RNS β 0.3.12 Released, Important Security Fix

[markqvist]

This maintenance release includes a fix to the serious security flaw discussed here.

Please Note! Updating to RNS 0.3.12 will intentionally break backwards compatibility with all previous verstions for link establishment. It is recommended to upgrade all your systems to 0.3.12 as soon as possible.

Additionally, this release brings a range of small, but very useful improvements to reliability and user experience, along with a significant update to the documentation material.

Changes

• Fixed a serious security flaw in link establishment key exchanges
• Allow hot-plug of RNode devices
• Better detachment handler for TCP clients on shutdown
• Implemented better config directory path handling
• Clarifications and improvements to various documentation chapters
• Improved writing quality of documentation, courtesy of @huyndao
• Improved overall presentation of documentation and manual
• Improved reliability of data persistence in case of unexpected shutdowns or hardware crashes
• Added rnsd warning on start as client
• Fixed a rendering bug in the rnpath utility
• Added initial connection timeout configuration option to TCP Client interfaces
• Brought deprecated native python API calls up to date

Release Hashes

SHA256 74a4881ebf8d805bffb43efef91769b1cbb87affe56ac630355946c7484cffbf rns-0.3.12-py3-none-any.whl
SHA256 03429122b3b4133667632ba2404df7bbf57ea5df1b9c815d7608b1d59cd29a76 rnspure-0.3.12-py3-none-any.whl

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This discussion was created from the release RNS β 0.3.12.