libssh 0.5 released

[Aris Adamantiadis <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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We are proud to finally announce libssh in version 0.5. It took a lot of
time to get this version stable and out. We have rewritten huge parts of
the libssh internals to be able to be completely async in future. The
whole network design passed from synchronous calls to an event-based
asynchronous system. We also welcomed Milo as a new developer in our
team. He is working on the server support and ssh_pki, which will
provide a complete API to manipulate SSH keys. We also have to thank
Oliver Stöneberg who tested 0.5 over the last months and sent a big
amount of patches, and Eric Bischoff who authored many pages of the
tutorial.

If you are new to libssh read The Tutorial[1] how to get started. Please
join our mailing list[2] or visit our irc channel[3] if you have questions.

You can download libssh 0.5.0 here[4]. For Windows binaries we suggest
to use our MSVC build [5] or the MSVC and MinGW binaries from the KDE
Windows project here [6]. Packages for Fedora and for openSUSE are
available here [7].

For the libssh team,

Aris

ChangeLog:

    Added ssh_ prefix to all public functions.
    Added complete Windows support.
    Added improved server support.
    Added unit tests for a lot of functions.
    Added asynchronous service request.
    Added a multiplatform ssh_getpass() function.
    Added a tutorial.
    Added a lot of documentation.
    Fixed a lot of bugs.
    Fixed several memory leaks.


[1] http://api.libssh.org/master/libssh_tutorial.html
[2] http://www.libssh.org/communication/
[3] irc://irc.freenode.net/libssh
[4] http://www.libssh.org/files/0.5/libssh-0.5.0.tar.gz
[5] http://www.libssh.org/files/win32/0.5/
[6] http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/
[7]
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/synchronization:/files/