All releases tagged Stable


Release Notes: This release fixes some bugs: building on RedHat systems, OpenSSL "nonblock" failure, Debian bug 531078 (SIGCHLD), 64-bit issues, and some minor bugs.


Release Notes: This release fixes a couple of bugs, some of which could crash socat under some circumstances.


Release Notes: This release brings support for SCTP stream sockets, raw interface, and generic sockets. A new option escape allows it to interrupt raw terminal connections. Listening and receiving sockets can set a couple of environment variables. Base control of System V STREAMS has been added. Many corrections were performed. socat compiles on Mac OS X again.


Release Notes: This release fixes lots of bugs with zombie processes, service name resolution, higher FD numbers, and more.


Release Notes: This version provides reasonable multicast and broadcast support, creates TUN/TAP devices on Linux, and introduces abstract UNIX domain sockets on Linux. Furthermore, security with OpenSSL is improved. A couple of bugs and problems have been corrected.


Release Notes: This release adds datagram support, enhanced IPv6 integration, sane command line parsing, support for resolver and ext3fs options, and a lot of new minor features and fixes.


Release Notes: This release fixes a bug that broke Unix socket listen mode.


Release Notes: This version brings lockfile support (at the application and address level), the readbytes option, retry for unix-sockets, and better cleanup after work.


Release Notes: This release adds a connect-timeout option, support for DSA certificates, and some minor corrections.


Release Notes: The wait-slave option is provided for better pty handling. Some options that are specific to BSD, HP-UX, and Tru64 are supported. Improvements and some minor corrections were made to the filan utility.