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authorAndreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>2008-11-13 05:46:51 +0000
committerAndreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>2008-11-13 05:46:51 +0000
commit509e07c5bc837d46d55dcae8d630e989f84288a8 (patch)
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parentcd491348376cdc5a514e61dbe4c2535a943afff1 (diff)
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added MIPv6 functionality to NEWS
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strongswan-4.2.9
----------------
-- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem to different syslog facilities
- or files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
+- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
+ syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
@@ -13,15 +13,24 @@ strongswan-4.2.9
Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
parallelization to multiple cores.
-- updown script invocation has been separated in an own plugin to further
- slim down the daemon core.
+- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
+ further slim down the daemon core.
-- separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
+- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
memory or hardware.
-- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. Plugins for the native
- IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel and the KLIPS IPsec stack are provided.
+- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
+ and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
+ stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
+ IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
+
+- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
+ messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
+ The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
+ mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
+ IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
+ but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Adress.
strongswan-4.2.8