Announce: OpenSSH 5.6 released

[Bert Wesarg]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:50, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Missing link: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openssh.devel/16018