differences between 2.1 and 2.2?

[David Botsch]

Mindterm-light? DOn't see any mention of that on the appgate pages . . .




On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:29:47AM +0200, Andersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, David Botsch wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking, but don't see any type of changelog. Other than the
> > license, is there a difference between 2.1 and 2.2? If so, I am
> > intersted in what . ie bugfixes, security updates, etc.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The 2.2 release was not released very orderly, it was just there at some
> point (I had nothing to do with this), the reason was total internal (at
> AppGate) confusion about the licensing of the thing. Below is a crude list
> of the changes between 2.1 and 2.2. If you have any specific questions
> about this please let me know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> /Mats
> 
> ---
> 
> MindTerm, release 2.2 - Feb 12, 2002
> 
>     o MindTerm now uses same modules as MindTermLite (menu "Plugins")
>     o Added ModuleTelnet for telnet connections both locally and to hosts 
> behind
>       ssh server (telnet protocol is in package com.mindbright.net.telnet)
>     o Added ModuleTelnetProxy for making "dynamic" forwards/connections to 
> hosts
>       behind ssh server (e.g. with a telnet client or from within a 
> program)
>     o Moved scp and sftp into modules (i.e. now also available for 
> MindTermLite)
>     o Added passthrough-printing, if enabled saves output to file 
> (property
>       "passthru-prn-enable" set to true)
>     o Added new constructors to SSH2SimpleClient, now handles password,
>       publickey, and keyboard-intreractive authentication
>     o Fixed function key escapes for scoansi terminal type (thanks to 
> Charlie
>       Sears charlie@matsch.com for pointing this out)
>     o Fixed bug, "Save Settings As..." didn't work if alias not initially 
> saved
>     o Changed behaviour, remote file listing in scp gui is now generated 
> with
>       "ls -A -L -F -1\n", can be changed with property 
> "filelist-remote-command"
>     o Cleaned out filetransfer dialogs some and moved them to sshcommon 
> package
>     o Fixed bug, clone terminal title not set with xterm esc
>     o Changed javax.crypto to com.mindbright.jce.crypto to avoid name 
> clash when
>       javax.crypto is preinstalled (e.g. in jdk1.4)
>     o Added support for SecurID authentication method from ssh.com
>       (securid-1@ssh.com)
>     o Added display of banner message if sent when connecting or 
> authenticating
>     o Added countermeasure for timing attack on keyboard input (controlled 
> with
>       boolean property "key-timing-noise")
>     o Fixed some update issues in terminal window
>     o Fixed bug, TAB key didn't work in terminal with jdk1.4, new method 
> on
>       Component, setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled, must be called :-(
>     o Fixed bug, "VT Options" menu state wasn't updated
>     o Fixed bug, keep-alive couldn't be reenabled if previously enabled 
> and
>       disabled
>     o Fixed bug, didn't set terminal type correctly in SSH2
>     o Fixed bug, heavy traffic in channels could cause hang in internal
>       queues (fixed by Per Allansson at AppGate)
>     o Fixed annoyance allowing buggy ftp clients to send PASS command 
> eventhough
>       we reply with "230 User x logged in." (seems like dreamweaver does 
> this)
>       (thanks to Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU> for pointing this out)
>     o Fixed bug, keep-alive threads wasn't stopped correctly, resulting in
>       excessive threads
>     o Workaround for some buggy implementations of ServerSocket which
>       don't unblock accept() when ServerSocket get close() (fixed by
>       Per Allansson at AppGate)
>     o Fixed bug, couldn't handle text lines before identification string 
> in ssh2
>       if auto-detecting server protocol
>     o Fixed RandomSeed usage in MindTermLite, now seeds properly from all
>       available "component-events" too
>     o Fixed bug, SFTP didn't retrieve long directory-listings correctly
>     o Fixed bug, when filetransfer canceled showed error-alert in dialog
>     o Added properties to be able to tune some internal parameters such as 
> max
>       size of packets (see file PROPERTIES for a full list of all 
> properties)
>     o Added package examples containing example source code
>     o Fixed ftp proxy so that non-passive mode works with other ftp 
> servers than
>       local to sshd (if sshd address is other from "inside" use property
>       "real-server")
>     o Added property "fingerprint" (can also be appended with 
> ".<server>.<port>"
>       e.g. "fingerprint.host.server.com.22") which can be used to 
> (manually)
>       preset host key fingerprint instead of whole public host key
> 
> 

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