* New upstream release (LP: #535029). - After a transition period of about 10 years, this release disables SSH protocol 1 by default. Clients and servers that need to use the legacy protocol must explicitly enable it in ssh_config / sshd_config or on the command-line. - Remove the libsectok/OpenSC-based smartcard code and add support for PKCS#11 tokens. This support is enabled by default in the Debian packaging, since it now doesn't involve additional library dependencies (closes: #231472, LP: #16918). - Add support for certificate authentication of users and hosts using a new, minimal OpenSSH certificate format (closes: #482806). - Added a 'netcat mode' to ssh(1): "ssh -W host:port ...". - Add the ability to revoke keys in sshd(8) and ssh(1). (For the Debian package, this overlaps with the key blacklisting facility added in openssh 1:4.7p1-9, but with different file formats and slightly different scopes; for the moment, I've roughly merged the two.) - Various multiplexing improvements, including support for requesting port-forwardings via the multiplex protocol (closes: #360151). - Allow setting an explicit umask on the sftp-server(8) commandline to override whatever default the user has (closes: #496843). - Many sftp client improvements, including tab-completion, more options, and recursive transfer support for get/put (LP: #33378). The old mget/mput commands never worked properly and have been removed (closes: #270399, #428082). - Do not prompt for a passphrase if we fail to open a keyfile, and log the reason why the open failed to debug (closes: #431538). - Prevent sftp from crashing when given a "-" without a command. Also, allow whitespace to follow a "-" (closes: #531561).
* Fix 'debian/rules quilt-setup' to avoid writing .orig files if some patches apply with offsets. * Include debian/ssh-askpass-gnome.png in the Debian tarball now that we're using a source format that permits this, rather than messing around with uudecode. * Drop compatibility with the old gssapi mechanism used in ssh-krb5 << 3.8.1p1-1. Simon Wilkinson refused this patch since the old gssapi mechanism was removed due to a serious security hole, and since these versions of ssh-krb5 are no longer security-supported by Debian I don't think there's any point keeping client compatibility for them. * Fix substitution of ETC_PAM_D_SSH, following the rename in 1:4.7p1-4. * Hardcode the location of xauth to /usr/bin/xauth rather than /usr/bin/X11/xauth (thanks, Aron Griffis; closes: #575725, LP: #8440). xauth no longer depends on x11-common, so we're no longer guaranteed to have the /usr/bin/X11 symlink available. I was taking advantage of the /usr/bin/X11 symlink to smooth X's move to /usr/bin, but this is far enough in the past now that it's probably safe to just use /usr/bin. * Remove SSHD_OOM_ADJUST configuration. sshd now unconditionally makes itself non-OOM-killable, and doesn't require configuration to avoid log spam in virtualisation containers (closes: #555625). * Drop Debian-specific removal of OpenSSL version check. Upstream ignores the two patchlevel nybbles now, which is sufficient to address the original reason this change was introduced, and it appears that any change in the major/minor/fix nybbles would involve a new libssl package name. (We'd still lose if the status nybble were ever changed, but that would mean somebody had packaged a development/beta version rather than a proper release, which doesn't appear to be normal practice.) * Drop most of our "LogLevel SILENT" (-qq) patch. This was originally introduced to match the behaviour of non-free SSH, in which -q does not suppress fatal errors, but matching the behaviour of OpenSSH upstream is much more important nowadays. We no longer document that -q does not suppress fatal errors (closes: #280609). Migrate "LogLevel SILENT" to "LogLevel QUIET" in sshd_config on upgrade. * Policy version 3.8.4: - Add a Homepage field.