Announce: OpenSSH 5.6 released

[Bert Wesarg]

Hi,

thank you very much for this release.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 13:32, Damien Miller <djm at cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
> OpenSSH 5.6 has just been released. It will be available from the
> mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
>
> OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0
> implementation and includes sftp client and server support.
>
> Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
> continued support of the project, especially those who contributed
> code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the
> project. More information on donations may be found at:
> http://www.openssh.com/donations.html
>
> Changes since OpenSSH 5.5
> =========================
>
> Features:
>
>  * Added a ControlPersist option to ssh_config(5) that automatically
>   starts a background ssh(1) multiplex master when connecting. This
>   connection can stay alive indefinitely, or can be set to
>   automatically close after a user-specified duration of inactivity.

Particular for this new feature. But I miss an important feature. I
need a LocalCommand equivalent, which is only executed once per
session (i.e. by the multiplex master). I use this to mount file
systems from the remote per sshfs. My ControlCommand patch [1] does
have allow this. I could rework this path, so that it only has this
feature.

Opinions?

Bert