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+openssh (1:7.8p1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.8 includes a number of changes that may affect existing
+  configurations:
+
+   * ssh-keygen(1): Write OpenSSH format private keys by default instead of
+     using OpenSSL's PEM format.  The OpenSSH format, supported in OpenSSH
+     releases since 2014 and described in the PROTOCOL.key file in the
+     source distribution, offers substantially better protection against
+     offline password guessing and supports key comments in private keys.
+     If necessary, it is possible to write old PEM-style keys by adding "-m
+     PEM" to ssh-keygen's arguments when generating or updating a key.
+   * sshd(8): Remove internal support for S/Key multiple factor
+     authentication.  S/Key may still be used via PAM or BSD auth.
+   * ssh(1): Remove vestigial support for running ssh(1) as setuid.  This
+     used to be required for hostbased authentication and the (long gone)
+     rhosts-style authentication, but has not been necessary for a long
+     time.  Attempting to execute ssh as a setuid binary, or with uid !=
+     effective uid will now yield a fatal error at runtime.
+   * sshd(8): The semantics of PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and the similar
+     HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes options have changed.  These now specify
+     signature algorithms that are accepted for their respective
+     authentication mechanism, where previously they specified accepted key
+     types.  This distinction matters when using the RSA/SHA2 signature
+     algorithms "rsa-sha2-256", "rsa-sha2-512" and their certificate
+     counterparts.  Configurations that override these options but omit
+     these algorithm names may cause unexpected authentication failures (no
+     action is required for configurations that accept the default for these
+     options).
+   * sshd(8): The precedence of session environment variables has changed.
+     ~/.ssh/environment and environment="..." options in authorized_keys
+     files can no longer override SSH_* variables set implicitly by sshd.
+   * ssh(1)/sshd(8): The default IPQoS used by ssh/sshd has changed.  They
+     will now use DSCP AF21 for interactive traffic and CS1 for bulk.  For a
+     detailed rationale, please see the commit message:
+     https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/readconf.c#rev1.284
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:13:03 +0100
+
+openssh (1:7.6p1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.6 includes a number of changes that may affect existing
+  configurations:
+
+   * ssh(1): Delete SSH protocol version 1 support, associated configuration
+     options and documentation.
+   * ssh(1)/sshd(8): Remove support for the hmac-ripemd160 MAC.
+   * ssh(1)/sshd(8): Remove support for the arcfour, blowfish and CAST
+     ciphers.
+   * Refuse RSA keys <1024 bits in length and improve reporting for keys
+     that do not meet this requirement.
+   * ssh(1): Do not offer CBC ciphers by default.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Oct 2017 12:36:48 +0100
+
+openssh (1:7.5p1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.5 includes a number of changes that may affect existing
+  configurations:
+
+   * This release deprecates the sshd_config UsePrivilegeSeparation option,
+     thereby making privilege separation mandatory.
+
+   * The format of several log messages emitted by the packet code has
+     changed to include additional information about the user and their
+     authentication state. Software that monitors ssh/sshd logs may need to
+     account for these changes. For example:
+
+       Connection closed by user x 1.1.1.1 port 1234 [preauth]
+       Connection closed by authenticating user x 10.1.1.1 port 1234 [preauth]
+       Connection closed by invalid user x 1.1.1.1 port 1234 [preauth]
+
+     Affected messages include connection closure, timeout, remote
+     disconnection, negotiation failure and some other fatal messages
+     generated by the packet code.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 02 Apr 2017 02:58:01 +0100
+
+openssh (1:7.4p1-7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  This version restores the default for AuthorizedKeysFile to search both
+  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, as was the case in
+  Debian configurations before 1:7.4p1-1.  Upstream intends to phase out
+  searching ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 by default, so you should ensure that
+  you are only using ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, at least for critical
+  administrative access; do not assume that the current default will remain
+  in place forever.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:12:42 +0000
+
+openssh (1:7.4p1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.4 includes a number of changes that may affect existing
+  configurations:
+
+   * ssh(1): Remove 3des-cbc from the client's default proposal.  64-bit
+     block ciphers are not safe in 2016 and we don't want to wait until
+     attacks like SWEET32 are extended to SSH.  As 3des-cbc was the only
+     mandatory cipher in the SSH RFCs, this may cause problems connecting to
+     older devices using the default configuration, but it's highly likely
+     that such devices already need explicit configuration for key exchange
+     and hostkey algorithms already anyway.
+   * sshd(8): Remove support for pre-authentication compression.  Doing
+     compression early in the protocol probably seemed reasonable in the
+     1990s, but today it's clearly a bad idea in terms of both cryptography
+     (cf. multiple compression oracle attacks in TLS) and attack surface.
+     Pre-auth compression support has been disabled by default for >10
+     years.  Support remains in the client.
+   * ssh-agent will refuse to load PKCS#11 modules outside a whitelist of
+     trusted paths by default.  The path whitelist may be specified at
+     run-time.
+   * sshd(8): When a forced-command appears in both a certificate and an
+     authorized keys/principals command= restriction, sshd will now refuse
+     to accept the certificate unless they are identical.  The previous
+     (documented) behaviour of having the certificate forced-command
+     override the other could be a bit confusing and error-prone.
+   * sshd(8): Remove the UseLogin configuration directive and support for
+     having /bin/login manage login sessions.
+
+  The unprivileged sshd process that deals with pre-authentication network
+  traffic is now subject to additional sandboxing restrictions by default:
+  that is, the default sshd_config now sets UsePrivilegeSeparation to
+  "sandbox" rather than "yes".  This has been the case upstream for a while,
+  but until now the Debian configuration diverged unnecessarily.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:01:46 +0000
+
+openssh (1:7.2p1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.2 disables a number of legacy cryptographic algorithms by
+  default in ssh:
+
+   * Several ciphers blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, all arcfour variants and the
+     rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.
+   * MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms.
+
+  These algorithms are already disabled by default in sshd.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:47:20 +0000
+
+openssh (1:7.1p1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  OpenSSH 7.0 disables several pieces of weak, legacy, and/or unsafe
+  cryptography.
+
+   * Support for the legacy SSH version 1 protocol is disabled by default at
+     compile time.  Note that this also means that the Cipher keyword in
+     ssh_config(5) is effectively no longer usable; use Ciphers instead for
+     protocol 2.  The openssh-client-ssh1 package includes "ssh1", "scp1",
+     and "ssh-keygen1" binaries which you can use if you have no alternative
+     way to connect to an outdated SSH1-only server; please contact the
+     server administrator or system vendor in such cases and ask them to
+     upgrade.
+   * Support for the 1024-bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange is
+     disabled by default at run-time.  It may be re-enabled using the
+     instructions at http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html
+   * Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys is disabled by
+     default at run-time.  These may be re-enabled using the instructions at
+     http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html
+   * Support for the legacy v00 cert format has been removed.
+
+  Future releases will retire more legacy cryptography, including:
+
+   * Refusing all RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits (the current minimum is
+     768 bits).
+   * Several ciphers will be disabled by default: blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc,
+     all arcfour variants, and the rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.
+   * MD5-based HMAC algorithms will be disabled by default.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:33:08 +0000
+
+openssh (1:6.9p1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  UseDNS now defaults to 'no'.  Configurations that match against the client
+  host name (via sshd_config or authorized_keys) may need to re-enable it or
+  convert to matching against addresses.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:38:58 +0100
+
+openssh (1:6.7p1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  openssh-server 1:6.7p1-4 changed the default setting of AcceptEnv to list
+  a number of specific LC_FOO variables rather than the wildcard LC_*.  I
+  have since been persuaded that this was a bad idea and have reverted it,
+  but it is difficult to automatically undo the change to
+  /etc/ssh/sshd_config without compounding the problem (that of modifying
+  configuration that some users did not want to be modified) further.  Most
+  users who upgraded via version 1:6.7p1-4 should restore the previous value
+  of "AcceptEnv LANG LC_*" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:09:32 +0000
+
+openssh (1:5.4p1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  Smartcard support is now available using PKCS#11 tokens.  If you were
+  previously using an unofficial build of Debian's OpenSSH package with
+  OpenSC-based smartcard support added, then note that commands like
+  'ssh-add -s 0' will no longer work; you need to use 'ssh-add -s
+  /usr/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so' instead.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:08:59 +0100
+
+openssh (1:3.8.1p1-9) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The ssh package has been split into openssh-client and openssh-server. If
+  you had previously requested that the sshd server should not be run, then
+  that request will still be honoured. However, the recommended approach is
+  now to remove the openssh-server package if you do not want to run sshd.
+  You can remove the old /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run marker file after doing
+  that.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Aug 2004 20:48:54 +0100
+
+openssh (1:3.5p1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  This version of OpenSSH disables the environment option for public keys by
+  default, in order to avoid certain attacks (for example, LD_PRELOAD). If
+  you are using this option in an authorized_keys file, beware that the keys
+  in question will no longer work until the option is removed.
+
+  To re-enable this option, set "PermitUserEnvironment yes" in
+  /etc/ssh/sshd_config after the upgrade is complete, taking note of the
+  warning in the sshd_config(5) manual page.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:41:51 +0100
+
+openssh (1:3.0.1p1-1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  As of version 3, OpenSSH no longer uses separate files for ssh1 and ssh2
+  keys. This means the authorized_keys2 and known_hosts2 files are no longer
+  needed. They will still be read in order to maintain backward
+  compatibility.
+
+ -- Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Nov 2001 17:43:01 +0000