Release 1.7.0: (27th July 2005)
- silently discard packets not for the call [Cameron/Jenkins]
- adopt sigpipe for use with SIGALRM on control connection [Wolter/Cameron]
- fixes known valgrind heap violations in 1.6.0 [Cameron/Thorne]
- properly report control connection echo reply loss [Wolter]
Release 1.6.0: (18th February 2005)
- fix double-free on stop control connection reply [Kivity]
- add --idle-wait option [Cameron]
- fix segfault on fatal connection error [Kivity]
- prevent a possible signal race [Kivity]
- prevent kill of init [Shurdeek]
- portability fix for non-Linux systems [Quinot]
- rename package from pptp-linux to pptp [Cameron]
Release 1.5.0: (22nd June 2004)
- fix statistics when buffering disabled [Wilson]
- do not inherit the GRE socket [Cameron]
- fix a case of non-shutdown of call manager [Klazes]
- add --nobuffer option to eliminate all buffering of packets [Wilson]
- fix corruption of command line as shown by ps [Howarth]
- fix CPU loop after pppd killed [Cameron]
- fix compile for ARM architecture [Hopf]
- add documentation for command-line options [Wilson]
- do not hang when a connection is refused [McCurdy]
- better describe a cause of EMSGSIZE [Cameron]
Release 1.4.0: (2nd January 2004)
- support options before hostname [Wilson]
- defer OCRQ until after SCCRP [Cameron]
- include uninstall target [Pieter]
- only issue a warning if sync mode is different to pppd [Klazes]
- reformat and tidy code [Klazes]
- reduce transmitted ack-only packets from 40% to 0.8% [Klazes]
Release 1.3.1: (11th June 2003)
- fixed bug introduced since 1.2.0 that prevented simultaneous tunnels.
Release 1.3.0: (10th June 2003)
- rewrite command usage text.
- increase call disconnect notification log message verbosity.
- inherit more make command line options.
- remove execute permissions on man page.
- fixed inefficient acknowledgement immediately followed by data packet.
- added statistics for link quality monitoring.
- remove include of callmgr, do separate compile.
- remove duplicate messages caused by code in header file.
- compilation fixes for Apple MacOS X.
- support multiple clients on alias IP addresses.
Release 1.2.0: (14th February 2003)
- subsecond packet timeout to improve performance on fast links.
- rewrite INSTALL.
- add man page to install target.
- fix response to dropped packets.
- fix man page, address must be before options.
- adopt man page contributed by Thomas Quinot.
- close stderr to prevent holding open ssh sessions.
- minor hint added in case of EIO on read() of pty.
- support synchronous HDLC ppp encoding. Synchronous mode results in an
important improvement of the CPU efficiency.
- handle out-of-order packets arriving on the GRE socket by buffering.
- bind GRE socket early to prevent ICMP Unreachable response by client.
Release 1.1.0: (20th March 2002)
- New release engineer.
- allow activation as a psuedo-tty child process from pppd.
This allows on demand pptp links or automatically reconnect.
- ADSL modem quirks handler by mulix@actcom.co.il.
Workarounds for Orckit ADSL modem.
- workaround for Cisco PIX connection drop after 60 seconds.
- enhance bad FCS error message.
- ported to FreeBSD and NetBSD.
- integrated call manager into pptp binary.
- many bugfixes improving stability.
Release 1.0.3: (7th May 2001)
- New maintaining team.
- Various bug fixes from the Debian package and FreeBSD port.
- Incorporate patch to support erroneous return code with
Alcatel ADSL 1000 modems.
- Fix incorrect call id error.
- New command line option: --phone (specify phone number).
(Needed by the Dutch Mxstream ADSL service.)
Contributed by Rein Klazes <rklazes@xs4all.nl>
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
