[Announce] Announce: strongswan-4.2.4 released

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi,

The latest strongSwan 4.2.4 release offers the following new features:

- Completed ip pool --status and ip pool --leases statistics functions.
   For an overview of all options type "ipsec pool --help"

- "ipsec statusall" now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
   the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.

- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
   19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.

   http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults42/openssl/ike-alg-ecp-high/

   http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults42/openssl/ike-alg-ecp-low/

- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using X.509
   certificates with elliptic curve keys.

   http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults42/openssl/ecdsa-certs/

And here two bug fixes:

- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused charon threads to close the
   file descriptors of the stroke socket of another thread, causing
   the loss of stroke packets during configuration uploads.

- ESP sequence numbers are now correctly migrated in IPsec SA updates
   handled by MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.

The new release can be downloaded from

   http://www.strongswan.org/

Best regards

Martin Willi & Andreas Steffen

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Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution!                www.strongswan.org
Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
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