GNU SASL 0.0.12 alpha released

[Simon Josefsson]

GNU SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and
Security Layer framework and a few common SASL mechanisms.  SASL is
used by network servers (e.g., IMAP, SMTP) to request authentication
from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz         (1.3MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz   (1.3MB)

Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gsasl/releases/gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz.sig

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
  http://josefsson.org/autobuild/gsasl.html

Here are the MD5 checksums:

a8960acdb90b63046b28e2defb20a125  gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz
b5c7ed56df02112b0c2ef8514fe5d6da  gsasl-0.0.12.tar.gz.sig

Noteworthy changes (since 0.0.10, last version announced here):

* Changes in 0.0.12 (released 2004-01-15)

** Protocol line parser in 'gsasl' tool more reliable.
Earlier it assumed two lines were sent in one packet in one place, and
sent as two packets in another place.

** Various bugfixes.

* Changes in 0.0.11 (released 2004-01-06)

** The client part of CRAM-MD5 now uses SASLprep instead of NFKC.
This aligns with draft-ietf-sasl-crammd5-01.

** The CRAM-MD5 challenge string now conform to the proper syntax.

** The string preparation (SASLprep and trace) functions now work correctly.

** DocBook manuals no longer included.
The reason is that recent DocBook tools from the distribution I use
(Debian) fails with an error.  DocBook manuals may be included in the
future, if I can get the tools to work.

** API and ABI modifications.
GSASL_SASLPREP_ERROR: ADD.