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<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Dear Users,</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">The ChangeLog entry:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Sans Serif'"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Version 4.53, 2012.03.19, urgency: MEDIUM:
* New features
- Added client-mode "sni" option to directly control the value of
TLS Server Name Indication (RFC 3546) extension.
- Added support for IP_FREEBIND socket option with a pached Linux kernel.
- Glibc-specific dynamic allocation tuning was applied to help unused memory
deallocation.
- Non-blocking OCSP implementation.
* Bugfixes
- Compilation fixes for old versions of OpenSSL (tested against 0.9.6).
- Usage of uninitialized variables fixed in exec+connect services.
- Occasional logging subsystem crash with exec+connect services.
- OpenBSD compilation fix (thx to Michele Orru').
- Session id context initialized with session name rather than a constant.
- Fixed handling of a rare inetd mode use case, where either stdin or stdout
is a socket, but not both of them at the same time.
- Fixed missing OPENSSL_Applink <a href="http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG2">http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG2</a>
- Fixed crash on termination with FORK threading model.
- Fixed dead canary after configuration reload with open connections.
- Fixed missing file descriptors passed to local mode processes.
- Fixed required jmp_buf alignment on Itanium platform.
- Removed creating /dev/zero in the chroot jail on Solaris platform.
- Fixed detection of WSAECONNREFUSED Winsock error.
- Missing Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest added to Windows installer.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Home page: <a href="http://stunnel.mirt.net/"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">http://www.stunnel.org/</span></a><br>Download: <a href="ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/stunnel/"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/</span></a></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">3e640aa4c96861d10addba758b66e99e7c5aec8697764f2a59ca2268901b8e57</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Best regards,</p>
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