The GNU inetutils team is proud to present version 1.9.3 of the GNU networking utilities. The GNU Networking Utilities are the common networking utilities, clients and servers of the GNU Operating System.
The following is new in this release: * ftp An old inability to allow other names than the canonical name has been corrected. This means that a machine entry in the .netrc file will now be used as expected. Previously any alias name was replaced by the corresponding canonical name, before reading the .netrc file. The internal command `hash' accepts a suffixed letter to the size argument, like `12k', instead of 12288. Made a minor change to the syntax of the command itself, allowing size changes independently of activation of hash markings. After a transfer the summary gives the speed as `Mbytes/s', `kbytes/s', or `bytes/s'. The .netrc file can be overridden by the environment variable NETRC. Of even higher precedence is the new option `-N/--netrc'. The access to the resulting file, whatever method, is now denied unless it is a regular file. * ifconfig Better command line parsing on BSD and Solaris systems. Touch only changeable flags on all systems. * logger The ability to use numerical facilities is restored to full range. * ping, ping6 The ability to specify a pattern as payload is corrected. * syslogd A new switch `-T/--local-time' makes the service ignore a time stamp passed on by the remote host, recording instead the local time at the moment the message was received. As a short form of `--pidfile', the switch `-P' is new. In common with other syslogd implementations, rsyslogd and sysklogd, there has for a long time existed an attack vector based on large facility numbers, made public in CVE-2014-3684. This is now mended in our code base. * telnetd The ability to autologin a client, without using authentication, is now functional in the expected manner, i.e., the prompt for a user name is suppressed in favour of an immediate password prompt. In a setting where the client is using a UTF-8 encoding, it was common to observe strange characters in most responses. This was caused by the server daemon, due to incomplete purging of internal protocol data. The issue should now be resolved. * whois Improved cooperation with servers like `whois.arin.net', `whois.eu', and `whois.ripe.net'. Please send bug reports to [email protected]. Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.9.3.tar.xz Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.9.3.tar.xz.sig To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify inetutils-1.9.3.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys D95A3C35 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. Many thanks to all the people who contributed to this release. Happy hacking! -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
