[mosh-devel] Mosh 1.2.6 release candidate available for testing

Thu Jun 2 23:47:57 EDT 2016

Hi, Keith. I don't have predictable time right now, but as I can, I'll look
into this for Mosh for Chrome. I did manage to do a quick "smoke test"
build, but I'm getting a bunch of protobuf link errors. I'll need to do
more investigation, which may include bringing in a newer NaCl SDK so I can
also get newer libraries from naclports. Hopefully I'll find time in the
next day or two.

I can add that it builds OK on the Raspberry Pi (ARM, Raspbian), and the
performance improvement makes a *huge* difference! mosh-server used to take
most of the CPU for busy output or large window size and was notably
sluggish, depending on local echo to be usable. Now the CPU usage is in the
noise, and it responds wonderfully.

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 3:34 AM Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Could you please send in some positive testing reports on the Mosh 1.2.6
> release candidate?
>
> It would be great to have an independent "looks good" from at least the
> following platforms before we cut the release:
>
> - Fedora
> - the OS X binary .pkg
> - OS X compiling from source
> - OpenBSD
> - FreeBSD
> - NetBSD
> - Chrome
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:56 PM, john hood <cgull at glup.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're happy to announce the upcoming release of Mosh 1.2.6, and are
>> calling for testing on Mosh 1.2.5.95rc1.  The release has picked up
>> some minor new features in the year since the last release such as
>> better IPv6 support and tools to handle orphaned sessions.  However,
>> it's also seen significant improvements in performance, testing, and
>> portability.
>>
>> The Changelog for this release:
>>
>>   * New features:
>>     * Add Travis CI builds for Linux and Mac.  (Anders Kaseorg, others)
>>     * Add a --local option to run without ssh.  (John Hood)
>>     * Mosh now returns exitstatus reflecting connection success.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Add a end-to-end test suite and many tests.  (John Hood)
>>     * Implement timeouts and signals to help address orphaned sessions.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Major rework of Mosh's display differencing/rendering
>>       code with much improved performance for slow machines.  (John Hood)
>>     * Implement ANSI back/forward tab (CSI CBT, CSI CHT).
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Do not start user shell until network session starts.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Add options for more flexible specification of IPv4/IPv6
>>       hostname resolution.  (John Hood)
>>     * Improved bash completion.  (Steve Dignam, HIGUCHI Yuta)
>>     * Add options for different methods of resolving the remote host
>>       address, allowing operation without SshProxyCommand.  (John Hood)
>>
>>   * Platform support:
>>     * Add configurable support for Apple Common Crypto and
>>       Nettle, in place of OpenSSL.  Implement base64 locally.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Workaround Cygwin select() bug.  (John Hood)
>>     * Updates to Debian packaging.  (Anders Kaseorg, Keith Winstein)
>>     * Workaround a glibc-2.22 issue causing segfaults on Debian Sid.
>>       (John Hood with help from many others)
>>     * Prefer c++ to g++, for systems like FreeBSD where g++ is not usable.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Fixes for Illumos Hipster 20151003.  (John Hood)
>>     * Disable -Werror for protobuf code, to resolve a new gcc6 warning.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Link test for -fstack-protector-all on an embedded platform.
>>       (Baruch Siach)
>>     * Resolve issue with bswap64() on FreeBSD-CURRENT with libc++-3.8.0.
>>       (John Hood)
>>     * Fix issue with RECVTOS error message on client on FreeBSD.
>>       (John Hood)
>>
>>   * Bug fixes:
>>     * Remove an assertion causing aborts on Unicode fallback found by
>>       fuzzing with afl.  (Keith Winstein)
>>     * Fix a server hang with XON/XOFF on BSD systems.  (John Hood)
>>     * Fix a typeahead-prediction bug that caused display corruption on
>>       urxvt.  (John Hood)
>>
>> Source code is available as
>> <
>> https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/releases/download/untagged-0d43a0f73825e9952677/mosh-1.2.5.95rc1.tar.gz
>> >.
>>  The SHA256 sum for this file is
>> a2697c41cfc8c92dc7a743dd101849a7a508c6986b24d6f44711d8533d18fcf5
>>
>> One standalone OS X package is available:
>>
>> *
>> <
>> https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/releases/download/untagged-0d43a0f73825e9952677/mosh-1.2.5.95rc1.pkg
>> >
>> is an i386/x86_64 build for OS X 10.9 and higher.  The SHA256 sum for
>> this file is
>> 48a56d83d0ef655d38e0ea596fd9cac98c0dc433cb5356205d26748350d47e6c
>>
>> (If you are using a package system such as MacPorts or Homebrew, I
>> recommend using that, though.)
>>
>> As always, Ubuntu PPA builds of the latest source are available at
>> ppa:keithw/mosh.
>>
>> Packagers, please note that Mosh has some minor dependency changes: Perl
>> is now required to be >= 5.14, but IO::Socket modules are no longer
>> required.  If anybody needs to package for older versions of Perl, talk
>> to me and I'll probably bring something into the release.  Also, if
>> anyone needs an OS X package for 10.8 or lower, please contact me.
>>
>> Your testing is very unlikely to prove Mosh to be free of bugs, but your
>> testing will help us make 1.2.6 a better release.  Please report any
>> issues you find on Github, and we can be found on IRC at
>> <irc://irc.freenode.net/mosh>.
>>
>> Looking ahead, we expect Mosh 1.3 to be a feature release, bringing
>> significant new functionality.  SSH agent forwarding is high on the list.
>>
>> The Mosh team thanks you for your help.
>>
>>   --John Hood
>>
>>
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