ANNOUNCE: lsh-2.1

I'm happy to announce a new release of GNU lsh, an implementation of the
secure shell protocols. This is a maintenance release, with no new
features.

News for the 2.1 release

	No longer includes the Nettle library; GNU Nettle has to be
	installed separately. At least version 2.2 is needed.
	Available at ftp.gnu.org.

	Includes several improvements from debian maintainer Magnus
	Holmgren:

	 * Make lsh exit properly on connection failure.

	 * Improved lsh error message when seed file doesn't exist.

	 * Make lshd set the IPV6_V6ONLY option when binding IPv6
	   sockets.

	Uses a more recent version of automake, avoiding a
	vulnerability in the automake-generated distcheck target.

	Use service name "lshd" in lsh-pam-checkpw (patch from Ludovic
	Court=E8s).

	Fixed an utmp-related build problem on GNU/Linux x86_64.

	Testsuite includes new versions of tcpconnect and mini-inetd,
	which work better with IPv6.

Available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lsh/lsh-2.1.tar.gz.

Development of LSH have seen slow progress in recent years, for various
reasons. I'm working towards lsh-3.0, and users and developers are
encouraged to check out the development version. The client side of the
development version is pretty solid, I'm using it daily since a long
time. The server side has seen less testing. An (old) summary of
differences between 2.x and the development version can be found at
http://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/lsh-bugs/2007q2/000598.html, and a
list of important things that remain to do is maintained at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/plan.html.

I'd be happy to see a new co-maintainer or maintainer for LSH, to help
move the project forward. Please mail me if you are interested.
Non-maintainer contributions are of course also welcome.

The LSH homepage, http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/, includes
information about the psst mailinglist, the public git repoitory, as
well as the online manual.

Happy hacking,
/Niels M=F6ller

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