This beta can be considered an initial release candidate for 1.2.0. See changelog below.
http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/beta/openvpn-1.1.1.18.tar.gz Beta web site: http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/beta/www/ Changes since 1.1.1: 2002.05.19 -- Version 1.1.1.18 * Added configuration file support via the --config option. * Added pthread support to improve latency. With pthread support, OpenVPN will offload CPU-intensive tasks such as RSA key number crunching to a background thread to improve tunnel packet forwarding latency. pthread support can be enabled with the --enable-pthread configure option. Pthread support is currently available only for Linux and Solaris. * Added --dev-type option so that tun/tap device names don't need to begin with "tun" or "tap". * Added --writepid option to write main process ID to a file. * Numerous portability fixes to ease porting to other OSes including changing all network types to uint8_t and uint32_t, and not assuming that time_t is 32 bits. * Backported to OpenSSL 0.9.5. * Ported to Solaris. * Finished OpenBSD port except for pthread support. * Added initialization script: sample-scripts/openvpn.init (Douglas Keller) * Ported to Mac OS X (Christoph Pfisterer). * Improved resilience to DoS attacks when TLS mode is used without --remote or --tls-auth, or when --float is used with --remote. Note however that the best defense against DoS attacks in TLS mode is to use --tls-auth. * Eliminated automake/autoconf dependency for non-developers. * Ported configure.in to configure.ac and autoconf 2.50+. * SIGHUP signal now causes OpenVPN to restart and re-read command line and or config file, in conformance with canonical daemon behaviour. * SIGUSR1 now does what SIGHUP did in version 1.1.1 and earlier -- close and reopen the UDP socket for use when DHCP changes host's IP address and preserve most recently authenticated peer address without rereading config file. * SIGUSR2 added -- outputs current statistics, including compression statistics. * All changes maintain protocol compatibility with 1.1.1 and 1.1.0. James
