USAGI stable release

[KANDA Mitsuru / 神田 充]

A Happy New Year!

We are glad that we can announce the 3rd STABLE RELEASE of USAGI
(UniverSAl playGround for Ipv6)[1] 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/packages/>
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[2], KAME Project[3] and TAHI Project[4], 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.


References:

	[1] USAGI Project	<http://www.linux-ipv6.org>
	[2] WIDE Project	<http://www.wide.ad.jp>
	[3] KAME Project	<http://www.kame.net>
	[4] TAHI Project	<http://www.tahi.org>

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