USAGI Project: Announcement of the 3rd STABLE Release

We are glad that we can announce the 3rd STABLE RELEASE of USAGI (UniverSAl playGround for Ipv6) product on January 1st, 2002. On this release, we provide ipv6 enhanced kernel (based on linux-2.2.20 and/or linux-2.4.13) and basic IPv6 libraries and applications.

The improved features are listed below.

ICMPv6 Node Information Queries
Privacy Extensions (RFC 3041)(kernel-2.4 only)
IPv6 khttpd
Better source address selection
Per-device statistics for SNMP
IPv4/IPv6 socket binding on the same port
Dropping IPv6 packets with malicious address(es)
Enabling default route when IPv6 forwarding is enabled
Improving SO_REUSEADDR behavior
Fixing bugs in NDP(Neighbor Discovery Protocol)
Fixing bugs in Stateless Address Auto-configuration
Catching up and implementing RFC2553 / RFC2553bis APIs including IPV6_V6ONLY socket option
Catching up and implementing RFC2292 / RFC2292bis APIs
Making many basic applications IPv6 ready.

You can get our source codes from the following URL. ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/stable/kit/

We also provide our code in the form divided into the patch against the main-line kernel and the tool. ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/stable/splitted/

We plan to provide the binary packages for some distributions. They will appear under ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/stable/package/ within several weeks.

We announce latest information via web. Please check our web site http://www.linux-ipv6.org.

We also manage the mailing list for USAGI users. If you have questions, please join the mailing list. Comments and advises are also welcome on that mailing list. Please visit http://www.linux-ipv6.org/ml/ for further information.

Thanks.

About USAGI Project:

The USAGI Project is managed by volunteers and aims to provide better IPv6 environment on Linux freely. We are tightly collaborating with WIDE Project, KAME Project and TAHI Project, and trying improving Linux kernel, IPv6 related libraries and IPv6 applications. Our products are released every two weeks and stable release several times a year. Please check our web site http://www.linux-ipv6.org for the latest detailed information.