Announcement: FreeS/WAN 2.06 (Final Release)

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The FreeS/WAN team is proud to announce the arrival of 2.06, the project's
final release of its freely redistributable IPsec for Linux.

Here are a few of the the notable features in 2.06, as documented in the
CHANGES file:

   KLIPS has been ported to Linux 2.6; please see the INSTALL file for more
   details.

   FreeS/WAN's kernel configuration option, CONFIG_IPSEC, has been changed
   to CONFIG_KLIPS, due to a name conflict with 2.6 IPsec. This breaks "make
   oldgo" on any kernel version, unless a corresponding change is made by hand
   to the kernel's .config file.

   KLIPS modules generated for 2.4 kernels via "make module" are now created
   in the modobj subdirectory, instead of linux/net/ipsec. The "make minstall"
   target has been updated, but users accustomed to a manual install take
   note.

   KLIPS now permits DNS packets out on UDP and TCP port 53.

   All support for transport mode has been removed.

As usual, you can grab this release via ftp from xs4all.nl:

ncftpget ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/crypto/freeswan/freeswan-*

... and binaries for RedHat/Fedora Core users here:

ncftp ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/crypto/freeswan/binaries/RedHat-RPMs/

Although this is the final full release, if bugfixes warrant it, patches will
be posted to ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/crypto/freeswan.

The team would like to thank all the contributors and users of past FreeS/WAN
releases for all their hard work and community support.

Lastly, for current FreeS/WAN users who are wondering "where do I go from
here?", take note of two projects, both forks of the FreeS/WAN codebase:
Openswan, formerly known as SuperFreeS/WAN (http://www.openswan.org) and
Strongswan (http://www.strongswan.org).

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Sam Sgro
[email protected]

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