Amrita VPN detailed release history

Version 0.98-2 fixes the problem that prevented AmritaVPN version 0.97 onwards from binding to low ports. This release has some significant message logging enhancements. Some code cleanup work has also gone into this release.

Version 0.98 has major feature enhancements including:

• Monitoring facility for VPN key, VPN cert, and CA cert files.
• Email notification framework for notifying the user of important events such as connect, disconnect, and modifications to key/cert files.
• Addition of framework code to make error handling more robust and helpful to users.

Version 0.97-2 is a bug fix release which fixes an improper signal handling bug that has the potential to cause server aborts under certain conditions. Please upgrade if you're using an earlier version.

Version 0.97 has the following enhancements:

• Checking whether key and cert files exist and are accessible at the start up time.
• Refusing to run with root privilege if 'run-as-user' is improperly configured.

Version 0.96 has many useful feature enhancements including:

• DNS resolution on server-ip if it is a domain name.
• Automatic reconnects with configurable number and delay.
• Connect through proxy - supports Basic authentication.
• amvpn-keytool client-side option to use from client side.
• amvpn-keytool validate option to check against clock skews.
• Support for multiple amvpn processing in amvpn service. For each config file present in /etc/amvpn.d directory the amvpn service script will start an amvpn process.

Version 0.95-3 has enhanced server message logging to include the Distinguished Name of the client connecting.

Version 0.95-1 fixes a problem occuring during large downloads. Version 0.95-2 fixes improper error handling during multiple binds in server-mode.

Version 0.95 allows two remote Microsoft/Samba networks to be connected together with a minimal set of configuration options. See Amrita VPN HOWTO on how to configure and use this really useful feature.

The Beta-2 release features high performance I/O relay loop implementation.

The Beta-2-RC2 release has enhanced error handling and more importantly, comes packaged with a new tool - amvpn-keytool that greatly eases the task of creating and managing VPN certs/keys.