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  • SwsSock Cross-platform networing library and application suite.
  • SwsMtc Cross-platform multi-tasking library.
  • ScUtil Cross-platform smartcard explorer.
  • SimUtil Cross platfom SIM card explorer.
  • SwsVpkt Windows packet driver emulation for DOS programs.
  • SoundFX Windows sound card emulation for DOS programs.
  • NetCenturion Windows network packet filter / firewall.

News

11th April '12

  • MythTV
    New mini-ITX format Custom Built MythTV Systems.

16th December '11

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1st December '11

  • MythTV
    New Custom Built MythTV Systems.

22nd Apr '11

  • SwsSock version 2.0.13.
    Httpd - Fix a bug with HEAD requests not closing the connection until idle timeout.
    Ftpd - Fix a bug in passive connections hanging in accept.
    Close & re-use oldest connection if all connections in use.
    Limit directory name lengths.
    Add more log output.
    Smtpd - Limit login attempts and lockout abusive IP addresses.
    Updated WatcomC makefiles and MSVC projects.

1st Feb '11

  • MythTV
    New build system and Windows installer.
  • SwsSock version 2.0.12.
    Ftpd - Limit login attempts and lockout abusive clients.
    Smtpd - Improved spam mail detection.

15th Nov '10

  • NEW page about MythTV.

29th Aug '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.11.
  • Httpd - security fix for unexpected disconnect.
  • Smtpd - improved spam rejection options.
  • NEW Swsinfo app prints stack configuration to stdout.

16th July '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.10. This is largely a maintenance release.
  • Httpd - security fix for alias expansion.
  • Popd and smtpd bug fixes.
  • Loganaly - Add -s option for simpler pattern matching.
  • NEW Nova-S-Plus audio patch for Linux kernel 2.6.35.

13th March '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.9
  • NEW popd adds plain, login and cram-md5 authentication methods.
  • Inetd adds -c 'config file' and -p pid, command line options.
    Logrotate now uses sighup, meaning less down time.
    Daemon mode now built by default with support for group id's.
  • Httpd - bugfix for idle timeout.
    Security fix for CGI paths with spaces.
  • All log output of response codes >= 400 is now at warning level.
  • Realip - bugfix for -r mode.
  • NEW Library modules: MD5, base64, wild card string compare and RFC822 time & date.
  • NEW Nova-S-Plus audio patch for Linux kernel 2.6.34.

5th March '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.8
  • NEW Httpd support for PHP (php-cgi).
  • NEW Httpd restricted realms for CGI.
  • Inetd. Security fix to correctly drop root groups membership.
    Catch SIGHUP to re-open logfile, to support Linux log-rotate
  • Recvmail & sendmail. apps extended to support scripting for webmail.
  • NEW Listings of download directories using CGI.
  • Simutil version 1.0.1 adds interactive edit mode.
  • NEW SoundFX registry key to disable the 3 minute evaluation time limit.

22nd February '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.7. This is largely a maintenance release.
  • Popd fix a potential crash during unexpected disconnects.
    Add config file setting for max authenication attempts.
  • Smtpd fix a potential crash when validating mails from localhost.
    Add config file setting for banned-senders, mail-names, dynamic-names and static-names.
  • Http CGI minor bug fixes.
  • Recvmail add commands to support CGI webmail client.

5th February '10

  • New Tools page providing About you, DNS, Ping and Whois based on the SwsSock apps.
  • SwsSock version 2.0.6.
  • CGI compatibility for the apps dns, ping and whois
  • Loganaly Add error and warn filters
  • Httpd Bug fix CGI directory handling.

29th January '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.5.
  • Httpd v2.1.2
    - New URI alias list with wildcards.
    - Improved common authentication system allows each 'realm' to have its own folder.
    - New user specified MIME types.
    - Bug fix CGI ( Windows/DOS environment variables).
  • Ftpd v1.0.5 - Added 'x' user permission giving 'cwd' rights
  • Smtpd v1.0.5 - Added option for a call-out to a script to verify mail contents paving the way for spam & virus filtering.
  • Telnetd v2.0.4 - Add IP address restriction to accounts.
  • Loganaly More stats and filters.
  • SWS_CfgSetName parses the ini file and sets up a section cache giving much reduced library startup time.

18th January '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.4.
  • Httpd:
    Common authentication model for all modules giving reduced code size and better performance.
    Configuration options cache for better performance.
  • Inetd:
    Simplified task definition.
    Fixed a race condition during daemon startup.
  • Log analyser: Added stats for HTTP user-agent, platform and referrer.
  • Sendmail: Better diagnostics if mail server login fails.
  • Smtpd: Configuration options cache for better performance.
  • Build scripts updated.

11th January '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.3.
  • Httpd:
    URI redirection list now uses faster binary search;
    more detailed logging;
    proxy now supports an IP blacklist and content compression;
    CGI redirection bugs fixed.
  • Log analyser now reports top HTTP URIs.
  • Website is now HTML5/CSS2.1 compatible.

7th January '10

  • SwsSock version 2.0.2.
    Minor tweaks to httpd to improve proxy performance and logging.
    Updated log analyser to track changes in httpd log output.
  • Minor tweaks to the website design.

6th January '10

  • SoundFX is now open source.
  • SwsSock version 2.0.1. The httpd application provides performance enhancements for CGI, simpler website layout, increased security for put and delete methods and improved logging.

4th January '10

  • A totally re-designed website.
  • A new web server using our own inetd daemon from the SwsSock application suite running on Kubuntu 9.10 and a custom Linux 2.6.32 kernel for a Power-Mac G3.
  • SwsSock: TCP/IP comms stack version 2.0.0, now fully open sourced.
  • Many new SwsSock applications including DNS client, FTP client, FTP server, ident server, log file analyser, multicast ping client/server, POP3 client & server, realIP (external IP address detection), SMTP client; SMTP server with SASL authorisation and spam rejection rules, discard client/server, syslogd, telnet server, TFTP client, universal plug'n'play client and whois.
  • Upgraded inetd and httpd server including modules for CGI, HTTP proxy and video4linux.
  • SwsVpkt: Virtual packet driver for Windows, version 1.0.0.5 now fully open sourced.
  • SwsMtc: C/C++ multithreading library version 1.5.0 features Linux and POSIX compatibility and many performance improvements.
  • ScUtil: New ISO 7816 smart-card Swiss army knife.
  • SimUtil: New phone SIM card address book utility.
  • Linux kernel patch for the Hauppauge's Nova-S-Plus digital satellite receiver card to enable external audio input with ALSA mixer control.
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