
			    ftp-utils NEWS

2002-01-19

* merged in support for webdav and sftp from Scott Parish;  greatly
  reorganized source 




2002-02-22:

* portability fixes including one important change to the FTP protocol
  sent to servers (should correct problems with ProFTPD for example).


2002-02-14:

* bugs in the hackerlab "tests/arrays-tests" and "tests/fs-tests" have
  been fixed (Reported and patched by Matthias Neeracher).

* You can now use an alternative shell for configuration

  "config.status" files now start with "#!" lines and the 
  "src/build-tools/scripts" configuration scripts use an
  explicitly chosen shell to call each other.  The top-level
  configure script now accepts a "--config-shell SHELL" option.

  This is a small step towards cygwin portability, and eases
  some of the portability constraints on "configure" for systems
  where "/bin/sh" is not quite posix.

  (Reported by Jason Diamond and others.)

* avoid dirent portability problems

  Some portability problems in libhackerlab's use of dirent have been
  fixed.  (Reported by several people.)





2002-02-07:

This is a bug fix release.  Various minor portability problems,
architecture bugs, and bugs have been fixed.



2002-01-30:

This is a pre-release version of 1.0.  (For a precise release id, see
the top-level file "=RELEASE-ID".)  The purpose of this release is to
distribute bug-fixes.

A significant security bug has been fixed.  `with-ftp' acts as a
server to descendent processes such as `wftp-ls'.  Previously,
it accepted connections over a TCP/IP socket from any address, without
any form of authentication.  Now, it accepts connections only over a
file-protected unix-domain socket, and authenticates clients.  



2002-01-17:

This is a pre-release version of 1.0.  (For a precise release id, see
the top-level file "=RELEASE-ID".)  The purpose of this release is to
distribute bug-fixes.

Volunteer opportunity: passive transfer mode is urgently needed for
this program.

All compiler warnings generated by `-Wall' have been fixed.  This
includes some problems that (seem to have) caused failures on 64-bit
systems.

Several users have reported success building and testing on GNU/Linux
while others have encountered problems.  The reported GNU/Linux
related problems have been fixed.

Problems have been reported on Solaris.  Some of these have been
fixed, others are pending.

A number of small typos and minor bugs have been fixed.

Port reports and patches related to porting are especially welcome
contributions.



2002-01-16:


This is a pre-release version of 1.0.  (For a precise release id, 
see the top-level file "=RELEASE-ID".)

This is the first public release of `with-ftp'.

I have no particular plans for this program, other than to maintain it
for `arch', but I'm interested to know if people find other
applications for it.

# tag: Tom Lord Thu Jan 10 05:43:40 2002 (ftp-utils/=NEWS)
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