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Shrew Soft Inc Disclaimer

This software uses strong cryptography provided by the freely available OpenSSL Toolkit ( http://www.openssl.org ). For this reason, please read the legal notices below. The second notice is a reproduction of the notice posted on the OpenSSL download page.

SHREW SOFT INC WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY LAW THAT GOVERNS THE IMPORT/EXPORT OF STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THESE LAWS MAY APPLY TO YOU BEFORE OBTAINING ANY SOFTWARE FROM THIS WEBSITE.

OpenSSL Disclaimer

This software package uses strong cryptography, so even if it is created, maintained and distributed from liberal countries in Europe (where it is legal to do this), it falls under certain export/import and/or use restrictions in some other parts of the world.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EXPORT/IMPORT AND/OR USE OF STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE, PROVIDING CRYPTOGRAPHY HOOKS OR EVEN JUST COMMUNICATING TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE IS ILLEGAL IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD. SO, WHEN YOU IMPORT THIS PACKAGE TO YOUR COUNTRY, RE-DISTRIBUTE IT FROM THERE OR EVEN JUST EMAIL TECHNICAL SUGGESTIONS OR EVEN SOURCE PATCHES TO THE AUTHOR OR OTHER PEOPLE YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ANY EXPORT/IMPORT AND/OR USE LAWS WHICH APPLY TO YOU. THE AUTHORS OF OPENSSL ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY VIOLATIONS YOU MAKE HERE. SO BE CAREFUL, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

System Requirements

This software package is distributed in source code form. It has been tested with FreeBSD 6.2, NetBSD 3.1, Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distributions on both x86 and amd64 platforms. For build instructions and dependency information, please see the readme file included in the software distribution.

Documentation and Support

Full documentation is now available online. Please visit our support page for a list of support options.

VPN Client Documentation
VPN Support Page

Stable Releases

Stable releases are presumed to be mostly bug-free and useful to the general public.

Beta Releases

Beta releases are not presumed to be bug-free. The intended audience would be users that are interested in testing the software for bugs and regressions.

Alpha Releases

Alpha releases are not feature complete or presumed to be bug-free. The intended audience would be users that are interested in an advanced preview of what features may be later included in future Beta releases.

Future Release Plans

A future release plan and progress checklist can be found here

Public Source Code Repository

The source code for the Shrew Soft IKE daemon and Client front end applications is hosted in a public subversion repository. To obtain the current development version, please use the following url.

svn://svn.shrew.net/ike/head

STABLE RELEASE

Date	Build	Download	Changelog
2.1.7-release	Oct 08 2010	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.6-release	Aug 17 2010	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.5-release	Dec 05 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.4-release	Nov 11 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.3-release	Oct 12 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.2-release	Sep 23 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.1-release	Jun 30 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.1.0-release	Jun 19 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.0.3-release	Nov 27 2007	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.0.2-release	Oct 25 2007	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.0.1-release	Sep 26 2007	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View

STABLE DEVELOPMENT [ 2.1.x ]

HEAD DEVELOPMENT [ 2.2.x ]

Date	Build	Download	Changelog
2.2.0-beta-2	Aug 4 2011	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-beta-1	Feb 1 2011	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-11	Jan 10 2011	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-10	Dec 12 2010	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-9	Jul 19 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-8	Jun 29 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-7	May 01 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-5	Feb 22 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-4	Jan 29 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-3	Jan 13 2009	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-2	Nov 11 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View
2.2.0-alpha-1	Oct 27 2008	tar gzip archive tar bzip2 archive	View