Comment 2 for bug 119295

openssh (1:4.6p1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (closes: #395507, #397961, #420035). Important
    changes not previously backported to 4.3p2:
    - 4.4/4.4p1 (http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.4):
      + On portable OpenSSH, fix a GSSAPI authentication abort that could be
        used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms.
      + Implemented conditional configuration in sshd_config(5) using the
        "Match" directive. This allows some configuration options to be
        selectively overridden if specific criteria (based on user, group,
        hostname and/or address) are met. So far a useful subset of
        post-authentication options are supported and more are expected to
        be added in future releases.
      + Add support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange key agreement with a
        final hash of SHA256.
      + Added a "ForceCommand" directive to sshd_config(5). Similar to the
        command="..." option accepted in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, this forces
        the execution of the specified command regardless of what the user
        requested. This is very useful in conjunction with the new "Match"
        option.
      + Add a "PermitOpen" directive to sshd_config(5). This mirrors the
        permitopen="..." authorized_keys option, allowing fine-grained
        control over the port-forwardings that a user is allowed to
        establish.
      + Add optional logging of transactions to sftp-server(8).
      + ssh(1) will now record port numbers for hosts stored in
        ~/.ssh/known_hosts when a non-standard port has been requested
        (closes: #50612).
      + Add an "ExitOnForwardFailure" option to cause ssh(1) to exit (with a
        non-zero exit code) when requested port forwardings could not be
        established.
      + Extend sshd_config(5) "SubSystem" declarations to allow the
        specification of command-line arguments.
      + Replacement of all integer overflow susceptible invocations of
        malloc(3) and realloc(3) with overflow-checking equivalents.
      + Many manpage fixes and improvements.
      + Add optional support for OpenSSL hardware accelerators (engines),
        enabled using the --with-ssl-engine configure option.
      + Tokens in configuration files may be double-quoted in order to
        contain spaces (closes: #319639).
      + Move a debug() call out of a SIGCHLD handler, fixing a hang when the
        session exits very quickly (closes: #307890).
      + Fix some incorrect buffer allocation calculations (closes: #410599).
      + ssh-add doesn't ask for a passphrase if key file permissions are too
        liberal (closes: #103677).
      + Likewise, ssh doesn't ask either (closes: #99675).
    - 4.6/4.6p1 (http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.6):
      + sshd now allows the enabling and disabling of authentication methods
        on a per user, group, host and network basis via the Match directive
        in sshd_config.
      + Fixed an inconsistent check for a terminal when displaying scp
        progress meter (closes: #257524).
      + Fix "hang on exit" when background processes are running at the time
        of exit on a ttyful/login session (closes: #88337).
  * Update to current GSSAPI patch from
    http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh-4.6p1-gsskex-20070312.patch;
    install ChangeLog.gssapi.
  * Build the .deb --with-ssl-engine (closes: #408027, LP: #119295).
  * Use LSB functions in init scripts, and add an LSB-style header (partly
    from Ubuntu and partly thanks to Christian Perrier; closes: #389038).
  * Move init script start links to S16, move rc1 stop link to K84, and
    remove rc0 and rc6 stop links altogether (the last part from Ubuntu;
    closes: #122188).
  * Emit a slightly more informative message from the init script if
    /dev/null has somehow become not a character device (closes: #369964).
  * Belatedly build-depend on zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.2.3-1) (closes: #333447).
  * Merge from Ubuntu:
    - Build position-independent executables (only for debs, not for udebs)
      to take advantage of address space layout randomisation.
    - If building on Ubuntu, add /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin to
      the default path.
  * Use ${binary:Version} rather than ${Source-Version} in openssh-server ->
    openssh-client dependency.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:28:26 +0100