--- gvpe/NEWS	2013/07/17 04:36:09	1.115
+++ gvpe/NEWS	2013/07/18 13:35:19	1.116
@@ -19,9 +19,14 @@
    hmac_key = hkdf(hkdf-salt, hmac | ecdh)
    aes_key  = hkdf(hkdf-salt, aes  | ecdh)
 
-TODO: very much larger intiial seed
-TODO: don't use RAND_pseudo_bytes :/
+TODO: protocol magic fixen(!!!)
+TODO: "global"
+TODO: verify
+TODO: make sense of overhead calculation
+TODO: use aes in ctr mode for IV values
 	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
+        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
+          with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
         - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
           could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
         - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
@@ -37,7 +42,19 @@
         - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
           a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
           openssl documentation).
-
+        - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
+          and will be merged.
+        - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
+          of the config file.
+        - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
+          a fully random IV.
+        - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
+          for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
+          take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
+          do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
+          (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
+        - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
+          
 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
 	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
           protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
@@ -56,7 +73,7 @@
           to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
         - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
           to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
-          and to configure a regular imterval to reseed the rng.
+          and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
         - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
           to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
         - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
@@ -71,7 +88,7 @@
         - 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
+           - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases 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).