--- gvpe/NEWS 2011/06/21 16:27:32 1.102 +++ gvpe/NEWS 2013/07/13 04:10:29 1.112 @@ -1,12 +1,32 @@ 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). - - 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. @@ -26,6 +46,10 @@ 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 libev 4 API. 2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011 @@ -81,6 +105,7 @@ - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds and killing the conenction after 15 seconds. - bugfixes. + - autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11. 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.