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@mkj mkj released this 22 Oct 15:01

Download tarballs from
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/releases/dropbear-2024.86.tar.bz2 or
https://dropbear.nl/mirror/releases/dropbear-2024.86.tar.bz2
The tarball is reproducible from git with release.sh

  • Fix failure on concurrent channel open/close.
    This was a regression in 2022.82, reported by rsflo in Github #321.
    failed assertion in common-channel.c:705: !channel->sent_close

  • Print remote host after "Login attempt for nonexistent user" log entry to
    assist fail2ban. Fix from MichaIng, the format changed in 2020.79

  • Dropbear now exits with exit status 0 on SIGINT/SIGTERM. This is a more
    graceful behaviour for "systemctl stop dropbear".
    Reported by Ninad Palsule

  • New IDENT_VERSION_PART config allows customising some of the SSH version
    string. From Marius Dinu

  • Fix building SK_KEYS with just one of ECDSA or ED25519
    From Marius Dinu

  • Fix dbclient "-m help" and "-c help" without a hostname.
    Patch from Darren Tucker

  • Remove fprintf/gettimeofday from sigchld handler when running with
    verbose trace enabled.

  • Improved configure help output, from Mikel Olasagasti Uranga

  • Compile fix for GNU Hurd, from Guilhem Moulin

  • Support running test_aslr without venv, from Guilhem Moulin

  • Compilation fixes for older compilers, and better build tests

  • Update some test infrastructure versions of python packages,
    github actions, and github runner OSes