+* Pppd can now automatically allocate itself a pseudo-tty to use as
+ the serial device. This has made three new options possible:
+
+ - `pty script' will run `script' with its standard input and output
+ connected to the master side of the pty. For example:
+ pppd pty 'ssh -t server.my.net pppd'
+ is a basic command for setting up a PPP link (tunnel) over ssh.
+ (In practice you may need to specify other options such as IP
+ addresses, etc.)
+
+ - `notty' tells pppd to communicate over its standard input and
+ output, which do not have to be a terminal device.
+
+ - `record filename' tells pppd to record all of the characters sent
+ and received over the serial device to a file called `filename'.
+ The data is recorded in a tagged format with timestamps, which can
+ be printed in a readable form with the pppdump program, which is
+ included in this distribution.
+
+* Pppd now logs the connect time and number of bytes sent and received
+ (at the level of the serial device) when the connection is
+ terminated.
+
+* If you use the updetach or nodetach option, pppd will print its
+ messages to standard output as well as logging them with syslog
+ (provided of course pppd isn't using its standard input or output as
+ its serial device).
+
+* There is a new `privgroup groupname' option (a privileged option).
+ If the user running pppd is in group `groupname', s/he can use
+ privileged options without restriction.
+
+* There is a new `receive-all' option, which causes pppd to accept all
+ control characters, even the ones that the peer should be escaping
+ (i.e. the receive asyncmap is 0). This is useful with some buggy
+ peers.
+
+* The default asyncmap is now 0.
+
+* There is a new `sync' option, currently only implemented under
+ Linux, which allows pppd to run on synchronous HDLC devices.
+
+* If a value for the device name or for the connect, disconnect,
+ welcome or pty option is given in a privileged option file
+ (i.e. /etc/ppp/options or a file loaded with the `call' option), it
+ cannot be overridden by a non-privileged user.
+
+* Many bugs have been fixed, notably:
+ - signals are not blocked unnecessarily, as they were in 2.3.6.
+ - the usepeerdns option should work now.
+ - the SPEED environment variable for scripts is set correctly.
+ - the /etc/ppp/auth-down script is not run until auth-up completes.
+ - the device is opened as root if it is the device on standard
+ input.
+ - pppd doesn't die with the ioctl(PPPIOCSASYNCMAP) error under linux
+ if a hangup occurs at the wrong time.
+
+* Some error messages have been changed to be clearer (I hope :-)
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.6.
+**************************
+
+* 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.