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Revision 1.39 by pcg, Tue Mar 8 00:32:53 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.112 by root, Sat Jul 13 04:10:29 2013 UTC

1GVPE NEWS
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3TODO: bridge mode, finally?
4TODO: gcm mode?
5TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash.
6TODO: increase rsa size.
7
8 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
9 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
10 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
11 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
12 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
13 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
14 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
15 function which is now deprecated.
16 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
17 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
18 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
19 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
20 the protocol not being configured locally.
21 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
22 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
23 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
24 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
25 and to configure a regular imterval to reseed the rng.
26 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
27 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
28 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
29 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
30 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
31 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
32 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
33 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
34 - new "include" directive for the config file.
35 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
36 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
37 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
38 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
39 but try to recover.
40 - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do
41 not rely on case.
42 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
43 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
44 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
45 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
46 needless packets.
47 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
48 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
49 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
50 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
51 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
52 doesn't generate them.
53 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
54
552.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
57 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
58 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
59 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
60 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
61 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
62 - add nfmark support.
63 - add node-change script support.
64 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
65 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
66 - clarify compression docs.
67
682.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
70 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
71 - updated copyright in program greetings.
72 - fix some configure messages.
73 - updated to libev 3.52.
74
752.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
76 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
77 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
78 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
79 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
80
812.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
82 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
83 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
84 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
85 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
86 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
87 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
88 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
89 new packets arrive for it.
90 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
91 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
92 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
93 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
94 should work).
95 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
96 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
97 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
98 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
99 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
100 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
101 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
102 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
103 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
104 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
105 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
106 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
107 - bugfixes.
108 - autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
109
1102.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
111 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
112 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
113 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
114 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
115 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
116 and throughput.
117 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
118
1192.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
120 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
121 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
122 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
123 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
124 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
125 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
126 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
127 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
128 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
129 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
130 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
131 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
132 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
133 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
134 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
135 more useful log messages.
136 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
137
1381.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
139 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
140 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
141 scripts and exits on failure.
142 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
143 - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
144 automatically in most configurations.
145 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
146 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
147 - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
148 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
149 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
150 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
151 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
152 *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
153 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
154 when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
155 cpu time unless it is in use, too.
156 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
157 - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
158 etc. scripts.
159 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
160 parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
161
1621.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
163 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
2 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols 164 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
3 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled. 165 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
4 - dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future). 166 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
5 - remove support for pre-release version protocol. 167 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
168 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
169 tincd drivers a bit better.
170 - document icmp configuration values.
171 - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
172 - remove unused ChangeLog file.
173 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
174 - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
175 OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
176 GNUTLS conversion in sight.
177 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
6 178
71.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005 1791.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
8 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 180 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
9 - first gnu release. 181 - first gnu release.
10 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority. 182 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.

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