Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:30:14 -0400 (EDT) From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com> To: "mason-devel -- Deliduka, Bennet -- Bennet Deliduka" <bennet@together.net>, Subject: Mason 0.13.0 pre-announcement Good day, all, Mason 0.13.0 is getting close to release! I've been working with a small group to get Mason 0.13.0 ready for a number of months now. The code is back to a stable state and has a _bunch_ of new features and improvements (performance, masquerading, new protocols, new output format, fixes, sorting firewall by packet counts, Jens' new front-end... see the web site), but needs more testing before I can release it. That's where you come in... *smile* I'd love to hear some more feedback on the new version - praise and punishment gratefully accepted! Once I've merged some more changes for debian packaging, and cleaned up the remaining problems ("Bugs? What bugs?" *smile*) this will head out to the announce lists. I'd like it to be rock solid by then. That means it needs to be rock solid on more than the few systems I have available to me. I'd especially like to hear back from users with distributions other than RedHat 5.2/6.0 or architectures other than ix86 where I've done most of my development. I'd like to include a list of distributions where Mason has been known to work in the documentation. Many thanks for all your mail and suggestions. If I've failed to incorporate something you think is important, let me know. Special thanks to Rusty, Chris Brenton, Jeff Licquia, and Jens Knudsen for their special contributions. The current version can be downloaded from http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/mason/ Cheers, - Bill P.S. I included you in the mason-friends mailing list because you've expressed some interest in Mason in the past. If you'd prefer not to be part of this list or would like me to use a different email address, let me know. Future mailings should be very infrequent and normally just announcements of new versions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best accelerator for a computer running MS Windows is FREE and called gravity. (Courtesy of Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hosts, and ipfwadm2ipchains are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------