inetutils-1.8 released

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

The GNU inetutils team is proud to present version 1.8 of the GNU
network utilities suite.  The GNU network utilities suite provides the
following tools: ftp(d), hostname, ifconfig, inetd, logger, ping, rcp,
rexec(d), rlogin(d), rsh(d), syslogd, talk(d), telnet(d), tftp(d),
traceroute, uucpd, and whois.

The following things are new in this release (please see the NEWS file
for all the details):

The `ftp' utility now accepts --active and --passive options.

`ifconfig' accepts the commands up, down, multicast, and allmulti to
be compatible with older ifconfig implementations.

A few more goodies, and of course, bug fixes...

Please send bug reports to address@hidden

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.8.tar.gz

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.8.tar.gz.sig

To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify inetutils-VERSION.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys D95A3C35

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

Many thanks to all the people who contributed to this release.  Happy
hacking!