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Revision: 1.98
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1 GVPE NEWS
2
3 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
4 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
5 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
6 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
7 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
8 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
9 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport.
10 - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for dns encodings that do
11 not rely on case.
12 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
13 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
14
15 2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
16 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
17 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
18 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
19 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
20 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
21 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
22 - add nfmark support.
23 - add node-change script support.
24 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
25 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
26 - clarify compression docs.
27
28 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
29 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
30 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
31 - updated copyright in program greetings.
32 - fix some configure messages.
33 - updated to libev 3.52.
34
35 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
36 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
37 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
38 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
39 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
40
41 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
42 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
43 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
44 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
45 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
46 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
47 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
48 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
49 new packets arrive for it.
50 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
51 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
52 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
53 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
54 should work).
55 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
56 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
57 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
58 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
59 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
60 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
61 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
62 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
63 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
64 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
65 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
66 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
67 - bugfixes.
68
69 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
70 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
71 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
72 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
73 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
74 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
75 and throughput.
76 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
77
78 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
79 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
80 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
81 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
82 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
83 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
84 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
85 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
86 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
87 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
88 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
89 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
90 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
91 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
92 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
93 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
94 more useful log messages.
95 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
96
97 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
98 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
99 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
100 scripts and exits on failure.
101 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
102 - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
103 automatically in most configurations.
104 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
105 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
106 - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
107 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
108 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
109 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
110 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
111 *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
112 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
113 when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
114 cpu time unless it is in use, too.
115 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
116 - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
117 etc. scripts.
118 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
119 parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
120
121 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
122 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
123 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
124 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
125 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
126 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
127 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
128 tincd drivers a bit better.
129 - document icmp configuration values.
130 - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
131 - remove unused ChangeLog file.
132 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
133 - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
134 OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
135 GNUTLS conversion in sight.
136 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
137
138 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
139 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
140 - first gnu release.
141 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
142 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
143 vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
144 - new per-node option "max-retry".
145 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
146 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
147 - fix configure --help output.
148 - many documentation layout fixes.
149 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
150 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
151 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
152 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
153
154 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
155 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
156 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
157 to option and config file parsing.
158
159 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
160 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
161 - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
162 - various non-security-related bugfixes.
163 - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
164 it a little bit more standard c++).
165
166 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
167 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
168 - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
169 - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
170 - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
171 to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
172 will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
173 adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
174 - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
175 this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
176 unnecessary connectivity delays.
177
178 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
179 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
180 - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
181 - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
182 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
183 - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
184 remotely POSIX-compatible.
185
186 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
187 - protocol version 0.1.
188 - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
189 (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
190 native/cygwin).
191 - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
192 the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
193 /* none yet tested */
194 - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
195 - very minor bugfixes
196 - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
197 - reduced default hmac length to 8.
198 - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
199 - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
200
201 1.0 distant past
202 - protocol version 0.1.
203 - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
204 machines or nets with many hosts.
205 - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
206 connecting through routers (not a fix).
207