Dear DeleGate users,

I inform you of the new release of DeleGate available as follows:

  SITE: ftp://ftp.delegate.org/pub/DeleGate/alpha/
  FILE: delegate8.0.0.tar.{gz,bz2}
  DATE: Sep 12 22:58 JST 2002
  TAR-SIZE: 3788800 bytes
  TAR-MD5:  bfd2540a4ff3ef021218a351f334cb7d

NOTE: DeleGate/8.0.X might be unstable in specification and implementation,
and introduce incompatible changes from 7.X and formers. See README.7-8
for more details.

[NEW]
 + CFI: (tentative)introduced filter option (Fname=[-p,][-s,][-w,]filter)
 + CFI: (tentative)introduced access control by /Email=foo@bar/ in certificate with FCL="-s,sslway -auth"
 + CFI: (tentative)introduced forwarding server certificate by HTTPCONF="add-rhead:Certificate:%C" (client cert. by HTTPCONF="add-qhead:Certificate:%c")
 + general: introduced REJECT="proto:dst:src" parameter
 + general: introduced "forbidden" and "unknown" MountOption
 + general: introduced error information into LOGFILE about non applicable route 
 + general: added the reason of reject into LOGFILE
 + porting/Win32: supported Load_average information (in http://-.-/-/)
 + porting/Win32: supported closeOnExec by SetHandleInfo(INHERIT)

[CHANGE]
 * HTTP: modified /-/* to be accessible only by RELIABLE hosts by default
 * general: modified the default RESOLV (come to be set detecting DNS and NIS)
 * general: modified RELIABLE (".localnet") to be narrower for class-A
 * SOCKS: socks has come to be tried before direct connection
 * FTP: modified default PASV port (to accept) to random number
 * general: shorten default TIMEOUT=dns,con,acc,lin (30sec to 10sec)
 + general: modified REMITTABLE="." to represent equivalent protocols
 + porting/Win32: modified to set DELETE_ON_CLOSE for tmpfile()
 + porting/Win32: modified to use "nul" for "/dev/null"
 + porting/Win32: modified to use WinSock2 by default (-WSAV:2.2)

[FIX]
 + general: fixed server-port open by IP-address of multi-homed host
 + general: fixed not to enter a duplicate entry into HOSTS cache
 + porting/Win32: fixed restart with -v by SIGHUP

Cheers,
Yutaka
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  @ @ Yutaka Sato <y.sato@delegate.org> http://www.delegate.org/y.sato/
 ( - ) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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