[Kde-announce-apps] kvpnc 0.8.3

[Christoph Thielecke]

Name: kvpnc
Version: 0.8.3
Type: Networking Tool
Depend: KDE 3.3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://home.gna.org/kvpnc/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12570

Description:
 KVpnc is a KDE Desktop Environment frontend for
various vpn clients. It supports Cisco VPN (vpnc),
IPSec (FreeS/WAN (OpenS/WAN), racoon), PPTP
(pptpclient) and OpenVPN.

You need libgcrypt
(http://www.g10code.com/p-libgcrypt.html).
Crypto++ is now obsolete. One of them is
additional needed: vpnc, freeswan, ipsec-tools,
pptpclient, openvpn.

Note: translators still welcome. Kvpnc is
currently translated to Bulgarian, Catalan,
Chinese, Dutch, German, Hungary, Italian, French,
Portuguese Brazilian, Polish, Russian, Slovak,
Spanish and Svedish.

* vpnc is here:
http://www.rockerssoft.org/apt/fedora/2/en/i386/RPMS.rockerssoft/
+ vpnc is here:
ftp://ftp.blackpanther.hu/blackPanther.OS/All/v5.1/media1/vpnc-0.3.2-3bP.i586.rpm

Changelog:
 This is the next major release, so the list is
long
bugfixes:
-info that process was killed is shown - multiple
times fixed
- key shortcut menu entry fixed
- more ui freezes eleminated
- remote network storing fixed (pptp, OpenVPN)
- crash at preferencesdialog after deleting
profile in it fixed
- retrieving username and password from
enterpassworddialog fixed
- output for connection status check fixed if
userdefined ip address is used

new features:
- wizard for creating new profile added
- support for TLS remote host for openvpn added
- support for pushed options (dns, domain) for
openvpn added
- ping IP address after connect (obsolete) removed
- use userdefinied ip address for connection
status check added
- delay for auto reconnect added
- patch for splitrules applied (thanks to Tilman
Vogel)
- auth retry after failed password for openvpn
added
- keep default route for pptp added
- ike exchange mode for racoon added
- option for dont save username added
- openvpn config file import added
- new dcop functions 
- doImportOpenvpnConfig
- createNewProfileWithWizard
- tls auth option for openvpn added
- http proxy support for openvpn added
- userdefinied ciphers for openvpn added
-redirect gateway option for openvpn added
- automatically adding ppp-compress-18 alias to
/etc/modprobe.conf
- automatically try to load ppp_mppe instead of
ppp-compress-18
- automatically detection of mppe style
- toolinfo now collects info about pptp
- option for debug level of pptp added
- more tooltips added
- information of deamons now shown in
preferencesdialog
- Swedish andbook added. Thanks to Daniel Nylander
who has translate it.