GNU SASL 0.1.0 alpha released

[Simon Josefsson]

Greetings,

this is to announce that GNU SASL 0.1.0 alpha has been released,
earlier than anticipated.  This release mark the beginning of a split
distribution of GNU SASL, where most of the core library is licensed
under the LGPL, and the remaining parts continue to be available under
the GPL.  This change is made in the hope of getting more help from
the community.  To help clear up potential misunderstandings about the
license change, let me quote part of the README file:

,----
| The GNU SASL library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
| License (LGPL).  The GNU project typically uses the GNU General Public
| License (GPL) for libraries, and not the LGPL, but for this project we
| decided that we would get more help from the community if we used the
| LGPL, as other free SASL implementations exists.  See also
| <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>.
|
| However, the command-line application and test suite (src/, and
| tests/) are licensed under the GNU General Public License license (see
| COPYING), and the documentation (doc/) is licensed under the GNU Free
| Documentation License (see COPYING.DOC).
`----

Find below your regular scheduled release announce message.

Thanks,
Simon

GNU SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and
Security Layer framework and a few common SASL mechanisms.  SASL is
used by network servers (e.g., IMAP, SMTP) to request authentication
from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/

Here are the compressed sources of the entire package:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz         (1.6MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz   (1.6MB)

Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz.sig

Here are the compressed sources of the LGPL library (also included above):
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz         (456KB)
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz   (456KB)

Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz.sig

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
  http://josefsson.org/autobuild/gsasl.html

Here are the MD5/SHA1 checksums:

80adc6e32357595ecadc891be5331483  gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz
c3b0028670fac2f1a457e2c88eb96978  libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz
f84762b70043d11bdc017e6da533eec9358e98e5  gsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz
67542b52bd37752ff24e554bf143ceffede0c468  libgsasl-0.1.0.tar.gz

Noteworthy changes (since 0.0.12, last version announced here):

* Changes in 0.1.0 (released 2004-04-16)

** The library re-licensed to LGPL and distributed as a separate package.
This means a fork of this NEWS file, all the entries below relate to
the combined work of earlier versions.  New entries above does not
document user visible changes for the library ("libgsasl"), for that
see NEWS in the lib/ sub-directory, which is also distributed as a
stand-alone package.

* Changes in 0.0.14 (released 2004-01-22)

** Moved all mechanism specific code into sub-directories of lib/.
Each backend is built into its own library (e.g., libgsasl-plain.so),
to facilitate future possible use of dlopen to dynamically load
backends.

** Moved compatibility files (getopt*) to gl/, and added more (strdup*).

* Changes in 0.0.13 (released 2004-01-17)

** Nettle (the crypto functionality, crypto/) has been updated.
This fixes two portability issues, the new code should work on
platforms that doesn't have inttypes.h and alloca.