Bug 681824

Summary:	nc-1.100 is available
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Upstream Release Monitoring <upstream-release-monitoring>
Component:	nc	Assignee:	Petr Šabata <psabata>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	c719711, psabata, rvokal
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Fixed In Version:	nc-1.100-1.fc16	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Description Upstream Release Monitoring 2011-03-03 11:34:35 UTC

Latest upstream release: 1.100
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 1.84
URL: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c?rev=.

Please consult the package update guidelines before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines

More information about the service that created this bug can be found at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring

Comment 1 Account closed by user 2011-03-04 23:30:04 UTC

1.84 is five and a half years old. 1.100 brings more features and bugs fixed.

Comment 2 Petr Šabata 2011-03-07 14:39:00 UTC

If I remember correctly, it wasn't really possible to run new versions of OpenBSD netcat on Linux systems. I was even thinking of switching to some other implementation, though it's hard to choose one.

I'll see what can be done here.

Comment 3 Account closed by user 2011-03-07 16:01:30 UTC

* netcat flavors

 - original:
    http://nc110.sf.net/ 

 - up to date (included in nmap, already in fedora):
    http://nmap.org/ncat/

 - up to date (already in fedora):
    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

 - with transport encryption (unmaintained-2005):
    http://cryptcat.sf.net/

 - gnu (unmaintained-2004):
    http://netcat.sf.net/

 - openbsd(only *BSD ??):
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/


socat or ncat. And they are already in fedora.

Comment 4 Petr Šabata 2011-03-07 16:28:30 UTC

There are currently several packages [1] depending explicitly on this package. There's a chance they would work with socat or ncat without modifications.

Concerning current OpenBSD nc -- it's possible to bend it a little and sacrifice some features. However, having fewer implementations of the same tool sounds definitely better.

[1] $ repoquery --whatrequires nc
nc-0:1.84-23.fc14.x86_64
freenx-server-0:0.7.3-18.fc13.x86_64
lbd-0:0.2-2.fc14.noarch
ldm-0:2.0.46-1.fc12.x86_64
libvirt-client-0:0.8.3-2.fc14.i686
libvirt-client-0:0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
mldonkey-0:3.0.3-1.fc14.x86_64

Comment 5 Petr Šabata 2011-03-08 10:27:30 UTC

Just a note:
Given socat differences and nmap package size, I've decided to keep OpenBSD nc around.