This is to announce the release of openssh-2.1.0, the first stable release of portable OpenSSH to incorporate support for the SSH2 protocol. The SSH2 protocol offers a number of advantages over the SSH1 protocol including standards compliance (SSH2 is on the IETF standards track[1]), improved security and operation without RSA (which is patented in some countries). The SSH2 support in OpenSSH has been developed by Markus Friedl, with support from the OpenBSD team. This is also the first version of the portable version of OpenSSH to offer built-in entropy collection. This removes the requirement for EGD on systems that lack a /dev/random driver. As a result, OpenSSH-2.1.0 now requires a recent version of OpenSSL[2] to compile (version 0.9.5 or later). NB. The portable version of OpenSSH is currently in the process of merging its webpages with the official OpenBSD project. Please use http://www.openssh.com/ from now on. Distribution files are also available from the mirrors listed at http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/MIRRORS.html Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html before reporting bugs. Patches, bug reports, developer and user queries are welcome on the mailing list (http://www.openssh.com/list.html). Regards, Damien Miller [1] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/secsh-charter.html [2] http://www.openssl.org/