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Revision: 1.141
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1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.140 TODO: updqate donna?
4     TODO: clear one-time key/auth material from memory?
5 root 1.139 - update embedded liblzf.
6     - use liblzf with static hash table: lowers stack usage.
7     - do not initialise liblzf hash table for faster operation.
8     - use C++ variadic templates for callback.h, get rid of callback.pl.
9 root 1.141 - update autoconf.
10     - slightly modernise code.
11     - make use of ICMPFILTER again, this stopped working because it
12     is not defined in the glibc header files.
13 root 1.138
14 root 1.137 3.1 Sat Oct 27 07:50:43 CEST 2018
15 root 1.136 - port to openssl 1.1 BUT SEE WARNING IN configure.ac. Do not use!
16 root 1.138 - tinc cruft removal: remove getopt.[ch], it's less portable to
17 root 1.134 have it then to not have it.
18 root 1.136 - tinc cruft removal: use pkg-config to detect libressl/openssl.
19 root 1.135 - minor cleanups.
20 root 1.134
21 root 1.133 3.0 Thu Nov 10 15:39:58 CET 2016
22 root 1.114 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
23 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
24 root 1.116 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
25 root 1.132 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: gvpectrl -g will now generate a single
26     keypair, while -G will try to generate all keypairs as before.
27 root 1.131 - openssl 1.0.2 is the latest supported openssl release,
28     openssl 1.1.0 is not supported at the moment as the work to
29     make it compatible to both versions is just too much. a switch
30     to openssl 1.1 or another library will be done in a future release.
31 root 1.132 - update examples to not generate keys centrally, but locally on each
32     node.
33 root 1.128 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
34 root 1.114 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
35     could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
36 root 1.126 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
37 root 1.114 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
38     adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
39     forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
40     - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
41     correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
42     - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
43 root 1.120 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
44 root 1.119 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
45 root 1.114 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
46     only missing private keys. private keys are also put
47     into the configured location.
48     - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
49 root 1.124 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
50     openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
51     is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
52     slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
53 root 1.125 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
54 root 1.115 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
55     a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
56     openssl documentation).
57 root 1.116 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
58     and will be merged.
59     - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
60     of the config file.
61     - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
62 root 1.117 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
63 root 1.118 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
64     (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
65 root 1.132 - during rekeying or connection establishments, hmac authentication
66 root 1.119 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
67     authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
68     - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
69 root 1.121 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
70 root 1.127 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
71     gcc's -fsanitize=address.
72 root 1.129 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
73 root 1.130 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
74     to make further changes easier.
75     - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
76 root 1.131 - check for both public and private key file when deciding whether
77     to skip generating a key to avoid accidental overwrites.
78 root 1.116
79 root 1.114 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
80 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
81     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
82     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
83 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
84 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
85 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
86 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
87     function which is now deprecated.
88 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
89 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
90 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
91 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
92     the protocol not being configured locally.
93 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
94     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
95 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
96     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
97 root 1.116 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
98 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
99     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
100 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
101     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
102 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
103     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
104 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
105     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
106 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
107 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
108 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
109 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
110     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
111     but try to recover.
112 root 1.116 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
113 root 1.99 not rely on case.
114     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
115     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
116     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
117     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
118     needless packets.
119     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
120     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
121 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
122     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
123 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
124     doesn't generate them.
125 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
126 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
127 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
128     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
129 root 1.97
130     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
131     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
132 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
133 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
134 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
135 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
136 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
137 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
138 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
139     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
140 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
141 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
142 pcg 1.90
143 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
144 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
145 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
146 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
147 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
148 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
149 pcg 1.85
150 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
151 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
152 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
153     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
154 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
155 pcg 1.84
156 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
157 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
158 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
159     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
160 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
161 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
162 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
163 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
164     new packets arrive for it.
165 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
166 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
167 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
168     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
169     should work).
170 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
171     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
172     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
173     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
174 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
175 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
176 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
177     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
178 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
179     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
180 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
181     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
182 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
183    
184 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
185 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
186 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
187     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
188 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
189 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
190     and throughput.
191     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
192 pcg 1.67
193 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
194 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
195 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
196 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
197     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
198     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
199 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
200 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
201 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
202     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
203     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
204     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
205     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
206 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
207     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
208 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
209 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
210 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
211 pcg 1.56
212 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
213 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
214 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
215     scripts and exits on failure.
216 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
217     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
218     automatically in most configurations.
219 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
220 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
221     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
222 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
223 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
224 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
225 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
226     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
227 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
228     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
229     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
230 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
231     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
232     etc. scripts.
233 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
234     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
235 pcg 1.43
236 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
237 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
238 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
239     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
240 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
241 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
242 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
243     tincd drivers a bit better.
244 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
245     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
246     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
247 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
248     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
249     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
250     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
251 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
252 pcg 1.36
253 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
254 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
255 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
256 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
257 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
258     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
259 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
260 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
261 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
262 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
263 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
264 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
265 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
266 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
267 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
268 pcg 1.22
269 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
270 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
271 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
272     to option and config file parsing.
273 pcg 1.21
274 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
275 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
276     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
277     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
278     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
279     it a little bit more standard c++).
280 pcg 1.19
281 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
282 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
283     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
284     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
285     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
286     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
287     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
288     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
289     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
290     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
291     unnecessary connectivity delays.
292 pcg 1.15
293 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
294 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
295     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
296     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
297     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
298     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
299     remotely POSIX-compatible.
300 pcg 1.11
301 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
302 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
303     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
304     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
305     native/cygwin).
306     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
307     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
308     /* none yet tested */
309     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
310     - very minor bugfixes
311     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
312     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
313     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
314     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
315    
316     1.0 distant past
317     - protocol version 0.1.
318     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
319     machines or nets with many hosts.
320     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
321     connecting through routers (not a fix).
322 pcg 1.2