Subject: (IPng 7151) the 5th announcement of KAME stable release

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:03:18 +0900

As usual, KAME Project has released "stable" packages of IPv6/IPsec
network code for FreeBSD 2.2.8, NetBSD 1.3.3, and BSD/OS 3.1. 

These packages are free of charge but absolutely no warranty. They are
avaiable from the following web site:

	http://www.kame.net/

Here is a summary of the differences between KAME stable 19981130 and
19990131.

<<IPv4>>
- ATM PVC pseudo device support for NetBSD
- ALTQ 1.1.3 support
- if_xl.c(FreeBSD 2.2.8) update

<<IPv6>>
- ND6 works properly as expected.
- bug fix of preventing non-link local multicast packets receipt
- introduced IPv6 only protosw, and backout KAME changes to sys/protosw.h
- changed *_input() return value from IPPROTO_NONE to IPPROTO_DONE.
  (this fix mbuf leak bug at receiving a packet with "no next header")

<<IPv6 API>>
- setsockopt(IPV6_CHECSUM) was stabilized.
- changed the member name of sockaddr_strage as bsd-api-new-05

<<IPsec>>
- removed confilict of KMALLOC/KFREE macro between ipsec and ip filter

<<Userland>>
- telnet supports source route for both IPv4 and IPv6: (@gw1@gw2@dest).
- many bug fixes and enhancements of bgpd
- rewrote tcp_relay() of faithd(for more stability)
- kame-send-pr is provieded for submitting KAME problems
- kit/src is confirmed or patched to work on FreeBSD 3.0

<<Others>>
- "bind8" is ready to talk IPv6.
- "apache13" was updated to use new patch which fixed args for freeaddrinfo().
- upgraded many ports' base version
- ports tcptrace support
- ports wbd support(multicast shared whiteboard)
- pkgsrc support for NetBSD, many pkgsrc added to NetBSD
- NetBSD ftp, ftpd EPRT/EPSV support
- altq package support for NetBSD

--KAME Project

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