Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Friday, May 28, 2010

Inferno Nettverk A/S 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 UNIX consulting
company located in Oslo Research Park, Norway.

Inferno Nettverk specialises in services related to software development
and porting on UNIX/Linux and embedded/real-time platforms.

Please see http://www.inet.no/english/services.html for more information
about our services.

Dante is free software, available under a BSD-like license.
Inferno Nettverk also provides commercial services related to Dante.
These services include support via phone and email, customised
installations/tuning of Dante, development, porting and embedding.

The Dante software consists of two parts, packed into one archive.
1) The server part, supporting socks v4 and socks v5.
2) The client part, supporting socks v4, socks v5, http v1.0, and UPnP.

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.

This is a maintenance release mostly intended to fix a few bugs.
Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other
changes the following:

Generic changes:
 o Compilation fixes for OpenSuse 11.1.
   Problem reported by Markus Moeller (markus_moeller at compuserve.com).

 o Compilation fixes for AIX 6.1.
   Problem reported by Ralf Wenk <iz-dante-0910@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>.
   Tested by Marcel Augenstein.
 
Server changes:
 o Code for shutting down idle sockd processes put back and can be
   enabled again, if desired.  It is not recommended for busy servers
   however as performance may be slightly degraded.

 o Assert failure related to message passing on some 64-bit architectures
   fixed.  Problem reported by Soner Tari <soner@comixwall.org.example.com>.

Client changes:
 o The fflush() wrapper function did not handle a NULL argument.
   Reported by "Kirby Zhou" <kirbyzhou@sohu-rd.com.example.org> and
   Victor Sologoubov <victor0@rambler.ru.example.org>

 o Fix libsocks upnpcleanup() linking problem when compiled without
   libminiupnpc.
   Problem reported by Kyle Thurow <krthurow@gmail.com.example.com> and
   Adam Prato <adam.prato@gmail.com.example.com>.

See the NEWS file for a more complete list.
Known problems: see the BUGS file.

Notes:
 o The survey at http://www.inet.no/dante/survey.html has been
   updated. Please take the time to fill it out if you are using Dante.
   We use the data from the survey to evaluate possible future
   developments of Dante.

 o Support for the msproxy protocol will likely be removed in the near
   future. If anyone is still using Dante with msproxy and is willing
   to test the code, please contact us.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from the previous
official version of Dante:
  Server part: None
  Client part: None
 

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

For more information about Inferno Nettverk, please see
"http://www.inet.no/inferno.html".