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libssh 0.4.6

gladiac — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:21:38 +0000

This is a new libssh release which fixes some problems on Windows, fixes open channel handling and keepalive.

If you are new to libssh read The Tutorial how to get started. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions.

You can download libssh 0.4.6 here. For Windows binaries we suggest to use the MSVC and MinGW binaries from the KDE Windows project here. Packages for Fedora are available here and for openSUSE here.

ChangeLog:

Added a cleanup function to free the ws2_32 library.
Fixed build with gcc 3.4.
Fixed the Windows build on Vista and newer.
Fixed the usage of WSAPoll() on Windows.
Fixed “@deprecated” in doxygen
Fixed some mingw warnings.
Fixed handling of opened channels.
Fixed keepalive problem on older openssh servers.
Fixed testing for big endian on Windows.
Fixed the Windows preprocessor macros and defines.

libssh 0.4.3

gladiac — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:21:31 +0000

This is a new libssh release which fixes important bugs and adds some nice new features. We have rewritten the poll(2)-emulation and on Windows we check for WSAPoll() on runtime now.

If you are new to libssh read the API reference how to get started. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions.

You can download libssh 0.4.3 here. For Windows binaries we suggest to use the MSVC and MinGW binaries from the KDE Windows project here. Packages for Fedora are available here and for openSUSE here.

ChangeLog:

Added global/keepalive responses.
Added runtime detection of WSAPoll() for Vista and Windows 7.
Added a select(2) based poll-emulation if poll(2) is not available.
Added a function to expand an escaped string.
Added a function to expand the tilde from a path.
Added a proxycommand support.
Added ssh_privatekey_type public function
Added the possibility to define _OPENSSL_DIR and _ZLIB_DIR.
Fixed sftp_chown.
Fixed sftp_rename on protocol version 3.
Fixed a blocking bug in channel_poll.
Fixed config parsing wich has overwritten user specified values.
Fixed hashed [host]:port format in knownhosts
Fixed Windows build.
Fixed doublefree happening after a negociation error.
Fixed aes*-ctr with <= OpenSSL 0.9.7b.
Fixed some documentation.
Fixed exec example which has broken read usage.
Fixed broken algorithm choice for server.
Fixed a typo that we don’t export all symbols.
Removed the unneeded dependency to doxygen.
Build examples only on the Linux plattform.

libssh 0.4.1

gladiac — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:48:16 +0000

This is a new minor libssh release which fixes some bugs we found since the last release. This version fixes some bugs discovered with KDE SC 4.4.

This version of libssh has official Windows support. The KDE Windows team ensures that the library is correctly working with MinGW and MSVC. Thanks for this!

If you are new to libssh read the API reference how to get started. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions.
You can download libssh 0.4.1 here. For Windows binaries we suggest to use the MSVC and MinGW binaries from the KDE Windows project here. Packages for Fedora are available here and for openSUSE here.

ChangeLog:

Added support for aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr and aes256-ctr encryption.
Added an example for exec.
Added private key type detection feature in privatekey_from_file().
Fixed zlib compression fallback.
Fixed kex bug that client preference should be prioritary
Fixed known_hosts file set by the user.
Fixed a memleak in channel_accept().
Fixed underflow when leave_function() are unbalanced
Fixed memory corruption in handle_channel_request_open().
Fixed closing of a file handle case of errors in privatekey_from_file().
Fixed ssh_get_user_home_dir() to be thread safe.
Fixed the doxygen documentation.

libssh 0.4.0

gladiac — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:00 +0000

This is a new major libssh release which provides new features, a cleaned up API interface and it will be typesafe for the future. We broke the API of serveral functions and added new ones so that we don’t have to break the API in future. You can find more information on this page. This version will be required by KDE SC 4.4 to get kio_sftp working.

This version of libssh has official Windows support. The KDE Windows team ensures that the library is correctly working with MinGW and MSVC. Thanks for this!

If you are new to libssh read the API reference how to get started. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions.
You can download libssh 0.4.0 here. For Windows binaries we suggest to use the MSVC and MinGW binaries from the KDE Windows project here. Packages for Fedora are available here and for openSUSE here.

ChangeLog:

Added scp support.
Added support for sending signals (RFC 4254, section 6.9).
Added MSVC support.
Added support for ~/.ssh/config.
Added sftp extension support.
Added X11 forwarding support for client.
Added forward listening.
Added support for openssh extensions (statvfs, fstatvfs).
Added a cleaned up interface for setting options.
Added a generic way to handle sockets asynchronously.
Added logging of the sftp flags used to open a file.
Added full poll() support and poll-emulation for win32.
Added missing 64bit functions in sftp.
Added support for ~/ and SSH_DIR/ in filenames instead of %s/.
Fixed Fix channel_get_exit_status bug.
Fixed calltrace logging to make it optional.
Fixed compilation on Solaris.
Fixed resolving of ip addresses.
Fixed libssh compilation without server support.
Fixed possible memory corruptions (ticket #14).

libssh 0.3.3

gladiac — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:15:11 +0000

This is the next bugfix release of libssh. Version 0.3.3 just fixes some bugs found during kio_sftp development which uses libssh now.

We created a tutorial how to get started with libssh. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions. You can download libssh 0.3.3 here along with a NSIS installer for Windows. Packages for openSUSE and Fedora are available here.

ChangeLog:

Fixed double free pointer crash in dsa_public_to_string.
Fixed channel_get_exit_status bug.
Fixed ssh_finalize which didn’t clear the flag.
Fixed memory leak introduced by previous bugfix.
Fixed channel_poll broken when delayed EOF recvd.
Fixed stupid “can’t parse known host key” bug.
Fixed possible memory corruption (ticket #14).

libssh 0.3.2

gladiac — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:49:24 +0000

This is the next bugfix release of libssh. Version 0.3.2 provides four new functions: ssh_init, sftp_get_openssh_version, sftp_readlink and sftp_symlink.

We created a tutorial how to get started with libssh. Please join our mailing list or visit our irc channel if you have questions. You can download libssh 0.3.2 here along with a NSIS installer for Windows. Packages for openSUSE and Fedora are available here.

The ABI compliance report for the library from version 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 can be found here.

ChangeLog:

Added ssh_init() function.
Added sftp_readlink() function.
Added sftp_symlink() function.
Fixed ssh_write_knownhost().
Fixed compilation on Solaris.
Fixed SSHv1 compilation.

libssh 0.3.1

gladiac — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:03:28 +0000

Today we present libssh 0.3.1 which is a bugfix release.

Please let us know if there is documentation unclear or missing. Please join
our mailing list or visit our irc channel. You can download libssh 0.3.1 here along with a NSIS installer for Windows. Packages for openSUSE and Fedora are available here.

ChangeLog:

Added return code SSH_SERVER_FILE_NOT_FOUND.
Fixed compilation of SSHv1.
Fixed several memory leaks.
Fixed possible infinite loops.
Fixed a possible crash bug.
Fixed build warnings.
Fixed cmake on BSD.

libssh 0.3

gladiac — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:05:03 +0000

It’s done! After several month of hard work we have a new release of libssh.
Version 0.3 has a lot of small and major changes. The API has been improved and
by this we had to break the API and ABI compability.

New functions:
channel_read_buffer, channel_get_exit_status, ssh_auth_list,
ssh_userauth_agent_pubkey, ssh_get_hexa, ssh_version

Changed functions:
channel_read, ssh_get_pubkey_hash, privatekey_free, try_publickey_from_file,
ssh_options_*

Please let us know if there is documentation unclear or missing. Please join
our mailing list or visit our irc channel. You can download libssh 0.3 here along with a NSIS installer for Windows. Packages for openSUSE and Fedora are available here.

ChangeLog:

Added support for ssh-agent authentication.
Added POSIX like sftp implementation.
Added error checking to all functions.
Added const to arguments where it was needed.
Added a channel_get_exit_status() function.
Added a channel_read_buffer() function, channel_read() is now a POSIX like function.
Added a more generic auth callback function.
Added printf attribute checking for log and error functions.
Added runtime function tracer support.
Added NSIS build support with CPack.
Added openssh hashed host support.
Added API documentation for all public functions.
Added asynchronous SFTP read function.
Added a ssh_bind_set_fd() function.
Fixed known_hosts parsing.
Fixed a lot of build warnings.
Fixed the Windows build.
Fixed a lot of memory leaks.
Fixed a double free corruption in the server support.
Fixed the “ssh_accept:” bug in server support.
Fixed important channel bugs.
Refactored the socket handling.
Switched to CMake build system.
Improved performance.