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+strongswan-5.1.0
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+
+- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
+  and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11).  The crash
+  was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
+  The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
+
+- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
+  connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
+  It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
+  few simple command line options.
+
+- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
+  can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
+  systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
+
+- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
+  processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
+
+- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
+  directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
+  attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
+  combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
+  backend for IKEv1.
+
+- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
+  servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
+  certificates from the OS X keychain service.
+
+- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
+  option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
+  To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
+  replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
+  formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
+  PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
+
+- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
+  by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin.  charon-cmd (--p12) as well
+  as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
+
+- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
+
+- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
+  on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
+  between peers.
+
+- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
+  can  generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
+  Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
+  and/or device.
+
+- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests.  These
+  can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'.  Coverage
+  reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
+  disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
+  production releases).
+
+- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
+  faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
+  anymore and has been ported to OS X.
+
+- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key.  This provides
+  better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
+  hashtables.
+
+- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
+  and their dependencies.  The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
+  in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
+  without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
+
+- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
+  concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
+  various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
+  reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
+
+- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
+  transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
+  TCP connections from a different host.
+
+- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
+
+
 strongswan-5.0.4
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