VERSION 2.1_rc5v2.1_rc5

Updated ChangeLog.

Cleaned up start menu shortcuts in the Windows
installer.

Make sure that the uninstaller deletes SAMPCONF
files.

Minor uninstaller fixes to prevent files from
being left behind after uninstall.

Updated Windows notes.


git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@2660 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5

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 $Id$
 
+2008.01.23 -- Version 2.1_rc5
+
+* Fixed Win2K TAP driver bug that was introduced by Vista fixes,
+  incremented driver version to 9.4.
+
+* Windows build system changes:
+
+  Incremented included OpenSSL version to openssl-0.9.7m.
+
+  Updated openssl.patch for openssl-0.9.7m and added some
+  brief usage comments to the head of the patch.
+
+  Added build-pkcs11-helper.sh for building the pkcs11-helper
+  library.
+
+  Integrated inclusion of pkcs11-helper into Windows build
+  system.
+
+  Upgraded TAP build scripts to use WDK 6001.17121
+  (Windows 2008 Server pre-RTM).
+
+* Windows installer changes:
+
+  Clean up the start menu folder.
+
+  Allow for a site-specific sample configuration file and keys
+  to be included in a custom installer (see SAMPCONF macros
+  in settings.in). 
+
+  New icon (temporary).
+
+* Added "forget-passwords" command to the management interface
+  (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Added --management-signal option to signal SIGUSR1 when the
+  management interface disconnects (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Modified command line and config file parser to allow
+  quoted strings using single quotes ('') (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Use pkcs11-helper as external library, can be downloaded from
+  https://www.opensc-project.org/pkcs11-helper (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Fixed interim memory growth issue in TCP connect loop where
+  "TCP: connect to %s failed, will try again in %d seconds: %s"
+  is output.
+
+* Fixed bug in epoll driver in event.c, where the lack of a
+  handler for EPOLLHUP could cause 99% CPU usage.
+
+* Defined ALLOW_NON_CBC_CIPHERS for people who don't
+  want to use a CBC cipher for OpenVPN's data channel.
+
+* Added PLUGIN_LIBDIR preprocessor string to prepend a default
+  plugin directory to the dlopen search list when the user
+  specifies the basename of the plugin only (Marius Tomaschewski).
+
+* Rewrote extract_x509_field and modified COMMON_NAME_CHAR_CLASS
+  to allow forward slash characters ("/") in the X509 common name
+  (Pavel Shramov).
+
+* Allow OpenVPN to run completely unprivileged under Linux
+  by allowing openvpn --mktun to be used with --user and --group
+  to set the UID/GID of the tun device node.  Also added --iproute
+  option to allow an alternative command to be executed in place
+  of the default iproute2 command (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Fixed --disable-iproute2 in ./configure to actually disable
+  iproute2 usage (Alon Bar-Lev).
+
+* Added --management-forget-disconnect option -- forget
+  passwords when management session disconnects (Alon Bar-Lev).
+	
 2007.04.25 -- Version 2.1_rc4
 
 * Worked out remaining issues with TAP driver signing