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diff --git a/ncat/ChangeLog b/ncat/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..344fdad --- /dev/null +++ b/ncat/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,229 @@ +# Ncat Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*- + +o Reworked the test program test/test-cmdline-split slightly and added + additional test cases. Rewrote cmdline_split in ncat_posix.c [Josh Marlow] + +o Added a test program, test/test-cmdline-split to test the cmdline_split + function in test/test-cmdline-split in preparation for an eventual rewrite of + cmdline_split [Josh Marlow]. + +Ncat 0.2 + +o Ported to Windows on Visual C++ Express 2008. Support isn't perfect because + of the lack of a fork() call and because we had to implement a hack to get + select()-like support for stdin on Windows, but most everything works fine. + We hope to get around these issues in the future. [Kris Katterjohn, Mixter] + +o Added IPv6 listen support (including --broker). Host access control is not + yet supported. [Kris] + +o Added SSL listen support (including --broker) [Kris] + +o Fixed SSL and IPv6 connect issues [Mixter] + +o Added IPv4 host access control to UDP listener and --broker [Kris] + +o Brokering mode now continually listens for connections rather than exiting + after the last client disconnects. [Kris] + +o Changed -l to mostly behave like OpenBSD Netcat. Instead of -l specifying + the local port number and -s specifying the local address to listen on, -l + is a non-option flag and you specify the local address/port like you do + a host to connect to in client-mode. [Kris] + +o Ncat's default port number is now 31337 instead of 5000. This because 5000 + is used for other protocols, such as UPnP. [Kris] + +o Specifying no port number with -l now works to listen on Ncat's default + port number. The original Netcat seems to just use an ephemeral port in + this case, and other incarnations make you specify a port number. So now + you don't have to specify a host or port number with -l, in which case + Ncat listens on any address, port 31337. [Kris] + +o Fixed Ncat so that it actually works like it should when transferring a file + between instances. Running "ncat -l 3333 <input" and then connecting with + "ncat host 3333 >output" should send the input file from the server to the + client. However actually doing this would either silently fail or complain + about a broken pipe. Thanks to eldraco for reporting this problem. [Kris] + +o Client-mode Ncat now exits upon receipt of EOF from the network side [Kris] + +o Client-mode Ncat now just tries to read anything from the network (still via + the Nsock library) rather than reading in a line-based manner. While being + an improvement in its own right, this is especially helpful for the new + Telnet negotiation option. [Kris] + +o Increased the default network data buffer sizes (reading and writing) from + a measly 256 bytes to a more respectable 8K for TCP and 128K for UDP. UDP's + is this large because a read returns an entire datagram, or discards what's + left if there is no room. [Kris] + +o The proxy options have now changed. Instead of having separate option names + for all of the different types of proxy protocols that will be supported, + --proxy is available to specify the proxy address and optional port, and + --proxy-type is available to specify the proxy protocol to use. [Kris] + +o Added an HTTP proxy server feature, which creates a simple forking HTTP proxy + server on the listening port (only supports CONNECT). This is specified by + "--proxy-type http" in server mode. [Kris] + +o The SOCKSv4 proxy option is now specified by "--proxy-type socks4" instead + of --socks4-proxy. This option also now takes the username from --proxy-auth + rather than the previous user@host:port syntax. [Kris] + +o The HTTP proxy option is now specified by "--proxy-type http" instead of + --http-proxy. Also, the HTTP CONNECT request now uses CRLF for the EOL + instead of just LF. [Kris] + +o Removed the SOCKS proxy server support because it was broken, didn't have + any support for SOCKSv5, and we now have an HTTP proxy server for a similar + purpose. [Kris] + +o Fixed --proxy-auth which always caused a segmentation fault. [Kris] + +o Fixed an issue which commonly occurred when using --proxy-type socks4 and + when reading from a piped or redirected stdin. The problem was that Ncat + was sending the data read from stdin across the network before it was fully + connected to the proxy. Thanks to Jah for noticing this problem. [Kris] + +o The output options -o and -x are no longer mutually exclusive. Also, the + documented alias for -x (--hex-dump) now works. [Kris] + +o Renamed -t (--idle-timeout) to -i [Kris] + +o Added -t/--telnet to handle DO/DONT WILL/WONT Telnet negotiations [Kris] + +o Added -C/--crlf to try to use CRLF for line-endings. This comes in handy + when talking to some stringent servers directly from a terminal in one of + the many common plain-text protocols which specify CRLF as the required EOL + sequence. [Kris] + +o Added -w/--wait for specifying a connect timeout [Kris] + +o Added -g and -G for IPv4 loose source routing [Kris] + +o Added -p to specify a local port to bind to in client-mode [Kris] + +o Added -n/--nodns to not resolve any hostnames [Mixter] + +o Added -c/--sh-exec, which is like -e but executes via /bin/sh [Kris] + +o Made -s (set source address) actually work in client-mode [Kris] + +o Changed --recvonly and --sendonly to --recv-only and --send-only [Kris] + +o Options taking a time (-d, -i, -w) are now more flexible: you can append + an "s" for seconds, "m" for minutes or "h" for hours (e.g. 30s) [Kris] + +o Fixed a bug which could cause Nsock tracing (use of -v one or more times) + to print very inaccurate times [Kris] + +o Removed unused XOR code [Kris] + +o Added file dependency checking to the Makefile. So now, for instance, if + a header file is modified, running make again will recompile all of the + files which depend on it. [Kris] + +o Improved the build system by removing the automake requirement ([Mixter]) + and by cutting down configure.ac and Makefile.in a lot ([Kris]). Other + various build/configure improvements were made as well. + +o Lots of documentation rewrites/updates, including separating the man page + into sections such as "Proxy Options", "Client-Mode Options", etc. [Kris] + +o Lots of code cleaning up [Kris] + +Ncat 0.10rc3 + +o Autoconf build process. ./configure;make! + +o Fixed Segmentation faults on outgoing connections that appeared on on + certain platforms/architectures/compilers. + +o Improved overall build quality and portability to other platforms and + architectures. Should build on multiple different platforms quite well. + +o Fixed some bounds checking on a SOCKS4 server buffer in ncat_connect.c + +o Fixed some documentation typos and --help/usage typos. + +Ncat 0.10rc2 + +o Fixed inetd-like support so executed programs actually exit when the + client does and don't hang. + +o Fixed some looping read/write issue with EOF handling. + -- Thanks to Sebastian Garcia. + +o Moved connect message "Lookup of $foo returned $bar" to the verbosity + output set instead of the default output. + +o Fixed bug in SOCKS4 server on rejected/refused connections. + +o First official release! + +Ncat 0.10rc1 + +o Removed access to XOR code with a view to totally removing it in the next + release of Ncat + +o One or two minor bug fixes. + +Ncat 0.09 + +o Added hexdump() support. + +o Added XOR cipher support. + +o Added --allow, --deny support IP address handling CIDR. + +o General code tidy up; better documentation in header file. + +o Various error messages cleaned up. Added new #define for NCAT_SHORT. + +o Added missing 'strerror(errno)' handling to some error messages. + +o Cleaned up various bits of code. + +o Reformatted code heavily into K&R layout. + +o Fixed XOR so it'll use longer passwords. + +o Worked on various cross-platform portability issues. + -- Thanks to Jonathan Saylor. + +Ncat 0.08 + +o Added millisecond resolution timer for blocking read/writes. + +o Added HTTP/1.1 CONNECT method proxying support. + +o Added Base64 encoder for handling Proxy-Authorization support. + +o Support added for --broker, full I/O multiplexing support. + +o Added additional feature of --talk + +Ncat 0.07 + +o Added feature of fork()'ing off on executing a 3rd party program to allow + continued incoming connections. + +o Added support for ASCII logging. + +o Added support for hexdump logging. + +o Various bits of code cleaned up. + +Ncat 0.06 + +o Added --listen support. + +o Added TCP/UDP support for --listen. + +o Added command line parser for handling options to pass to the command to + be executed. + +o Polished up --help, --verbose & --version. + + |