Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday, March 13, 2001

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
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 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).

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.

This release is a bugfix release.  It fixes a serious problem in
the parsing of rules.  Everyone should upgrade.

Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other
changes the following:
 o fix big bug in rulespermit().
   Problem reported by Stephan Eisvogel <eisvogel@hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de>.
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/.