Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Friday, January 20, 2006

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),
   and 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 Use __libc_enable_secure if it exists and issetugid() doesn't.
   Should allow the SOCKS_CONF environment variable to be used on Linux.

Server changes:
 o Disabled code for shutting down idle sockd processes, appears to need
   more testing.  Thanks to Rene Burkhardt <rene.burkhardt@ch.ibm.com>.

 o Several problems related to PAM-authentication fixed. 
   Thanks to Jacob Toxværd <tox@microknights.dk>,
   Rene Burkhardt <rene.burkhardt@ch.ibm.com> and
   Mr E_T <troll@arach.net.au>.

 o New module available: session.  This gives control over how
   many sessions different clients can create.
   See the module page "http://www.inet.no/dante/module.html" 
   and the directory "doc/module" in the distribution for more
   information.

 o Support server-chaining.  Currently only the TCP connect command
   is supported.  It might be possible to add support for UDP and
   TCP bind if requested.

Generic changes: None.
 
See the NEWS/PRERELEASE file for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from the previous
version of Dante:
  Server part:
     o Disabled code for shutting down idle sockd processes.  Users
       having the line "child.maxidle" in their sockd.conf need to
       comment it out for now.

     o In order to share some code, there were some api changes
       made to the bandwidth module, requiring users to upgrade.
       Users of the bandwidth module can contact sales for a free
       upgrade.
  Client part: None.


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