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3.0
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- Bounced version numbers for release.
- Minor changes in Installer script.
2.96
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- Added ARexx command QUITFORCE to avoid the "ARexx scripts are still
running" problem.
- Earlier versions crashed violently if no GUI module could be
initialized - fixed.
- MUI.MiamiGui, MUIMWB.MiamiGui: fixed a dangling-busy-pointer bug
when the dialer finished in iconified state.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: Killing the GUI while other windows besides the
main window (e.g. dialer) were open caused a crash - fixed.
- Really added new version of miamisocks.library this time.
- Added new icon in NewIcons style.
- Installer now sets AppIcons and (for NewIcons) default
ASCII/AmigGuide icons correctly.
2.95
----
*** This is the first complete Miami package after 2.1p (not just an
*** incremental upgrade), and should be considered a "trial run" for
*** the 3.0 release. Please test the installation script, and have
*** a look at the new manual.
- The internal process "Miami Downtown" is no longer displayed in the
list of processes that keep Miami open.
- Hopefully fixed some problems with a busy pointer not being
removed.
- Miami, MiamiInit, MiamiRegister: Default values for "ENV:MIAMI/GUI"
did not work correctly.
- miamisocks.library: Fixed an Enforcer in the DCC hack.
2.94f
-----
- Some changes to HDLC input state machines to make FCS error counts
more accurate.
- Added workaround for NSD re-open bug in hydra.device.
- Another workaround for hydra.device: write requests are now only sent
to the device one at a time. This appears to improve throughput, at
least on the author's machine...
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: IP address types for SANA-II interfaces were
displayed incorrectly.
- miamisocks.library: minor changes
- Miami, #?.MiamiGui, MiamiInit: Locale changes
- #?.MiamiGui: The state of menu item checkmarks did not survive GUI
switches and some other events.
- Miami, MiamiInit, MiamiRegister: added support for ENV:Miami/GUI
to define the default GUI.
2.94e
-----
- Fixed some problems with iconify/deiconify during dialing.
- Interrupting the dialer early would not always hang up the line.
- Miami, MiamiSysCtl: Added option to disable Path MTU Discovery.
- MiamiInit: Initialization of ISDN boards should work now.
- MiamiInit, MiamiRegister: Added ToolType "GUI" and support for
different GUI engines.
- MiamiRegister: Rearranged some texts for compatibility with
GTLayout engine.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: MTU for serial interfaces was not set
correctly.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: Status messages did not contain modem speed
and did not survive "Kill GUI".
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: Pressing a function key in the dialer when
dial buttons were disabled caused an Enforcer hit.
- GTLayout.MiamiToolsGui: added to the distribution.
2.94d
-----
- Workaround in NSD check code to prevent Enforcer hits from
Semaphores with trashed name field.
- Minor changes in device access code hoping to track down an
incompatibility.
- Appicon/menu were not displayed if "kill gui on startup" was
enabled. Should be fixed now.
- MiamiInit: another attempt to get the init string for ISDN
boards and TAs right...
- MiamiInit: &C1 is now always added to the init string.
- MiamiInit: Added ToolType PACKETDEBUG.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: Changed layout for compatibility with newer
V43 versions of gtlayout.library.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: Removed a trailing menu bar label in the
settings menu.
2.94c
-----
- Corrected dial suffix when importing MiamiInit V3 settings.
- Hostnames were not imported correctly from MiamiInit V3.
- Slight change in iconify/kill-gui code for compatibility with GUIs
that do not support iconify (e.g. GTLayout).
- Fixed an Enforcer hit that occured when taking PPP/SLIP offline.
- Added ToolType "GUI" to specify the GUI engine at startup
(overriding the preferences).
- MiamiInit: Corrected rts/cts part of init string for Tornado/Trust
modems.
- MiamiInit: Added some modems and Ethernet boards to the list.
- MiamiInit: An initialization problem with ISDN boards (diag code
100) should be fixed now.
- MUI.MiamiGui: Minor change to MS-CHAP check.
- GTLayout.MiamiGui: added to the distribution. Requires
gtlayout.library V40 or higher (from Olaf Barthel's "term"
distribution).
2.94b
-----
- MiamiInit: Devices which only support a single unit were opened
with unit -1 instead of 0 -- fixed.
2.94a
-----
- Added sysctl option "dns.cache.split" to separate DNS caches for
gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr(). With this option enabled
gethostbyaddr() only uses DNS PTR queries, not information from
earlier DNS A queries.
- Changed default Commodities input expression for compatibility
with old versions of AmigaOS.
- Reenabled NSD-based device verification if NSDPatch is installed.
- Fixed an Enforcer hit in UDP-chargen service.
- Major code reorganizations. Now one single, consistent set of
C header files and global symbol tables is finally used for all
sources and utilities, in sync with MiamiSDK 2.21.
- Enabled full compiler optimizations.
- Miami should now react more quickly to "Cancel" while talking
to the modem.
- GUI initialization is now done later during startup, so the
GUI choice can be loaded from the settings file.
- MUI.MiamiGui: Made main listview default object.
- MUI.MiamiGui: Reactivated options on the "Windows" page.
- MiamiInit: added to distribution. This is a completely new,
program, and incorporates the functionality of the old
"MiamiInit" and "MiamiInitSANA2" into a single program, plus
many new features. Changes include:
- Added support for external user interface engines (MUI,
and upcoming: GTLayout, ClassAct).
- Updated modem list to include ISDN TAs and 56k modems.
- Added support for ISDN (TAs and boards), with built-in
lists of modes and init strings.
- Added board lists for Ethernet/Arcnet/etc.
- Added support for cable modems and ADSL modems.
- Added support for parallel port connections and nullmodem
connections.
- Improved support for accessing LANs.
- Much more flexible handling of DNS: DNS can be disabled
completely or set to "LAN mode" (not allowing access to
root servers). DNS verification can be skipped, and results
from verification can be ignored.
- MiamiInit now knows about screenmode restrictions, speed
restrictions and driver restrictions on the built-in
serial port, checks for them, and tells the user about
expected problems, if necessary.
- Added Miami's built-in serial port driver for registered
users.
- Added workarounds for problems that some modems have with
the CD and RTS/CTS lines and default settings for them.
(This affects Zoom and Multitech modems, for instance.)
- Improved DNS detection/configuration in SANA-II mode.
- Added "Skip" option to allow the user to bypass some checks
in the configuration phase (e.g. "RArp" if no RArp server
is present).
- Added support for DHCP.
- Added hostname check.
- Now defaults "Use login dialog" to off, because of the
growing number of "smart PPP servers".
- Customized dialer layout for nullmodem and dialing without
login dialog.
- Resynchronized all protocols (PPP, SLIP, DHCP, DNS etc.)
with their implementations in Miami 2.94a.
2.93c
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internal version, not publically released
2.93b
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- 2.93a was missing the new version of MUI.MiamiGUI, which is
why all texts were wrong. This archive corrects this error.
2.93a
-----
- Added several PPC support functions to miami.library and
miamipcap.library to simplify access to Miami from PPC-native
clients, and bumped version number to 12.
- Changed several structures used in miami.library and
bsdsocket.library for natural alignment in a PPC kernel, and
added new access functions for those structures. Old access
functions are still binary-compatible with AmiTCP/IP and old
software, but will not work with PPC versions.
- Added workaround for AbortIO() bug in a4066.device.
- Bug fix: ping packets arriving during interface negotiation
should no longer cause spurious errors.
- MiamiNetStat: increased with of "destination" column in "-r"
output by 2 characters.
- MiamiMRouteD, MiamiNetStat, MiamiArp, MiamiRoute: new versions
with new structure alignment.
2.92h
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- MiamiRegister: fixed a problem with non-blocking connect()s
through SOCKS.
- Several workarounds for possible problems with AbortIO(),
caused by bugs in bscisdn.device and HyperCOM drivers.
- Fixed a bug that could cause lockups with the built-in serial
driver if Miami was taken offline while traffic was sent across
the serial line.
2.92g
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- Configured hotkey values are now active immediately after
loading settings.
- Changed the delimiter for service ranges in the IP filter from
"-" to "/" to avoid a conflict with service names containing a
"-" character.
- Bounced miami.library to v11 and added many advanced API functions
from Posix.1g and RFC-2133.
- Host name checks are now case-insensitive.
- The accept() in inetd is now non-blocking to avoid a race
condition when the client quits prematurely.
- Fixed a problem with multiple requesters appearing simultaneously.
- A few changes to the DHCP timing.
2.92f
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* This release uses new TCP kernel code and is rather experimental.
Please test TCP connections in all variations: locally, to and
from remote machines, with T/TCP enabled and disabled, and with
T/TCP-compliant and -non-compliant clients and servers, and report
any unusual effects (lockups, crashes, panics etc.).
- Several additional performance optimizations.
- Fixed an Enforcer hit when going online with Ethernet (caused by
a bug in the TCP pipe adjustment introduced in 2.92e).
- Resynchronized TCP implementation with FreeBSD 2.2.5.
- Allowed "," in Database->Socks->Command
2.92e
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- Modem init strings are now only sent without flow control if
sending them with flow control fails.
- Built-in serial driver now uses SetIntVector() instead of patching
interrupt vectors directly, to avoid crashes under heavy DMA use.
This change may be temporary.
- Some modifications to reverse-DNS host name lookup.
- Increased priority of interface task from 5 to 10, and priority
of kernel task from 4 to 8 to prevent DOS handlers from
preempting Miami, which would cause SANA-II packet loss during
bulk transfers.
- Some minor changes to improve the performance of bulk data transfers.
- Modified the old "TCP-ACK-Hack" to be compatible with T/TCP, and
reenabled it, to automatically ack every packet with the PUSH bit
set during bulk data transfers, regardless of TCP window settings.
This improves performance when receiving TCP bulk data.
- Built-in serial device options integrated into the GUI. Using
the string "builtin" is no longer necessary (or possible).
- Increased the TCP pipe sizes for local Ethernet routes from
16 kB to 32 kB.
- Added MiamiSysCtl to beta archive.
2.92d
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- The WAITCONNECT bug supposedly fixed in 2.92c should now
really be fixed :-/
- Added ARexx command "GETCONNECTTIME" to return the number of
seconds since the modem returned the CONNECT message.
- Miami should now react more quickly to the "Cancel" gadget
when resetting the modem.
- serial devices are now opened without flow control when resetting
the modem. This should help with misconfigured Multitech modems
and probably some others.
- The file name for PPP logging is now saved in the settings file.
- Enabled built-in serial device handler. This feature is HIGHLY
EXPERIMENTAL and probably buggy, i.e. expect it to crash, burn
and destroy your Amiga and your modem :-). To choose this
driver type "builtin" as the device name (without ".device").
- The status message is now maintained and changed even when the
GUI is killed, and preserved across GUI changes.
- Rewrote large portions of the iconify code. Many of the old
bugs (iconify/deiconify messing things up during dialing)
should be fixed.
- Killing the GUI or reopening a killed GUI during dialing or
when requesters are open should work much better now. This
feature is still highly experimental though.
- The hangup and LCP-TermReq code should now be more tolerant
to flow control problems.
- Changed the label "On Startup" to the more meaningful
"Kill GUI on Startup". The old text dates back to a very early
alpha version of Miami V3 when the whole page was called "Iconify"
instead of "GUI".
- "Save as Default" now always saves settings in "Miami:".
- Added protection from the Internet attack program "land.c"
(which forges IP addresses and port numbers to exploit a
vulnerability in almost all existing TCP implementations).
- MiamiSocks: Fixed a bug in the DCC workaround.
- MiamiSocks: Added a workaround for a compatibility problem with
Voyager 2.92.
- MiamiRegister: Upgrades from ppp.device via First Virtual were
not processed correctly.
- MiamiTCPDump: Added option "-A" ("-xA" creates ASCII output
in addition to hex).
2.92c
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- Miami no longer hangs when an ARexx quit script is configured and
RexxMast is not running.
- Fixed a bug in the WAITCONNECT dialer command that could
cause strings other than "CONNECT" to trigger a match.
- MiamiRegister: Added a retry option to another requester.
- MiamiRegister: Changed the messages in two misleading requesters.
- Added some functions to miami.library and miamipcap.library to
support MiamiRemind.
- Added GUI iconify option to "active offline" event.
- When importing a config from MiamiInit the option "down when
offline" now defaults to "on" for dynamic IP addresses, to
prevent problems with YAM hanging during a connect().
- Changes on the Socks page now affect *new* clients immediately.
- Added MUI bubble help for the GUI page.
- Status messages are no longer cleared when switching between
GUI pages or killing the GUI.
- Fixed signal handling in miamibpf.library and miamipcap.library
for custom abort signals.
- Added MiamiRemind to distribution. See MiamiRemind.doc for more
information.
2.92b
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- minor changes in MiamiRegister and miamisocks.library
- Miami now moves its screen/window to front and activates it
during double-start and Cx-Show even if Miami is deiconified.
- MUI.MiamiGui now closes the public screen during iconify if no
other windows are open.
- GUI->"Show icon" and GUI->"Show menu" are now enabled by default.
- MiamiRegister: increased TCP timeouts to avoid premature
disconnects.
2.92a
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- required "Miami:" assign, and replaced all occurences of
"PROGDIR:" with "Miami:".
- disabled "verify DNS" for broadcast networks.
- bounced catalog version to 10.
- modified the broken-NT workaround for LCP option 0 for better
compatibility with yet another broken PPP server (ITK Suprimo).
- changed library priorites to 1.
- added proper error message if the "Miami:" assign does not exist.
- registered version now requires keyfile version 3.
2.91c
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MiamiRegister release only:
- corrected a misleading error message if 'QuickUpgrade' failed
between the first and the second step.
- added a note regarding version 3 keyfiles and Miami 2.x.
2.91b
-----
MiamiRegister release only. Completely rewritten since 2.1p.
2.91a
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first new beta release. Lots of changes since 2.1p. Many parts
completely rewritten.
2.1p
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previous release version