Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Monday, September 25, 2000

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

Dante is developed by Inferno Nettverk, a consulting company located
in Oslo Research Park, Norway.  Inferno Nettverk provides services
around 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 also provides various commercial services related
to Dante, including support, porting and embedding.

Dante implements v4 and v5 (sans GSSAPI) of the socks protocol and
has experimental support for the msproxy protocol.
Dante also includes an extension to the Socks v4/v5 protocol that
provides a more generic bind(2) functionality, similar to what
ordinary programs expect.  This allows one to run standard server
applications like e.g. ftpd behind the Dante socks server.


This version of Dante includes support for a new proxyprotocol
on the clientside: http.
This is intended to make "socksify" (and similar) work through http
proxies too.

Compared to the previous release, v1.1.2, this version brings
amongst other changes the following:
  o some fixes/additions to example/ files.

 o HP-UX 11.00 should now work.
   Thanks to Malte Cornils <malte@cornils.net> for testing.

 o httpproxysupport in client (meaning "socksify" can work 
   when going through webproxies too).

 o expire badmarking on bad/non-working routes/proxyservers after
   configured time.  Default to never expiring, as in previous
   versions.  See BADROUTE_EXPIRE in config.h.

 o don't close controlconnection if another socket is using it.
   Fixes a bug triggered when using the bindextension in certain
   cases.  Problem reported by Jacques A. Vidrine (n@nectar.com).

 o compilation outside source directory fixed, based on patch from
   NISHIMURA Daisuke <nishi@graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
See the NEWS file 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/.