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3TODO: gvpectrl should not use default privatekey,. or maybe document it better
4 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
5 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
6 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
7 - openssl 1.0.2 is the latest supported openssl release,
8 openssl 1.1.0 is not supported at the moment as the work to
9 make it compatible to both versions is just too much. a switch
10 to openssl 1.1 or another library will be done in a future release.
11 - gvpectrl -g will now generate a single keypair, while -G
12 will try to generate all keypairs as before.
13 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
14 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
15 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
16 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
17 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
18 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
19 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
20 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
21 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
22 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
23 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
24 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
25 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
26 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
27 into the configured location.
28 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
29 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
30 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
31 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
32 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
33 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
34 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
35 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
36 openssl documentation).
37 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
38 and will be merged.
39 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
40 of the config file.
41 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
42 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
43 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
44 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
45 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
46 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
47 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
48 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
49 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
50 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
51 gcc's -fsanitize=address.
52 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
53 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
54 to make further changes easier.
55 - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
56 - check for both public and private key file when deciding whether
57 to skip generating a key to avoid accidental overwrites.
58
592.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
3 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other 60 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
4 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with 61 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
5 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests. 62 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
6 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2. 63 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
64 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
65 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
66 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
67 function which is now deprecated.
68 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
69 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
70 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
7 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite 71 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
8 the protocol not being configured locally. 72 the protocol not being configured locally.
73 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
74 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
75 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
76 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
77 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
78 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
79 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
9 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private 80 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
10 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki). 81 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
11 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
12 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports 82 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
13 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own. 83 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
14 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions. 84 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
15 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek. 85 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
16 - new "include" directive for the config file. 86 - new "include" directive for the config file.
17 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives. 87 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
18 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other. 88 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
19 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements: 89 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
20 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport, 90 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
21 but try to recover. 91 but try to recover.
22 - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do 92 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
23 not rely on case. 93 not rely on case.
24 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and 94 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
25 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet). 95 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
26 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases 96 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
27 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of 97 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
30 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds). 100 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
31 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack 101 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
32 messages (should help sack and ipv6). 102 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
33 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe 103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
34 doesn't generate them. 104 doesn't generate them.
105 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
35 - upgrade to libev 4 API. 106 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
107 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
108 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
36 109
372.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011 1102.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
38 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 111 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
39 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a 112 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
40 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be 113 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be

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