[Kde-announce-apps] kvpnc 0.8.8

[Christoph Thielecke]

Name: kvpnc
Version: 0.8.8
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,
Japanese, 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:
 Bugfixes:
- connection timeout fixed (cisco)
- vpnc-script fix for fc6
- tool detection fixed
- openvpn import fixes
- crash at failed port binding for openvpn
management port fixed
- vpnc detection fixed
- connection status check fixed
- racoon fixes
- openswan fixes
- various small fixes
- menu entry for donate money now works if run via
kdesu
- certificate import fixes
- crash on connecting state of racoon fixed

New features:

credits for swedish, japanese translators,
artworker and bughunter added
+ on timeout now the user got hints on a
messagebox
+ on profile rename the user can enter new name
again after failed because illegal chars entered
+ if peer uses another cipher and reports that,
kvpnc automaticlly fix it (openvpn)
+ cert and psk settings are spit in seperate
widgets
+ preferences dialog reworked for smaller size
+ http proxy is now splitted from openvpn settings
+ pkcs11-tool added to helper programs
+ user data can now entered at wizard (cisco)
+ option to change background color for debug
console added
+ kvpnc now only asks for passphrase if private
key is protected with a passphrase
+ openvpn import now asks for username and
password if auth is requested in import file
+ if peer uses another tunnel type (tun/tap) and
reports that, kvpnc automaticlly fix it (openvpn)
+ if peer uses another authentication algorithm
and reports that, kvpnc automaticlly fix it
(openvpn)
+ better freeswan/openswan/strongswan detection
+ kvpnc now shows the ipsec type (openswan,
strongswan, freeswan)
+ float option for allowing change of peers ip
address added (openvpn)
+ default authentication algorithm is now set to
MD5 (openvpn)
+ option for hide at startup added
+ automatic backup of kvpnc config added
+ automatic restore of network routes, resolv.conf
and config added
+ smartcard support added
+ options for authentication and encryption
algorithms added (racoon)
+ l2tp support added
+ menu entry for reporting bugs added
+ feedback mail report added
+ option for authentication algorithm added
(openvpn)
+ option for killing still running racoon (if not
from kvpnc started) added
+ option for killing still running l2tpd (if not
from kvpnc started) added
+ default route option now moved to network -
route
+ dcop functions added:
  void doSendFeedbackMail()
  QStringList getProfileTypes()
+ iptables support for racoon added
+ nt domain name for authentication added (pptp)