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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.

11^th April '12

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

16^th December '11

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1^st December '11

• MythTV
  New Custom Built MythTV Systems.

22^nd 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.

1^st 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.

15^th Nov '10

• NEW page about MythTV.

29^th 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.

16^th 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.

13^th 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.

5^th 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.

22^nd 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.

5^th 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.

29^th 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.

18^th 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.

11^th 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.

7^th 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.

6^th 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.

4^th 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.