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

Andrew Chin andrew at andrewchin.net
Wed Jun 8 22:37:43 EDT 2016 

Positive ACK on the OSX binary package, running on 10.9.5

Did only baic test:
 * Install OK
 * Mosh from OSX to Linux OK
 * Mosh from Linux to OSX OK

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:45 PM Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:

> Thanks all who have tested the mosh 1.2.6 release candidate so far.
>
> We're still looking for a postive ACK that somebody has successfully
> tested the release candidate on:
>
> - Fedora
> - OS X binary .pkg (
> https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/releases/download/untagged-0d43a0f73825e9952677/mosh-1.2.5.95rc1.pkg
> )
> - OS X compiling from source
>
> Thanks all,
> Keith
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Richard Woodbury <rpwoodbu at mybox.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have confirmed that the RC builds and runs OK in Mosh for Chrome.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:47 PM Richard Woodbury <rpwoodbu at mybox.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>>>
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