[Vpn-announce] Development update and new alpha release ...

[Matthew Grooms]

All,

     Things are moving along quite well. Most of the known bugs were 
fixed in this release which makes it a lot more usable. There are only a 
few items left on the todo list so expect to see a beta available within 
the next few weeks.

For a complete list of changes ...

http://www.shrew.net/vpn/changelog.php?ver=2.0.0-alpha-8

The new alpha can be had from here ...

http://www.shrew.net/vpn/download.php?name=vpn-client&vers=2.0.0-alpha-8

     The unix port of the ike daemon has seen lots of bug fixes and 
improvements. It now works very well on FreeBSD i386 and amd64 
installations. I have decided to port the Client and Site Manager 
applications using Trolltech QT which should allow it to be portable 
between BSD, Linux and OSX. It may even be worth using the QT port on 
windows if the binary ends up being small enough. I am rather fond of 
the fact that the entire distribution w/docs is still under 1MB.

More to come soon,

-Matthew