Fri Mar 23 10:49:17 GMT 2001
Version 1.0.4 released. A small patch from Rob Brown which avoids the server leaving zombie processes lying around in some situations.
Fri Mar 2 11:04:17 GMT 2001
Version 1.0.3 released. This version contains patches to make the full server work correctly on OpenBSD. (Thanks to Azazel).
Wed Feb 28 16:40:11 GMT 2001
Version 1.0.2 released. This contains some necessary bugfixes over the 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 releases. Patch to this version if you had problems with those releases. (Thanks to Rob Brown for these fixes).
Tue Feb 27 10:43:44 GMT 2001
Version 1.0.1 released. I've done next to nothing for this release, but Rob Brown has been at it again, producing a beautiful series of bug fixes and enhancements. In no particular order: Avoid hard coded "." and ".." entries in directories. Logging is taint-clean in Perl 5.005. Don't log out-of-band data into client log. Added ident (RFC 1413) logging for increased security. Added "time zone" configuration file option so that dates and times can appear in zones other than GMT. Allow parent daemon to be restarted cleanly even if there are child daemons still left over from the previous process. Sending SIGHUP causes the parent process to cleanly restart, reload configuration files and reopen client logging file (this even works if the daemon has bound to a low-numbered port and dropped priviledges).
Thu Feb 22 17:14:22 GMT 2001
Version 1.0.0 released! Go and read our press release.
Fixed for this release by Rich: STOU now works. Listing files by wildcard now works in the "in memory" personality. Added STOR/STOU/APPE tests. Added LIST/NLST tests. Added SITE IDLE test. Added SITE VERSION test. Added REST test. Added RNFR/RNTO test. Added ABOR test. Added "no authentication commands" configuration option.
Fixed for this release by Rob Brown: "Client logging" feature. Distinguish between sending TERM to the daemonized process and to the child processes. Implement ABOR-ted transfers using SIGURG. Added post_bind_hook. DoS attack avoided by reseting the alarm after read and before write. Abort if configuration file is missing. Added transfer_hook.
Sun Feb 18 23:37:14 GMT 2001
Version 0.9.9 released. This fixes a nasty bug with uploading ASCII files. Also added: A fairly complete test suite [Rich]. A cute "in memory" personality [Rich]. Catch errors on ASCII STOR (upload) and report to the client [Rob Brown]. Eliminate the idle transfer DoS bug [Rob Brown]. Never reset the ALRM catcher to inifinity (alarm 0) [Rob Brown]. Pull all clients that are idle even mid-transfer [Rob Brown]. Avoid timing out clients that are actively transfering [Rob Brown]. Missing files added to the MANIFEST [Rich].
Thu Feb 15 16:21:04 GMT 2001
Version 0.9.8 released. In no particular order: Port numbers opened by the FTP server in passive mode can be configured in ranges from the configuration file (this should improve things if you run a firewall in front of your server). Removed extra spaces in "Entering Passive Mode" string. Code tidying. Add "print" method to IO::Blob - you can now upload ASCII files to the database. In STOR, error messages actually reflect error conditions. Fixed calls to syswrite(). Incomplete three-way TCP handshake no longer crashes the server. Add -P option on the command line to supply name of pidfile. Delete pidfile when main process dies. (Thanks to Rob Brown at about-inc.com for the bulk of these fixes).
Sat Feb 3 23:25:46 GMT 2001
Version 0.9.6 released. Fixed a bug with LISTing files in subdirectories (thanks to all @about-inc.com).
Fri Dec 22 13:04:42 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.5
released. I fixed a raft of portability problems
on Solaris 2.7. However, there remains a problem
that the Perl version I have on Solaris doesn't
call initgroups(3) correctly when
the process GID is changed, and
hence doesn't drop privileges properly. This is
beyond my experience to fix -- seemingly requiring
deep changes to Perl itself? It also works OK on
Linux and *BSD, and that's all that really concerns
me anyway.
Sat Dec 9 17:56:34 GMT 2000
I presented a short speech about Net::FTPServer to the Greater London Linux User Group. You can read it here.
Fri Dec 8 23:50:14 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.4 released. Fixed a few problems with older versions of PostgreSQL (versions <= 6.3).
Sat Nov 25 13:39:52 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.3 released. Fixed compatibility problems with ncftp versions 2.4.3 and 3.0.2. Mostly fixed MLST/MLSD commands. Added --help option. Fixed -V option.
Fri Nov 3 18:14:05 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.2 released. Bug fixes and clean ups.
Fri Nov 3 13:38:14 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.1 released. Many documentation updates. Added easily customizable SITE commands.
Thu Nov 2 18:39:30 GMT 2000
Version 0.9.0 released. Added a anonymous read-only FTP personality. With this personality, the FTP server contains no code which could be used to write, create directories, delete files, etc. The FTP server will also only accept anonymous logins, and contains no code for checking /etc/passwd or PAM. This is a candidate for a 1.0.0 release. Please download it, play with it, and send me your feedback.
Thu Nov 2 18:09:12 GMT 2000
Version 0.8.4 released. Added the missing database schema.
Thu Nov 2 18:01:52 GMT 2000
Version 0.8.3 released. This version has a fairly complete example database back-end for those that wanted to see that.
Thu Nov 2 14:10:21 GMT 2000
Version 0.8.0 released. This is a highly experimental release which adds a partially implemented database back-end. This is just for people interested in database back-ends to the FTP server.
Wed Oct 25 10:31:45 BST 2000
Version 0.7.2 released. This fixes a problem when the FTP server is run from inetd (thanks again to Matthew Gabeler-Lee).
Tue Oct 24 17:28:06 BST 2000
Version 0.7.1 released. This is a stable, high quality release. Several important bug fixes, including an important fix to access control rules (thanks to Matthew Gabeler-Lee for pointing this one out).
Wed Sep 27 16:13:27 BST 2000
Version 0.6.1 released. This release is highly experimental, but I did all of 5 minutes of testing and it appeared to work for me. Changes: bug fixes and enhancements too numerous to mention. Major change: separated out the file access back-end to improve security (our database version now no longer contains redundant file access code). Included a few more documents.
Thu Sep 14 11:04:33 BST 2000
Version 0.5.1 released. This fixes a problem in Makefile.PL which prevented the program from building on some platforms.
Wed Sep 13 19:08:41 BST 2000
Version 0.5.0 released. This major release incorporates support for both IP-based and IP-less virtual hosting.
Tue Sep 12 13:47:25 BST 2000
Version 0.4.5 released. This version contains a few modifications for submission to CPAN.
Fri Sep 8 11:11:54 BST 2000
Version 0.4.4 released (first public release).