john-users - Re: JtR 1.7.3.4

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:39:29 +0200
From: rembrandt <rembrandt@...erlin.de>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR 1.7.3.4

> Hi,
> 
> I've released John the Ripper 1.7.3.4, along with an update of the jumbo
> patch to this new version (a mere update, no new stuff yet).  Besides
> adding proper links to these new releases, I've also cleaned up the JtR
> homepage a bit further:
> 
> http://www.openwall.com/john/
> 
> The changes made since 1.7.3.1 are desirable primarily for packages of
> JtR, such as for *BSD "ports" and Linux distributions:
> 
> * "make check" has been implemented (for Unix-like systems only).
> 
> * The "--test" option will now take an optional argument - the duration
> of each benchmark in seconds.
> 
> * Section .note.GNU-stack has been added to all assembly files to avoid
> the stack area unnecessarily being made executable on Linux systems that
> use this mechanism.
> 
> * Some very minor bugs that did not affect normal operation have been fixed.
> 
> * Some unimportant compiler warnings have been fixed, a source code
> comment has been made more verbose and more complete.
> 
> Since version 1.7.3.1 has existed for a year and proved to be reliable,
> and since the changes between 1.7.3.1 and 1.7.3.4 are so minor, 1.7.3.4
> is being declared the new "stable" release.
> 
> Alexander

YAY! :-)
Thus there's no exception anymore to not include 1.7.3.x to the OpenBSD
ports (I offen faced the argument "it is not the stable version") :-D

Kind regards,
Rembrandt