OpenSSH 3.9 released

[Peter Maas]

Openssh 3.9 has been released, its up to you guys to decide if its important
enough for FC3 or if it will wait till FC4.
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[openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH 3.9 released

OpenSSH 3.9 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0
implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

We would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued
support to the project, especially those who contributed source and
bought T-shirts or posters.

We have a new design of T-shirt available, more info on
        http://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html#18

For international orders use http://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order
and for European orders, use http://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order.eu


Changes since OpenSSH 3.8:
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* Added new "IdentitiesOnly" option to ssh(1), which specifies that it
should
  use keys specified in ssh_config, rather than any keys in ssh-agent(1)

* Make sshd(8) re-execute itself on accepting a new connection. This
security
  measure ensures that all execute-time randomisations are reapplied for
each
  connection rather than once, for the master process' lifetime. This
includes
  mmap and malloc mappings, shared library addressing, shared library
mapping
  order, ProPolice and StackGhost cookies on systems that support such
things

* Add strict permission and ownership checks to programs reading
~/.ssh/config
  NB ssh(1) will now exit instead of trying to process a config with poor
  ownership or permissions

* Implemented the ability to pass selected environment variables between the
  client and the server. See "AcceptEnv" in sshd_config(5) and "SendEnv" in
  ssh_config(5) for details

* Added a "MaxAuthTries" option to sshd(8), allowing control over the
maximum
  number of authentication attempts permitted per connection

* Added support for cancellation of active remote port forwarding sessions.
  This may be performed using the ~C escape character, see "Escape
Characters"
  in ssh(1) for details

* Many sftp(1) interface improvements, including greatly enhanced "ls"
support
  and the ability to cancel active transfers using SIGINT (^C)

* Implement session multiplexing: a single ssh(1) connection can now carry
  multiple login/command/file transfer sessions. Refer to the
"ControlMaster"
  and "ControlPath" options in ssh_config(5) for more information

* The sftp-server has improved support for non-POSIX filesystems (e.g. FAT)

* Portable OpenSSH: Re-introduce support for PAM password authentication, in
  addition to the keyboard-interactive driver. PAM password authentication
  is less flexible, and doesn't support pre-authentication password expiry
but
  runs in-process so Kerberos tokens, etc are retained

* Improved and more extensive regression tests

* Many bugfixes and small improvements

Checksums:
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- MD5 (openssh-3.9.tgz) = 93f48bfcc1560895ae53de6bfc41689b
- MD5 (openssh-3.9p1.tar.gz) = 8e1774d0b52aff08f817f3987442a16e


Reporting Bugs:
===============

- please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
  and http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/

OpenSSH is brought to you by Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Kevin Steves, Damien Miller, Ben Lindstrom, Darren Tucker and Tim Rice.

ChangeLog: http://openbsd.md5.com.ar/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/ChangeLog

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Peter Maas