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GVPE NEWS

        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
          protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
          completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
        - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
          the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
        - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
        - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
        - new "include" directive for the config file.
        - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
           - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
             but try to recover.
           - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do
             not rely on case.
           - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
             base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
           - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
             latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
             needless packets.
           - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
             second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).

2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
          state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
          ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
        - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
        - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
        - add nfmark support.
        - add node-change script support.
        - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
        - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
        - clarify compression docs.

2.22 Sun Feb  1 17:25:28 CET 2009
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
        - updated copyright in program greetings.
        - fix some configure messages.
        - updated to libev 3.52.

2.21 Wed Sep  3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
          who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
          by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.

2.2  Mon Sep  1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
          but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
        - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
        - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
          (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
        - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
        - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
          new packets arrive for it.
        - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
        - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
        - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
          but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
          should work).
        - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
          packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
        - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
          not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
        - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
        - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
        - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
        - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
        - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
          and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
        - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
          and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
        - bugfixes.

2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
          be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
        - dns transport retries more aggressively.
        - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
          and throughput.
        - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.

2.0 Mon Dec  5 13:59:26 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
        - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
          gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
          even though it had received packets from it's new address.
          This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
          your ip address changed, which is *required*.
        - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
          where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
          connections to fail when only one side can connect.
        - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
          accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
        - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
          conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
        - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
          more useful log messages.
        - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.

1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
          scripts and exits on failure.
        - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
        - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
          automatically in most configurations.
        - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
        - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
        - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
        - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
          driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
          it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
        - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
          *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
        - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
          when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
          cpu time unless it is in use, too.
        - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
        - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
          etc. scripts.
        - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
          parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.

1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
          are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
        - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
        - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
        - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
          tincd drivers a bit better.
        - document icmp configuration values.
        - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
        - remove unused ChangeLog file.
        - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
        - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
          OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
          GNUTLS conversion in sight.
        - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.

1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - first gnu release.
        - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
        - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
          vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
        - new per-node option "max-retry".
        - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
        - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
        - fix configure --help output.
        - many documentation layout fixes.
        - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
        - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
        - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
        - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.

1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
          to option and config file parsing.

1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
        - various non-security-related bugfixes.
        - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
          it a little bit more standard c++).

1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
        - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
        - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
          to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
          will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
          adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
        - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
          this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
          unnecessary connectivity delays.

1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
        - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
        - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
        - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
          remotely POSIX-compatible.

1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
        - protocol version 0.1.
        - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
          (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
          native/cygwin).
        - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
          the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
          /* none yet tested */
        - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
        - very minor bugfixes
        - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
        - reduced default hmac length to 8.
        - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
        - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.

1.0 distant past
        - protocol version 0.1.
        - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
          machines or nets with many hosts.
        - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
          connecting through routers (not a fix).

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