+* Pppd now opens the tty device as the user (rather than as root) if
+ the device name was given by the user, i.e. on the command line or
+ in the ~/.ppprc file. If the device name was given in
+ /etc/ppp/options or in a file loaded with the `call' option, the
+ device is opened as root.
+
+* The default behaviour of pppd is now to let a peer which has not
+ authenticated itself (e.g. your ISP) use any IP address to which the
+ system does not already have a route. (This is currently only
+ supported under Linux, Solaris and Digital Unix; on the other
+ systems, the peer must now authenticate itself unless the noauth
+ option is used.)
+
+* Added new option `usepeerdns', thanks to Nick Walker
+ <nickwalker@email.com>. If the peer supplies DNS addresses, these
+ will be written to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The ip-up script can then
+ be used to add these addresses to /etc/resolv.conf if desired (see
+ the ip-up.local.add and ip-down.local.add files in the scripts
+ directory).
+
+* The Solaris ppp driver should now work correctly on SMP systems.
+
+* Minor corrections so that the code can compile under Solaris 7,
+ and under Linux with glibc-2.1.
+
+* The Linux kernel driver has been restructured for improved
+ performance.
+
+* Pppd now won't start the ip-down script until the ip-up script has
+ finished.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.5.
+**************************
+
+* Minor corrections to the Digital UNIX and NetBSD ports.
+
+* A workaround to avoid tickling a bug in the `se' serial port driver
+on Sun PCI Ultra machines running Solaris.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the negotiation of the Microsoft WINS server address
+option.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the Linux port where it would fail for kernel
+versions above 2.1.99.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.4.
+**************************
+
+* The NeXT port has been updated, thanks to Steve Perkins.
+
+* ppp-2.3.4 compiles and works under Solaris 2.6, using either gcc or
+cc.
+
+* With the Solaris, SVR4 and SunOS ports, you can control the choice
+of C compiler, C compiler options, and installation directories by
+editing the svr4/Makedefs or sunos4/Makedefs file.
+
+* Until now, we have been using the number 24 to identify Deflate
+compression in the CCP negotiations, which was the number in the draft
+RFC describing Deflate. The number actually assigned to Deflate is
+26. The code has been changed to use 26, but to allow the use of 24
+for now for backwards compatibility. (This can be disabled with the
+`nodeflatedraft' option to pppd.)
+
+* Fixed some bugs in the linux driver and deflate compressor which
+were causing compression problems, including corrupting long
+incompressible packets sometimes.
+
+* Fixes to the PAM and shadow password support in pppd, from Al
+Longyear and others.
+
+* Pppd now sets some environment variables for scripts it invokes
+(ip-up/down, auth-ip/down), giving information about the connection.
+The variables it sets are PEERNAME, IPLOCAL, IPREMOTE, UID, DEVICE,
+SPEED, and IFNAME.
+
+* Pppd now has an `updetach' option, which will cause it to detach
+from its controlling terminal once the link has come up (i.e. once it
+is available for IP traffic).
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.3.
+**************************
+
+* Fixed compilation problems under SunOS.
+
+* Fixed a bug introduced into chat in 2.3.2, and compilation problems
+introduced into the MS-CHAP implementation in 2.3.2.
+
+* The linux kernel driver has been updated for recent 2.1-series
+kernel changes, and it now will ask kerneld to load compression
+modules when required, if the kernel is configured to support kerneld.
+
+* Pppd should now compile correctly under linux on systems with glibc.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.2.
+**************************
+
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