* [ANN] Guile-SSH 0.12.0 released
@ 2020-01-05 17:13 Artyom V. Poptsov
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From: Artyom V. Poptsov @ 2020-01-05 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello Guilers,
I'm pleased to announce Guile-SSH 0.12.0:
https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/releases/tag/v0.12.0
Unfortunately I don't have my FTP server running at the moment, so I
will not publish the current release with my GPG signature there;
instead I'm attaching the archive and the signature to this email in
hope that it will pass mailing list checks. ;-)
This version includes stateless RREPL API, some preparations for Guile
2.9/3.0 release, cross-compilation support, new GSSAPI authentication
procedure and various bug-fixes and improvements -- full list of
user-visible changes can be found below.
* What is Guile-SSH?
Guile-SSH is a library that provides access to the SSH protocol[2] for
programs written in GNU Guile interpreter. It is built upon the
libssh[3] library.
Currently Guile-SSH provides the following features:
- The API that is sufficient for building of standalone SSH clients and
servers, or for embedding client/server functionality in your lispy Scheme
applications.
- Several authentication methods are supported, including password
authentication, public key and SSH agent authentication methods.
- Key management procedures: you can make key pairs, read keys from files,
get key hashes, get public keys from private keys etc. DSS, RSA, RSA1 and
ECDSA (by means of OpenSSL) are supported.
- Port forwarding procedures and high-level API for creating of SSH tunnels.
- Distributed forms ('dist-map', 'distribute', ...) that allow to spread the
evaluation of Scheme code between remote hosts. Or you can just connect
to a remote REPL from Scheme using 'with-ssh' procedure and evaluate some
expressions. No special server needed on the remote side, just an SSH
daemon and GNU Guile installed!
- SFTP client API allows you to read and write remote files over the SSH
protocol right from the Scheme code.
- Remote popen API that allows you to make either input, output or
bidirectional pipes to remote processes.
- Detailed documentation in Texinfo format with examples included, even more
examples in 'examples' directory.
* The list of user-visible changes
Here's the list of user-visible changes (an excerpt from NEWS file):
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* Changes in version 0.12.0
** API change: Implement new version of the RREPL API
As proposed by Ludovic Courtès, this Guile-SSH version includes an
implementation of a new stateless RREPL.
** New module: (ssh agent)
The module contains procedures for interaction with running SSH agent
instances.
** Prepare for Guile 2.9/3.0
Allow to build Guile-SSH with Guile versions 2.0, 2.2, 3.0.
Pull request has been made by Ludovic Courtès in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/pull/14>
** Remove bundled SRFI-64
This test framework is included in Guile since version 2.0.12.
This request has been made by Ludovic Courtès in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/pull/14>
** Cross-compilation support
Now Guile-SSH should allow cross-compilation.
Pull request has been made by Mathieu Othacehe in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/pull/16>
** Changes in (ssh auth):
*** New procedure 'userauth-gssapi!'
The procedure allows to authenticate through GSSAPI (Generic Security
Services Application Program Interface.)
Pull request has been made by Lars-Dominik Braun in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/pull/15>
** Generic compilation fixes
Fix some warnings that surface during compilation and linking.
** Bugfixes
*** Fix a segfault in 'libguile-ssh'
The library would always fail with segmentation fault error when an
application tried to free a closed channel. Now it should be fixed.
Reported by Michael Bowcutt <mbowcutt@case.edu> in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/issues/8>
and Njagi Mwaniki in a personal email.
*** Fix building with libssh 0.8
The 'libguile-ssh' library would fail to build due to missing
'libssh_threads' library that was removed libssh 0.8. Now 'libguile-ssh'
builds without 'libssh_threads' when using libssh 0.8+.
Reported by lantw44 in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/issues/9>
*** Fix failing tests
Tests would fail from time to time due to problems with an implementation
of the Guile-SSH testing framework. Now Guile-SSH uses updated (and
hopefully better) version of tests; that should fix most of the failures.
Reported by Pilifer, Carl Dong and Vagrant Cascadian in
<https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/issues/12>
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Many thanks to all the people who helped me with bug reports, pull
requests and other hints. I added all contributors to "AUTHORS" and
"THANKS" files -- please let me know if I forgot to thank someone or
if there any typos.
- Artyom
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