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Commit d3cef72f authored by Matt Johnston's avatar Matt Johnston
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changelog updates for 2013.57

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2013.57 -
2013.57 - Monday 15 April 2013
 
- Improved initial connection time particularly with high latency connections.
The number of round trips has been reduced for both client and server.
- Decreased connection setup time particularly with high latency connections,
the number of round trips has been reduced for both client and server.
CPU time hasn't been changed.
 
- Client will attempt to send an initial key exchange packet to save a round
trip. Dropbear implements an extension kexguess2@matt.ucc.asn.au to allow
the first packet guess to succeed in wider circumstances than the standard
behaviour. When communicating with other implementations the standard
behaviour is used.
- Client will send an initial key exchange guess to save a round trip.
Dropbear implements an extension kexguess2@matt.ucc.asn.au to allow the first
packet guess to succeed in wider circumstances than the standard behaviour.
When communicating with other implementations the standard behaviour is used.
 
- Client side: when public key or password authentication with
$DROPBEAR_PASSWORD is used, an initial authentication request will
$DROPBEAR_PASSWORD is used an initial authentication request will
be sent immediately rather than querying the list of available methods.
This behaviour is enabled by CLI_IMMEDIATE_AUTH option (on by default),
please let the Dropbear author know if it causes any interoperability
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- Implement client escape characters ~. (terminate session) and
~^Z (background session)
 
- Server will more reliably clean up utmp when connection is closed
- Server will more reliably clean up utmp when connection is closed, reported by
Mattias Walström
 
- Don't crash if /dev/urandom isn't writable (RHEL5), thanks to Scott Case
 
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- scp didn't work properly on systems using vfork(), thanks to Frank Van Uffelen
 
- Added IUTF8 terminal mode support. Not yet standardised though seems that it
will soon be
- Added IUTF8 terminal mode support (Linux and Mac OS). Not standardised yet
though probably will be soon
 
- Some verbose DROPBEAR_TRACE output is now hidden unless $DROPBEAR_TRACE2
enviroment variable is set
enviroment variable is set
- Fix using asymmetric MAC algorithms (broke in )
- Renamed configure.in to configure.ac to quieten autoconf, from Mike Frysinger
 
2013.56 - Thursday 21 March 2013
 
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@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ multihop_passthrough_args() {
total += written;
}
 
/* if args where passed, total will be not zero, and it will have a space at the end, so remove that */
/* if args were passed, total will be not zero, and it will have a space at the end, so remove that */
if (total > 0)
{
total--;
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dropbear (2013.57-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
-- Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:54:00 +0800
dropbear (2013.56-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
* New upstream release.
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