--- gvpe/NEWS 2011/03/06 19:40:27 1.99 +++ gvpe/NEWS 2013/07/13 04:24:44 1.113 @@ -1,15 +1,39 @@ GVPE NEWS +TODO: bridge mode, finally? +TODO: gcm mode? +TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash. +TODO: increase rsa size. + - 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. + - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented + and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key + function which is now deprecated. + - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated. + - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for + efficiency reasons - only affects new keys. + - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite + the protocol not being configured locally. + - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid, + 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. + - 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 + (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki). - 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. + - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives. + - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other. - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements: - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport, but try to recover. @@ -22,6 +46,14 @@ needless packets. - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per second as opposed to once per 5 seconds). + - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack + messages (should help sack and ipv6). + - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe + doesn't generate them. + - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11. + - upgrade to libev 4 API. + - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3 + earlier but COPYING was forgotten. 2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.