Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Monday, January 31, 2005 

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 server part, supporting socks v4 and socks v5 (sans gssapi).
2) The client part, supporting socks v4, socks v5 (sans gssapi),
   http v1.0.

In addition to standard socks authentication methods, 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:
 o Fixed problem involving non-blocking connects in socks clients
   on Linux.

 o Support for socksification of getipnodebyname(), contributed by
   Lennart Dahlström <lennart@appgate.com>.

 o Support for socksification of getaddrinfo(), contributed by
   Motoyuki Kasahara <m-kasahr@sra.co.jp>.


Server changes:
 o Limit the maximum number of available descriptors if necessary, 
   avoiding a possible overflow of fd_sets.

Generic changes:
 o Added absolute timestamp to logformat, in preparation for new
   module.

 o Prototype related tests during configure are rewritten.
   Might require prototypes for some platforms to be readded.

See NEWS for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from
the previous version of Dante:
  Server part:
  Client part:

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