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Revision: 1.139
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1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.139 - update embedded liblzf.
4     - use liblzf with static hash table: lowers stack usage.
5     - do not initialise liblzf hash table for faster operation.
6     - use C++ variadic templates for callback.h, get rid of callback.pl.
7 root 1.138
8 root 1.137 3.1 Sat Oct 27 07:50:43 CEST 2018
9 root 1.136 - port to openssl 1.1 BUT SEE WARNING IN configure.ac. Do not use!
10 root 1.138 - tinc cruft removal: remove getopt.[ch], it's less portable to
11 root 1.134 have it then to not have it.
12 root 1.136 - tinc cruft removal: use pkg-config to detect libressl/openssl.
13 root 1.135 - minor cleanups.
14 root 1.134
15 root 1.133 3.0 Thu Nov 10 15:39:58 CET 2016
16 root 1.114 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
17 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
18 root 1.116 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
19 root 1.132 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: gvpectrl -g will now generate a single
20     keypair, while -G will try to generate all keypairs as before.
21 root 1.131 - openssl 1.0.2 is the latest supported openssl release,
22     openssl 1.1.0 is not supported at the moment as the work to
23     make it compatible to both versions is just too much. a switch
24     to openssl 1.1 or another library will be done in a future release.
25 root 1.132 - update examples to not generate keys centrally, but locally on each
26     node.
27 root 1.128 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
28 root 1.114 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
29     could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
30 root 1.126 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
31 root 1.114 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
32     adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
33     forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
34     - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
35     correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
36     - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
37 root 1.120 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
38 root 1.119 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
39 root 1.114 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
40     only missing private keys. private keys are also put
41     into the configured location.
42     - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
43 root 1.124 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
44     openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
45     is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
46     slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
47 root 1.125 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
48 root 1.115 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
49     a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
50     openssl documentation).
51 root 1.116 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
52     and will be merged.
53     - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
54     of the config file.
55     - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
56 root 1.117 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
57 root 1.118 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
58     (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
59 root 1.132 - during rekeying or connection establishments, hmac authentication
60 root 1.119 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
61     authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
62     - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
63 root 1.121 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
64 root 1.127 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
65     gcc's -fsanitize=address.
66 root 1.129 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
67 root 1.130 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
68     to make further changes easier.
69     - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
70 root 1.131 - check for both public and private key file when deciding whether
71     to skip generating a key to avoid accidental overwrites.
72 root 1.116
73 root 1.114 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
74 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
75     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
76     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
77 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
78 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
79 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
80 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
81     function which is now deprecated.
82 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
83 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
84 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
85 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
86     the protocol not being configured locally.
87 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
88     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
89 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
90     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
91 root 1.116 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
92 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
93     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
94 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
95     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
96 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
97     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
98 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
99     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
100 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
101 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
102 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
103 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
104     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
105     but try to recover.
106 root 1.116 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
107 root 1.99 not rely on case.
108     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
109     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
110     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
111     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
112     needless packets.
113     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
114     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
115 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
116     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
117 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
118     doesn't generate them.
119 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
120 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
121 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
122     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
123 root 1.97
124     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
125     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
126 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
127 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
128 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
129 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
130 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
131 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
132 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
133     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
134 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
135 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
136 pcg 1.90
137 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
138 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
139 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
140 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
141 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
142 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
143 pcg 1.85
144 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
145 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
146 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
147     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
148 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
149 pcg 1.84
150 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
151 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
152 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
153     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
154 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
155 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
156 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
157 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
158     new packets arrive for it.
159 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
160 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
161 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
162     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
163     should work).
164 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
165     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
166     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
167     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
168 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
169 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
170 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
171     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
172 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
173     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
174 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
175     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
176 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
177    
178 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
179 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
180 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
181     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
182 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
183 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
184     and throughput.
185     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
186 pcg 1.67
187 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
188 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
189 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
190 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
191     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
192     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
193 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
194 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
195 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
196     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
197     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
198     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
199     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
200 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
201     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
202 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
203 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
204 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
205 pcg 1.56
206 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
207 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
208 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
209     scripts and exits on failure.
210 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
211     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
212     automatically in most configurations.
213 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
214 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
215     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
216 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
217 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
218 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
219 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
220     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
221 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
222     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
223     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
224 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
225     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
226     etc. scripts.
227 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
228     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
229 pcg 1.43
230 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
231 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
232 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
233     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
234 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
235 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
236 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
237     tincd drivers a bit better.
238 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
239     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
240     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
241 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
242     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
243     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
244     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
245 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
246 pcg 1.36
247 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
248 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
249 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
250 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
251 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
252     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
253 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
254 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
255 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
256 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
257 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
258 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
259 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
260 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
261 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
262 pcg 1.22
263 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
264 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
265 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
266     to option and config file parsing.
267 pcg 1.21
268 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
269 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
270     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
271     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
272     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
273     it a little bit more standard c++).
274 pcg 1.19
275 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
276 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
277     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
278     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
279     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
280     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
281     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
282     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
283     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
284     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
285     unnecessary connectivity delays.
286 pcg 1.15
287 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
288 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
289     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
290     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
291     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
292     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
293     remotely POSIX-compatible.
294 pcg 1.11
295 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
296 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
297     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
298     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
299     native/cygwin).
300     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
301     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
302     /* none yet tested */
303     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
304     - very minor bugfixes
305     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
306     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
307     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
308     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
309    
310     1.0 distant past
311     - protocol version 0.1.
312     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
313     machines or nets with many hosts.
314     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
315     connecting through routers (not a fix).
316 pcg 1.2