Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Thursday, April 11, 2002

Inferno Nettverk is pleased to announce a new release of
Dante - a free socks proxy client/server implementation for UNIX.

Dante is being developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a consulting
firm located in Oslo Research Park, Norway.  Inferno Nettverk
provides services related to computer security, UNIX, and programming.
Please see http://www.inet.no/ for more information.

Dante is free software, available under a BSD/CMU license.  Inferno
Nettverk A/S also provides various commercial services related to
Dante, including support, development, porting and embedding.

The Dante package consists of two parts, packed into one archive.
1) The serverpart, supporting socks v4 and socks v5 (sans gssapi).
2) The clientpart, supporting socks v4, socks v5 (sans gssapi),
   http v1.0, and msproxy v2.0 (experimental).

In addition to standard socks authenticationmethods, Dante includes
the following additional methods: pam and rfc931 (ident).

Dante also includes an extension to the socks v4/v5 protocols which
provides a more generic bind(2) functionality, similar to what
non-socks programs expect.  This makes it possible to run standard
server applications like e.g. ftpd behind the Dante server.

Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other
changes the following:

Client changes:

Server changes:
 o Don't mark the rule as good either if sockscf.state.unfixedpamdata, 
   fixes bug reported by Jerry Murdock" <jmurdock@itraktech.com>.

 o fix a bug preventing the list given in a 'user:' keyword from
   being checked correctly. Reported by Oleg Bulavsky <bulch@ftc.ru>.

 o support interfacenames containing ':', e.g eth0:1, supposedly on
   linux 2.4.x.  From Rob Fowler <rfo@keta.mine.nu>.

 o new --disable-pidfile option to configure; disables pidfile creation.

 o fix bugs that reset some defaults at the wrong time, reported by
   dh_tsc_10@ugcs.net.

 o prototype script for generation of graphs with usage information included
   (bin/sockd-graphgen). Contact us if you run a socks server with significant
   usage, and you are willing to help with testing.

Other changes:
 o status info printed at the end of configure.

 o upgrade to libtool-1.4.2, automake-1.5 and autoconf-2.52.

See NEWS for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from
the previous version of Dante:
  Server part:
     None known.

  Client part:
     None known.

For more information, please see "http://www.inet.no/dante/".