[ANN] Guile-SSH 0.10.2 released

[Artyom Poptsov]

Hello Guilers,

I'm pleased to announce Guile-SSH 0.10.2:
  https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/releases/tag/v0.10.2

Please find the package signed with my GPG key[1] here:
  - ftp://memory-heap.org/software/guile-ssh/guile-ssh-0.10.2.tar.gz
  - ftp://memory-heap.org/software/guile-ssh/guile-ssh-0.10.2.tar.gz.sig

This release adds new procedure 'channel-send-eof' to (ssh channel) that
allows to send end-of-file (EOF) on a channel; there are less
significant changes as well.  Please see the full list of user-visible
changes below.

Thanks for all the contributions, they where very helpful.  Contributors
listed in the documentation, 'AUTHORS' and 'THANKS' files included in
the distribution.


* What is Guile-SSH?

Guile-SSH is a library that provides access to the SSH protocol[2] for
programs written in GNU Guile interpreter.  It is built upon the
libssh[3] library.

Currently Guile-SSH provides the following features:
  - The API that is sufficient for building of standalone SSH clients and
    servers, or for embedding client/server functionality in your lispy Scheme
    applications.
  - Several authentication methods are supported, including password
    authentication, public key and SSH agent authentication methods.
  - Key management procedures: you can make key pairs, read keys from files,
    get key hashes, get public keys from private keys etc.  DSS, RSA, RSA1 and
    ECDSA (by means of OpenSSL) are supported.
  - Port forwarding procedures and high-level API for creating of SSH tunnels.
  - Distributed forms ('dist-map', 'distribute', ...) that allow to spread the
    evaluation of Scheme code between remote hosts.  Or you can just connect
    to a remote REPL from Scheme using 'with-ssh' procedure and evaluate some
    expressions.  No special server needed on the remote side, just an SSH
    daemon and GNU Guile installed!
  - SFTP client API allows you to read and write remote files over the SSH
    protocol right from the Scheme code.
  - Remote popen API that allows you to make either input, output or
    bidirectional pipes to remote processes.
  - Detailed documentation in Texinfo format with examples included, even more
    examples in 'examples' directory.


* The list of user-visible changes

Here's the list of user-visible changes (an excerpt from NEWS file):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Changes in version 0.10.2 (2016-11-25)
** New procedures
*** New procedure 'channel-send-eof' in (ssh channel)
    The procedure allows to send end-of-file (EOF) on a channel. This action
    doesn't close the channel; you may still read from it but not write.
    'channel-send-eof!' is handy when we deal with a remote command that reads
    data until EOF (such as 'wc'.)
** Documentation
*** Add procedure index
** Misc
*** Fixed several compilation warnings
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Happy hacking!

- Artyom

[1] https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0x0898A02F&op=index
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
[3] https://www.libssh.org/

-- 
Artyom V. Poptsov <address@hidden>;  GPG Key: 0898A02F
Home page: http://poptsov-artyom.narod.ru/

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