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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>
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pptp is an implementation of the PPTP protocol for Linux and other Unix
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systems.
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The code is released under the terms of the GPL; see the file COPYING
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for details.
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You can find notes on installing in the file INSTALL, usage notes in
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the file USING, design notes in the Documentation directory, and the
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standards documents used to implement pptp can be found in the
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Reference directory.
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New versions and additional documentation can be found on the PPTP
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Client project page, at http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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