Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Thursday, August 4, 2011 -- Dante v1.3.2


Inferno Nettverk A/S is pleased to announce a new release of
Dante - a free SOCKS client and server implementation for UNIX.

Dante is developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a UNIX consulting company
located in Oslo Research Park, Norway.

Inferno Nettverk specializes 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 24/7 support via phone and email, customized
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 and UPnP.

In addition to standard SOCKS authentication methods (none,
username/password, and GSS-API), Dante also includes support for the
following additional methods:
  - BSD auth (on OpenBSD)
  - PAM
  - RFC931 (the ident protocol)

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 mainly a bugfix release.

Changes include the following:

Server changes:
 o Part of the possible resource optimization indicated in section 4.4
   of the Dante 1.3.1 performance evaluation report
   (http://www.inet.no/dante/doc/1.3.x/dante_performance_1.3.1.pdf)
   has been implemented: scheduling new clients to the Dante process
   with fewest free slots available.

 o Fixed an unintended change to ACL semantics regarding bind requests in
   Dante 1.2.3.
   Noted by Ralf Wenk <Ralf.Wenk@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>.  Many thanks.

 o Fixed a bug regarding handling of cases where the ulimit for max number
   of files is unlimited.  Reported and analyzed by 
   Ralf Wenk <Ralf.Wenk@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>.

 o Fixed a bug introduced in 1.3.1 related to privileges during startup
   on Solaris.

Client changes:
 o The "HTTP_PROXY" environment variable has been renamed to
   "HTTP_CONNECT_PROXY" to avoid conflict with HTTP proxies that do not
   support the HTTP CONNECT request.


See the NEWS file for a more complete list.
Known problems: see the BUGS file.
Users upgrading from previous versions of Dante: see the UPGRADE file.

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

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