From: Martin Willi <martin@revosec.ch>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:10:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: mention watcher and stream services
X-Git-Tag: 5.1.0rc1~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3b8335cfb1def38c0c575d607274c2fc8e9329b;p=thirdparty%2Fstrongswan.git

NEWS: mention watcher and stream services
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ac1fe2dc4d..58994f90b9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ strongswan-5.1.0
   in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
   without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
 
+- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
+  concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
+  various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
+  reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
+
+- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
+  transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
+  TCP connections from a different host.
+
 - libipsec now supports AES-GCM.