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RELEASE NOTES for USAGI stable kit.
							USAGI Project

IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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In this release, we have already improved and implemented the following
features,

	- ICMPv6 Node Information Queries
	- Privacy Extensions (RFC 3041)
	- IPv6 khttpd
	- better source address selection
	- ISATAP, Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
	- IPv4 and/or IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel
	- per-device statistics for SNMP
	- IPv4/IPv6 socket binding on the same port
	- dropping IPv6 packets with malicious address(es)
	- default route when IPv6 forwarding is enabled
	- hacked SO_REUSEADDR behavior
	- bug-fixed NDP(Neighbor Discovery Protocol) support
	- bug-fixed Stateless Address Auto-configuration support
	- RFC2553 / RFC2553bis APIs support including IPV6_V6ONLY
	  socket option
	- RFC2292 / RFC2292bis APIs
	- many basic IPv6-ready applications

Following things are not featured in this release while our snapshots 
does:

	- anycast support (kernel 2.4 only)
	- IPsec (transport mode) (kernel 2.4 only)
	- Mobile IPv6 (kernel 2.4 only, almost equals to the HUT 
	Implementation)

For more details of implementation, please refer CHANGELOG.USAGI,
doc/IMPLEMENTATION file and howto files under doc/HOWTO/ directory.
Latest detailed information is available at our web site
<http://www.linux-ipv6.org/>.


FUTURE PLAN
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As next step, we are now trying to improve and implement the following
features,
	- Catching up RFC2553bis APIs,
	- Improving NDP(NeighbourDiscoveryProtocol) further,
	- Improving extension header functions,
	- Implementing IPv6 multicast routing,
	- Implementing IPsec (tunnel mode),
	- Implementing IPcomp for IPsec,
	- Improving Mobile IPv6
	- Implementing new DNS features (EDNS0, DNSsec),
	- Improving anycast ,
	- Designing and implementing new tunnel device,
	- Designing and implementing translator and
	- Improving policy routing.


NEXT RELEASE
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We will release snapshots per two weeks and make a stable release several
times a year. As for releasing plan of next stable release, we will announce
the date when we release the latest stable release.

Next stable release will be released in this summer.

