[Announce] openswan-2.6.19 released

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Nov 24 20:38:52 EST 2008


Xelerance has released openswan 2.6.19. 

http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.19.tar.gz
http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.19.tar.gz.asc

This is a bugfix release. Most notable, L2TP problems on KLIPS
when using Windows clients.

As always, please use http://bugs.openswan.org/ to report bugs, or
discuss issues on users at openswan.org or dev at openswan.org. Or linger
at FreeNode's #openswan / #openswan-dev

>From the CHANGES file:

v2.6.19
* Fix for L2TP/IPsec with Windows machines having their packets
  disgarded by accident [Hiren Joshi]
* Workaround for bad "%v:" virtual_private= entries [paul]
* Fixes to interop with SoftRemote/aggressive mode [David McCullough]
* Fix for ERROR: Module xfrm6_tunnel is in use by ipcomp6 [paul]
* Fix for using MODPROBE=insmod where insmod does not support -q [paul]
* Enable all wins/dns options as specified in man pages [david]
* build support for all WINS/DNS options as mentioned in the man pages [david]
* Removed obsolete keywords: firewall (linux 2.0), spibase, spi,espenckey,
  espauthkey and espreplay_window (manual keying) [paul]
* Fix unneccesary and bogus connection switching with NAT [Shingo Yamawaki]
  (this might relate to several reported bugs in the tracker)
* Added cisco-decrypt utility for PCF obfuscation in contrib/ [paul]
* Fix for crasher when the leftcert= filename was not found [paul]
* Patch for "route already in use" when using two different IP's
  to talk to the same remote IP using two tunnels [Avesh Agarwal]
* Fixes to init scripts [Avesh/Tuomo]
  See also: RedHat bugzilla #466861.
* Bugtracker bugs fixed:
   #992: keyingretries default changed from %forever to 3 [ken]
         (bug was introduced in 2.6.x)
   #981: plutodebug=all klipsdebug=all not operate. [paul]
  #1003: virtual_private broken? [paul]




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