Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Friday, September 9, 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 program development.
Please see http://www.inet.no/ for more information about our
services.

Dante is free software, available under a BSD-like 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:
Server changes:
 o Fix bug involving use of syslog.
   Problem report from Nicola <nicola.canepa@sys-net.it>

 o Fix bug related to socks header split across multiple segments.
   Thanks to Patrick LeBoutillier <patrick.leboutillier@gmail.com>.
Generic changes:
 
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/".