Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway Monday, February 6, 2017 -- Dante v1.4.2 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 software engineering company located in Oslo Research Park, Norway. Inferno Nettverk specialises in services related to software development 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, 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 (socksify) part, supporting SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5, HTTP v1.0, and UPnP. In addition to standard SOCKS authentication methods, Dante includes the following additional methods: - BSD Authentication (OpenBSD). - LDAP. - PAM. - RFC931 ("ident"). This release is mainly a bugfix release. Changes include the following: Generic changes: o Support new version of libminiupnp. Patch from Michele Testa o Add glibc-devel as Dante rpm requirement. Requires entry for librt, used by socksify. Suggested by . Also needed for libdl.so. o Various build fixes, affecting RHEL 7 and potentially other platforms. Thanks to Thomas Petazzoni for submitting related patch. Server changes: o Various NetBSD configure and server related fixes. Thanks to Anthony Howe for bug reports and testing. o Corrected srchost values in examples/sockd.conf. Thanks to for bug report. Client changes: o Fix memory bug in the client that would lead to a crash when resolving hostnames on certain platforms. Diagnosis and patch from Jeremie Courreges-Anglas . Thank you. o A new environment variable has been added to aid application compatibility with socksify: SOCKS_FORCE_BLOCKING_CONNECT. See the socksify manpage for more information. See the NEWS 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 A/S, please see "http://www.inet.no/en/inferno.html".