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OpenSSH 5.4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-secret dept.

HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"

3 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. SFTP improvements by Ponga · · Score: 3, Informative

    FTFA:

    * Many improvements to the sftp(1) client, many of which were implemented by Carlos Silva through the Google Summer of Code program:...

    ... - Add recursive transfer support for get/put and on the commandline
    (Alas!!)

    Whole host of other improvements and bugfixes; give it read if SSH is pertinent to your environment....

  2. Re:New, Problematic Protocol Introduced by OttoM · · Score: 3, Informative

    No X.509 certificates are used. Please study the changes before you comment based on false assumptions. Also, the agent protocol exists for quite a while now, it is not new.

  3. Thank you Open SSH devs by overlordofmu · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am reading this article and posting to it through a ssh tunnel using OpenSSH on a Gentoo Linux server at home and putty.exe on a work laptop running XP Pro at work.

    Firefox sees it as a SOCKS 5 proxy at localhost. The tricky part was setting the config key in Firefox called "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true. (Navigate to about:config and filter for "proxy" to find this setting quickly). The corporate network admins use bogus DNS resolution as a firewall.

    I love you, OpenSSH devs. I sincerely thank you.