Dropbear 2011.54 released

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Nov 8 21:09:24 WST 2011


Hi all,

A new version 2011.54 of Dropbear SSH is available from
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html

Changes are listed below. Note the new version numbering
scheme. Source is now stored with Mercurial at
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/

Cheers,
Matt

2011.54 - Tuesday 8 November 2011

- Building statically works again, broke in 0.53 and 0.53.1

- Fix crash when forwarding with -R

- Fixed various leaks found by Klocwork analysis software, thanks to them for
  running it

- Set IPTOS_LOWDELAY for IPv6, thanks to Dave Taht

- Bind to sockets with IPV6_V6ONLY so that it works properly on systems
  regardless of the system-wide setting

- Added ALLOW_BLANK_PASSWORD option. Dropbear also now allows public key logins
  to accounts with a blank password. Thanks to Rob Landley

- Fixed case where "-K 1" keepalive for dbclient would cause a SSH_MSG_IGNORE
  packet to be sent

- Avoid some memory allocations in big number maths routines, improves
  performance slightly

- Fix symlink target for installdropbearmulti with DESTDIR set, thanks to
  Scottie Shore

- When requesting server allocated remote ports (-R 0:host:port) print a
  message informing what the port is, thanks to Ali Onur Uyar.

- New version numbering scheme.

Source repository has now migrated to Mercurial at 
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/graph/default


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