OpenSSH 4.2 released

OpenSSH 4.2 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com shortly.

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Changes in the new release includes:

Added a new compression method that delays the start of zlib compression until the user has been authenticated successfully. Another round of proactive changes for signed vs unsigned integer bugs has been completed, including changing the atomicio() API to encourage safer programming.

Support for the improved arcfour cipher modes from draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02.
The improves the cipher's resistance to a number of attacks by discarding early keystream output.

Increase the default size of new RSA/DSA keys generated by ssh-keygen from 1024 to 2048 bits.

Many bugfixes and improvements to connection multiplexing and Portable OpsnSSH: Support for long passwords and Unixware 7.