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<title>SSH Release Notes History</title>
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<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Updated asn1 file due to change in the asn1 compiler.
This has no semantical effect on the ssh application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7246</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Allows for the option {fd, FD} in listen and connect
calls. The option is passed on to gen_tcp:listen and
gen_tcp:connect</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7247</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Putty version 0.60 sends ignore messages, which hanged
the OTP ssh server.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7076</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
ssh_cm hanged when connection was closed during
handshake. (Triggered by putty 0.60 client.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7089</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fixed crash in server when receiving an empty ignore-msg.
(From the putty 0.60 client.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7135</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Now uses the base 64 encode/decode function in stdlib.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6486</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Removed runtime dependency on asn1.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6570</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Documentation update of ssh.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7063 Aux Id: seq10789 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Same listener is used for both sshd and sftpd. Previously
the sftpd server had to be run on a separate port, now
the sshd listener will start an sftpd server when an sftp
client connects.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7090 Aux Id: seq10675 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Kebord-interactive support, according to rfc 4256, has
been added to the ssh client. Also the option
<c>quiet_mode</c> has been added so that unwanted banners
may be suppressed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7106 Aux Id: seq10841 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
[sftpd] - Root parameter now behaves as expected,
instead of making sftpd malfunction.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7057 Aux Id: seq10830 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The sftp-server could crash if a "ls" was done on the
client, and a file was removed while ssh_sftpd:list_dir
was reading the directory, an error code from
read_file_info wasn't handled properly. This fix makes ls
return an error code instead.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6854 Aux Id: seq10740 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fixed bugs in prompting in ssl_cli. Prompts like \003>
were written as \300>. Also, newlines and returns was
removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6917 Aux Id: seq10773 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
[sftpd] - New option "root" to set the root of the
sftp-server and the callback module for file handling now
has a state parameter.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7075 Aux Id: seq10675 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9.2</title>
<section>
<title>Better error-handling in ssh_sshd:listen</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The caller was hanged when listening with ssh_sshd:listen
(or ssh_sftpd:listen) on a port and IP already in use.
Now an error is returned instead.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6727</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Fix in ssh_sftpd</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Cd ../.. didn't work when connecting to a ssh_sftpd server.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6727</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9.1</title>
<section>
<title>Minor Makefile changes</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Removed use of <c><![CDATA[erl_flags]]></c> from Makefile.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>A race condition that could make the server crash if a
client sent a SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST packet immediately
after its SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST, is removed.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6379 Aux Id: seq10523 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.8</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Corrected minor bugs and removed dead code found by
dialyzer.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6524</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.7</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>[sftp] - The function ssh_sftp:make_symlink/3 was not
fully implemented.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6446</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[ssh] - An internal value was, due to a bug, always set
to undefined even when it was not, this could lead to
connections being wrongly refused.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6450</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>A pattern matching was missing "/binary" resulting in
that the internal function ssh_xfer:decode_acl/2 did not
work as expected.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6458</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftp] - read_link/2 did not return the documented value</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6471</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Removed debugg printouts from ssh_cli.erl</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6483</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftp, ssh] - The connection timeout was overridden by an
internal gen_server default timeout.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6488 Aux Id: seq10569 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.6</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Removed debug printout from production code.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6348 Aux Id: seq10510 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - When the sftp client ends the session the
server will now behave correctly and not leave the client
hanging.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6349 Aux Id: seq10510 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - No longer used files were not closed until the
session was ended.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6350 Aux Id: seq10514 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - File rename requests sent by sftp version 3
clients were not handled.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6352 Aux Id: seq10513 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - Request that did not fit into one ssh message
were not handled.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6353 Aux Id: seq10515 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Removed error logging of auth method none, as this is not
an error but rather a feature, that is used to get
initial information from the server.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6414</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - Added new option to specify a callback module
for the sftpd-server file handling. The default callback
module uses file and filelib.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6356 Aux Id: seq10519 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.5</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The data window in SSH wasn't resized in the ssh_cli
receive data, this made the ssh_cli-server hang if more
than 64K data was received at one time. The option
tcp_nodelay was added, for nodelay in tcp connections.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6231</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.4</title>
<section>
<title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Unnecessary explicit start of crypto application
in ssh application. This has been removed. The
app-file specifies that ssh depends on the crypto app.
This is enough. See also the
<seealso marker="ssh">ssh</seealso> module.</p>
<p>Also changed some error reports to info reports.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6183</p>
<p>Aux Id: Seq 10383</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.3</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Added way for cli to get peer name</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6138</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.2</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Added some options to listen</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6070</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.1</title>
<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
[sftpd] - Root parameter now behaves as expected,
instead of making sftpd malfunction.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7057 Aux Id: seq10830 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Ssh 0.9.9.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The sftp-server could crash if a "ls" was done on the
client, and a file was removed while ssh_sftpd:list_dir
was reading the directory, an error code from
read_file_info wasn't handled properly. This fix makes ls
return an error code instead.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6854 Aux Id: seq10740 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fixed bugs in prompting in ssl_cli. Prompts like \003>
were written as \300>. Also, newlines and returns was
removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6917 Aux Id: seq10773 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
[sftpd] - New option "root" to set the root of the
sftp-server and the callback module for file handling now
has a state parameter.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7075 Aux Id: seq10675 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9.2</title>
<section>
<title>Better error-handling in ssh_sshd:listen</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The caller was hanged when listening with ssh_sshd:listen
(or ssh_sftpd:listen) on a port and IP already in use.
Now an error is returned instead.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6727</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Fix in ssh_sftpd</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Cd ../.. didn't work when connecting to a ssh_sftpd server.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6727</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9.1</title>
<section>
<title>Minor Makefile changes</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Removed use of <c><![CDATA[erl_flags]]></c> from Makefile.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.9</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>A race condition that could make the server crash if a
client sent a SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST packet immediately
after its SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST, is removed.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6379 Aux Id: seq10523 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.8</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Corrected minor bugs and removed dead code found by
dialyzer.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6524</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.7</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>[sftp] - The function ssh_sftp:make_symlink/3 was not
fully implemented.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6446</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[ssh] - An internal value was, due to a bug, always set
to undefined even when it was not, this could lead to
connections being wrongly refused.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6450</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>A pattern matching was missing "/binary" resulting in
that the internal function ssh_xfer:decode_acl/2 did not
work as expected.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6458</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftp] - read_link/2 did not return the documented value</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6471</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Removed debugg printouts from ssh_cli.erl</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6483</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftp, ssh] - The connection timeout was overridden by an
internal gen_server default timeout.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6488 Aux Id: seq10569 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.6</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Removed debug printout from production code.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6348 Aux Id: seq10510 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - When the sftp client ends the session the
server will now behave correctly and not leave the client
hanging.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6349 Aux Id: seq10510 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - No longer used files were not closed until the
session was ended.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6350 Aux Id: seq10514 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - File rename requests sent by sftp version 3
clients were not handled.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6352 Aux Id: seq10513 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - Request that did not fit into one ssh message
were not handled.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6353 Aux Id: seq10515 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Removed error logging of auth method none, as this is not
an error but rather a feature, that is used to get
initial information from the server.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6414</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>[sftpd] - Added new option to specify a callback module
for the sftpd-server file handling. The default callback
module uses file and filelib.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6356 Aux Id: seq10519 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Ssh 0.9.5</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The data window in SSH wasn't resized in the ssh_cli
receive data, this made the ssh_cli-server hang if more
than 64K data was received at one time. The option
tcp_nodelay was added, for nodelay in tcp connections.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6231</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.4</title>
<section>
<title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Unnecessary explicit start of crypto application
in ssh application. This has been removed. The
app-file specifies that ssh depends on the crypto app.
This is enough. See also the
<seealso marker="ssh">ssh</seealso> module.</p>
<p>Also changed some error reports to info reports.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6183</p>
<p>Aux Id: Seq 10383</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.3</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Added way for cli to get peer name</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6138</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.2</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Added some options to listen</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6070</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9.1</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Fixes in ssh_sftp, changes of timeout handling,
expand_fun moved to io:setopts</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-5877 Aux Id: OTP-5781 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSH 0.9</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The previously undocumented and UNSUPPORTED <c><![CDATA[ssh]]></c>
application has been updated and documented. This release
of the <c><![CDATA[ssh]]></c> application is still considered to be a
beta release and (if necessary) there could still be
changes in its API before it reaches 1.0.</p>
<p>Also, more cryptographic algorithms have been added to
the <c><![CDATA[crypto]]></c> application.</p>
<p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-5631</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
