[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.1-beta8 released

[James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Among other changes, this release improves the "ip-win32 adaptive"
option and makes it the default.  The goal is to automatically
work around issues with third-party Windows firewalls that block
the TAP-Win32 adapter DHCP negotiation, by falling back to netsh
when DHCP-mode fails.  In this release, the OpenVPN Windows client
knows how to set DNS/WINS addresses (as well as the primary adapter
IP/netmask) using netsh, if DHCP-mode fails.

This makes the "ip-win32 netsh" mode a near-drop-in replacement for
"ip-win32 dynamic".

Download:

http://openvpn.net/download.html

Change Log:

2006.01.03 -- Version 2.1-beta8

* --remap-usr1 will now also remap signals thrown during
 initialization.
* Added --connect-timeout option to control the timeout
 on TCP client connection attempts (doesn't work on all
 OSes).  This patch also makes OpenVPN signalable during
 TCP connection attempts.
* Fixed bug in acinclude.m4 where capability of compiler
 to handle zero-length arrays in structs is tested
 (David Stipp).
* Fixed typo in manage.c where inline function declaration
 was declared without the "static" keyword (David Stipp).
* Patch to support --topology subnet on Mac OS X (Mathias Sundman).
* Added --auto-proxy directive to auto-detect HTTP or SOCKS
 proxy settings (currently Windows only).
* Removed redundant base64 code.
* Better sanity checking of --server and --server-bridge
 IP pool ranges, so as not to hit the assertion at
 pool.c:119 (2.0.5).
* Fixed bug where --daemon and --management-query-passwords
 used together would cause OpenVPN to block prior to
 daemonization.
* Fixed client/server race condition which could occur
 when --auth-retry interact is set and the initially
 provided auth-user-pass credentials are incorrect,
 forcing a username/password re-query.
* Fixed bug where if --daemon and --management-hold are
 used together, --user or --group options would be ignored.
* --ip-win32 adaptive is now the default.
* --ip-win32 netsh (or --ip-win32 adaptive when in netsh
 mode) can now set DNS/WINS addresses on the TAP-Win32
 adapter.
* Added new option --route-method adaptive (Win32)
 which tries IP helper API first, then falls back to
 route.exe.
* Made --route-method adaptive the default.

James



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