25 January 2006

NuFW 1.1.3, FreeBSD and MacOSX support and connections expiration

This release brings up quite a few nice features :
 nutcpc, the console client now works on freeBSD and MacOS X.
 expiration of connections can now be done by using libconntrack
 preliminary support for time period is available

Full [impressive] changelog :
 nutrackd : PostGreSQL support
 Fixes in the PostGreSQL log module (removed the useless server_port variable, fixed a very stupid strlen bug on port)
 nufw|nuauth : expiration of connection is now possible
 nufw : new switch -C to handle conntrack destroy event by sending a message to nuauth. This is mandatory for connection expiration system.
 nuauth : handle nufw destroy message
 nufw : restore compilation of nufw in libipq mode
 nuauth : introduce a pool of threads for user session logging
 nuauth : fix a stupid but critical bug on module reloading
 nuauth : introduce nuauth_number_session_loggers to specify the number of threads in the user session logging pool
 nuauth : change type of limited_connection_handler to suppress compilation warning
 nuauth : new hook for time period definition
 plaintext : add period check
 plaintext : add example for time period creation (define ’5x8’ period)
 nutcpc : working on freebsd :-) (but mono user for the moment)
 nutcpc : working on Mac OS X :-) (but mono user for the moment)
 nuauth : user connect policy (see config file for detail)
 libnuclient : fix typo that could cause a hang
 nuauth : a user session duration can now be set