Software Update: OpenSSH 5.3

On Thursday, version 5.3 of OpenSSH was released, a release that also marks the 10-year anniversary. OpenSSH encrypts network traffic to prevent eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network attacks. In addition, it includes the ability to set up so-called secure tunnels and supports various authentication methods. OpenSSH is primarily developed for OpenBSD, users of other operating systems can here justly. The changelog for this release looks like this:

General Bug Fixes:

• Do not limit home directory paths to 256 characters. bz#1615
• Several minor documentation and correctness fixes.

Portable OpenSSH Bug Fixes:

• This release removes for support for very old versions of Cygwin and for Windows 95/98/ME
• Move the deletion of PAM credentials on logout to after the session close. bz#1534
• Make PrintLastLog work on AIX. bz#1595
• Avoid compile errors on FreeBSD from conflicts in glob.h. bz#1634
• Delay dropping of root privileges on AIX so chroot and pam_open_session work correctly. bz#1249 and bz#1567
• Increase client IO buffer on Cygwin to 64K, realizing a significant performance improvement.
• Roll back bz#1241 (better handling for expired passwords on Tru64). The change broke password logins on some configurations.
• Accept ENOSYS as a fallback error when attempting atomic rename(). bz#1535
• Fix passing of variables to recursive make(1) invocations on Solaris. bz#1505
• Skip the tcgetattr call on the pty master on Solaris, since it never succeeds and can hang if large amounts of data is sent to the slave (eg a copy-paste). bz#1528
• Fix detection of krb5-config. bz#1639
• Fix test for server-assigned remote forwarding port for non-root users. bz#1578
• Fix detection of libresolv on OSX 10.6.