I'm sure you have received plenty of emails like this, but I'm just adding to the choir:<div><br></div><div>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv<br><div> Big thank you very much for the incredible effort you are putting on Dropbear!</div>
<div>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div><br></div><div>We are a small start-up and we are using dropbear (I'm two version behind now, but that is very stable and working great for us) for maintaining a secure, persistent connection (with two tunnels) between our embedded devices and our data center (I think I found the problem related to the keep-alive and liveliness)</div>
<div>I might consider migrating to the newest version in our next major version (our current version requires patching the source code).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Fabrizio Bertocci<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Matt Johnston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@ucc.asn.au">matt@ucc.asn.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
A new version 2011.54 of Dropbear SSH is available from<br>
<a href="https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html" target="_blank">https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html</a><br>
<br>
Changes are listed below. Note the new version numbering<br>
scheme. Source is now stored with Mercurial at<br>
<a href="https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/" target="_blank">https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Matt<br>
<br>
2011.54 - Tuesday 8 November 2011<br>
<br>
- Building statically works again, broke in 0.53 and 0.53.1<br>
<br>
- Fix crash when forwarding with -R<br>
<br>
- Fixed various leaks found by Klocwork analysis software, thanks to them for<br>
running it<br>
<br>
- Set IPTOS_LOWDELAY for IPv6, thanks to Dave Taht<br>
<br>
- Bind to sockets with IPV6_V6ONLY so that it works properly on systems<br>
regardless of the system-wide setting<br>
<br>
- Added ALLOW_BLANK_PASSWORD option. Dropbear also now allows public key logins<br>
to accounts with a blank password. Thanks to Rob Landley<br>
<br>
- Fixed case where "-K 1" keepalive for dbclient would cause a SSH_MSG_IGNORE<br>
packet to be sent<br>
<br>
- Avoid some memory allocations in big number maths routines, improves<br>
performance slightly<br>
<br>
- Fix symlink target for installdropbearmulti with DESTDIR set, thanks to<br>
Scottie Shore<br>
<br>
- When requesting server allocated remote ports (-R 0:host:port) print a<br>
message informing what the port is, thanks to Ali Onur Uyar.<br>
<br>
- New version numbering scheme.<br>
<br>
Source repository has now migrated to Mercurial at<br>
<a href="https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/graph/default" target="_blank">https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/graph/default</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div>