Re: libssh 0.5 released

[Jan Willamowius <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to the whole team for all the work you put into this release!

-- 
Jan Willamowius, jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.gnugk.org/

Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
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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.
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> 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].
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> For the libssh team,
> 
> Aris
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> ChangeLog:
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>     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.
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> [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/
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