Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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 v1.0, and UPnP.

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Please note that this is a pre-release.  We ask that everyone who
can, tests it to the extent possible, to help reduce problems in
the upcoming release.  Problems can be reported to dante-bugs@inet.no.

Also note that pre-releases are configured in a way that puts a
considerably larger load on the running system than the standard releases.
This is to help simulate high-load situations and increase the chances
of detecting problems before the full release.

A full release is expected to be made in approximately one month.
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In addition to standard socks authentication methods, Dante includes
the following additional methods:
  - BSD Authentication (OpenBSD)
  - LDAP (via a commercial module)
  - PAM
  - 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:

Generic changes:
 o GSSAPI "clear" is no longer enabled by default, as it is not part of the
   SOCKS GSSAPI standard per se.

Server changes:
 o external.rotation was not handling non-IPv4 target addresses correctly.
    Reported and diagnosed by Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer@one-it.de.example.com>.

 o The --disable-libwrap option has been renamed --without-libwrap.

 o Fixed bug that would cause the following warning to sometimes be
   reported despite this not being a problem:
   "warning: accept(2) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"

 o SIGINFO loginformation extended to include information about current
   buffering status and UDP latency.

 o Real-time scheduling priority settings and CPU affinity settings made
   available in sockd.conf.

   See https://www.inet.no/dante/files/dante_realtime_preview.pdf for
   a performance analysis done in relation to this work.

 o General API for setting socket options on TCP/UDP sockets used by Dante
   made available in sockd.conf.

 o Support for cross compilation of client library for Android
   (system name 'arm-linux-androideabi').
   Testing and analysis by Yoav Weiss <weiss.yoav@gmail.com.example.com>.

Client changes:

See the PRERELEASE file for a more complete list of changes.
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".