
230 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
231 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
232     tincd drivers a bit better.
233 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
234     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
235     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
236 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
237     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
238     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
239     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
240 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
241 pcg 1.36
242 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
243 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
244 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
245 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
246 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
247     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
248 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
249 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
250 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
251 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
252 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
253 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
254 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
255 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
256 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
257 pcg 1.22
258 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
259 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
260 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
261     to option and config file parsing.
262 pcg 1.21
263 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
264 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
265     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
266     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
267     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
268     it a little bit more standard c++).
269 pcg 1.19
270 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
271 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
272     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
273     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
274     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
275     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
276     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
277     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
278     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
279     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
280     unnecessary connectivity delays.
281 pcg 1.15
282 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
283 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
284     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
285     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
286     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
287     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
288     remotely POSIX-compatible.
289 pcg 1.11
290 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
291 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
292     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
293     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
294     native/cygwin).
295     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
296     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
297     /* none yet tested */
298     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
299     - very minor bugfixes
300     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
301     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
302     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
303     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
304    
305     1.0 distant past
306     - protocol version 0.1.
307     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
308     machines or nets with many hosts.
309     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
310     connecting through routers (not a fix).
311 pcg 1.2