Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.0

Damien Miller
2012-02-13T06:51:10Z

Hi,

OpenSSH 6.0 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
on as many platforms and systems as possible. This release contains a
couple of new features and changes and bug fixes. Testing of the new
sandboxed privilege separation mode (see below) would be particularly
appreciated.

Snapshot releases for portable OpenSSH are available from
http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/

The OpenBSD version is available in CVS HEAD:
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

Portable OpenSSH is also available via anonymous CVS using the
instructions at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html#cvs or
via Mercurial at http://hg.mindrot.org/openssh

Running the regression tests supplied with Portable OpenSSH does not
require installation and is a simply:

$ ./configure && make tests

Live testing on suitable non-production systems is also
appreciated. Please send reports of success or failure to
openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.

Below is a summary of changes. More detail may be found in the ChangeLog
in the portable OpenSSH tarballs.

Thanks to the many people who contributed to this release.

-------------------------------

Features:

 * ssh-keygen(1): Add optional checkpoints for moduli screening
 * ssh-add(1): new -k option to load plain keys (skipping certificates)
 * sshd(8): Add wildcard support to PermitOpen, allowing things like
   "PermitOpen localhost:*".  bz #1857
 * ssh(1): support for cancelling local and remote port forwards via the
   multiplex socket. Use ssh -O cancel -L xx:xx:xx -R yy:yy:yy user at
host"
   to request the cancellation of the specified forwardings
 * support cancellation of local/dynamic forwardings from ~C commandline

Bugfixes:

 * ssh(1): ensure that $DISPLAY contains only valid characters before
   using it to extract xauth data so that it can't be used to play local
   shell metacharacter games.
 * ssh(1): unbreak remote portforwarding with dynamic allocated listen ports
 * scp(1): uppress adding '--' to remote commandlines when the first
   argument does not start with '-'. saves breakage on some
   difficult-to-upgrade embedded/router platforms
 * ssh(1)/sshd(8): fix typo in IPQoS parsing: there is no "AF14"
class,
   but there is an "AF21" class
 * ssh(1)/sshd(8): do not permit SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST/ACCEPT during
   rekeying
 * ssh(1): skip attempting to create ~/.ssh when -F is passed
 * sshd(8): unbreak stdio forwarding when ControlPersist is in use; bz#1943
 * sshd(1): send tty break to pty master instead of (probably already
     closed) slave side; bz#1859
 * sftp(1): silence error spam for "ls */foo" in directory with files;
   bz#1683
 * Fixed a number of memory and file descriptor leaks

Portable OpenSSH:

 * ssh-keygen(1): don't fail in -A on platforms that don't support ECC
 * Add optional support for LDNS, a BSD licensed DNS resolver library
   which supports DNSSEC

Reporting Bugs:
==============
- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
  Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh at openssh.com

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