Welcome
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06-19-2008
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.1.0 Release is now
available for download. This release is the result of 6+ months of work
and provides numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements. To begin with,
the Vista 32/64 operating systems are now supported. Compatibility has
also been improved to interoperate with Cisco, Juniper, Fortigate, Zywall
and many other commercial gateways. Thanks to everyone who provided bug
reports and feedback. For a complete list of features and requirements,
please review the product documentation available on our website.
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11-27-2007
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.3 Release is now
available for download. This release corrects several problems related
to NAT-T port handling, large certificate handling and build support for
older Linux variants. Thanks to everyone who provided bug reports and
feedback. For a complete list of features and requirements, please review
the product documentation available on our website.
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10-25-2007
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.2 Release is now
available for download. This release corrects several problems related
to password protected file handling, site configuration quirks, NAT-T in
main mode, a difficult to trigger buffer overflow and much more. It also
fixes a long standing issue with Dead Peer Detection that could cause
connections to timeout prematurely. All users are strongly encouraged to
upgrade to this new release. Thanks to everyone who provided bug reports
and feedback. For a complete list of features and requirements, please
review the product documentation available on our website.
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09-26-2007
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Release is now
available for download. This release provides enhanced platform support,
improved compatibility with third party gateways and many bug fixes. All
users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this new release. Thanks to
everyone who provided bug reports and feedback. For a complete list of
features and requirements, please review the product documentation
available on our website.
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09-18-2007
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Release Candidate is now available
for download. This release includes documentation updates and minor bug
fixes.
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09-10-2007
The fourth Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Beta Release is now available for
download. This release adds support for FreeBSD 7, corrects a locking
problem for Unix targets and fixes other minor bugs. The Windows install
and uninstall packages have also been enhanced to avoid several different
problematic situations.
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09-03-2007
The third Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Beta Release is now available for
download. This release corrects a regression that was causing unnecessary
modecfg exchanges to be initiated with some gateways. It also provides
improved support for using iked as a full replacement for racoon when the
host is acting as an IPSEC gateway.
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08-29-2007
The second Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Beta Release is now available for
download. This release corrects a serious regression related to DNS and
WINS server configuration on win32. It also corrects a long standing
interoperability issue with Cisco VPN Gateways and improves configuration
attribute handling. A new debug options is also included that allows the
DNS transparent proxy daemon to dump processed packets.
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08-26-2007
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0.1 Beta Release is now available for
download. Not only does this mark the first beta release that includes
native AMD64 XP operating system support, but also the first to fully
support the FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux based operating systems. In the
spirit of open source, all source code for these platforms has been
released under a liberal OSI approved license. For more information,
please visit the software section of this website.
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08-01-2007
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Release is now
available for download. This release is the result of 10+ months of work
and provides a more mature and stable solution than previous versions.
Thanks to everyone who provided bug reports and feedback. For a complete
list of features and requirements, please review the full documentation
available on our website.
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07-14-2007
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Release Candidate is now available
for download. This release includes one critical bug fix and some minor
documentation updates.
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05-30-2007
The fourth Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Beta Release is now available
for download. This release includes several bug fixes and improved
compatibility for Lancom VPN Gateways.
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05-15-2007
The third Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Beta Release is now available
for download. This release includes corrected support for dialup
and PPPOE/DSL interafaces, enhanced performance and several
important bug fixes.
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04-24-2007
The second Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Beta Release is now available
for download. This release includes several bug fixes and improved
compatibility for Cisco and Juniper Netscreen VPN Gateways.
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02-23-2007
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.0 Beta Release is now available
for download. For more information, please see the
VPN Client Download
page. If you have the time, please support this free product
by testing and
submitting
bug reports.
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09-29-2006
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.1 Release is
now available for download. This marks the second stable release in the
1.x series. Thanks to everyone who provided bug reports and feedback.
For a complete list of features and requirements, please review the full
documentation available on our website.
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09-12-2006
The second Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.1 Beta Release is now available
for download. Changes include support for improved phase2 lifetime
handling and a few other important bug fixes.
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08-31-2006
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.1 Beta Release is now available
for download. Changes include support for Split DNS, Dead Peer
Detection, improved dialup networking support, improved virtual
device management and many bug fixes and documentation updates.
As usual, thanks to everyone who tested this release and submitted
bug reports.
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08-23-2006
I am pleased to announce the Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.0 Release
is now available for download. This marks the first stable
release in the 1.x series. Thanks to everyone who provided bug
reports and feedback, especially Peter and Brian at boku dot net.
For a complete list of features and requirements, please review
the full documentation available on our website.
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08-18-2006
The third Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.0 Release Candidate is now
available for download. As this is leading up to our initial
stable release, a few serious bugs have been reported late in
the cycle. Our goal is to ensure this product is as useful and
stable as possible. Once all reported bugs have been addressed,
the final 1.0 package will be posted for download. Until that
time, its never too late to
report
any issues you may have encountered.
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08-12-2006
The second Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.0 Release Candidate is now
available for download. Changes include a few important bug fixes.
If no major problems are reported, this package will be released
as 1.0 in a few days. Many thanks to all who tested and submitted
bug reports, especially Peter and Brian at boku dot net.
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08-03-2006
The first Shrew Soft VPN Client 1.0 Release Candidate is now
available for download. Changes include many bug fixes and updates
to the documentation.
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07-15-2006
A new Beta version of the The Shrew Soft VPN client is now
available for download. This release contains many bug fixes
and increased compatibility for non ipsec-tools gateways. If
no major flaws are found, the next release will be a 1.0
candidate. Please help us by reporting any bugs you may find.
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03-29-2006
A new Beta version of the The Shrew Soft VPN client is now
available for download. This is the last scheduled beta before
we move into a 1.0 release cycle so please help us test if you
have the time. Changes include support for multiple simultaneous
tunnels, several minor bug fixes and a vastly improved html help
system. For a complete list of known issues, features and
requirements, please review the full documentation now available
on our website.
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03-28-2006
The Shrew Soft Inc public website has been launched. If you
experience any problems while viewing this website, please
let us know.
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03-14-2006
A new Beta version of the The Shrew Soft VPN client is now
available for download. Changes include fixes for a few
critical bugs identified shortly after the last release,
many minor bug fixes and full support for delete payload
handling. This release is definitely the most stable and
functional to date, so please upgrade any previous installations.
For a complete list of known issues, features and requirements,
please review the updated howto document available from the
download page.
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03-11-2006
A new Beta version of the The Shrew Soft VPN client is now
available for download. Changes include many bug fixes,
compatibility fixes and the addition of IKE fragmentation
support. For a complete list of known issues, features and
requirements, please review the updated howto document
available from the download page.
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02-25-2006
The Shrew Soft VPN client now supports all features planned for
the 1.0 release. A lot of work was done to bring it in line with the
ipsec-tools CVS version. This includes support for new XAuth user
authentication methods as well as automatic policy configuration using
the extended modecfg facility. In addition, traditional road-warrior
access methods are also supported. For a complete list of features and
requirements, please review the howto document available from the
download page.
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