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 authenticating itself to you, of course.)
 
 
-What's new in ppp-2.4.8.
+What's new in ppp-2.5.0.
 ************************
 
+The 2.5.0 release is a major release of pppd which contains breaking 
+changes for third-party plugins, a complete revamp of the build-system
+and that allows for flexibility of configuring features as needed.
+
+In Summary:
+* Support for PEAP authentication by Eivind Næss and Rustam Kovhaev
+* Support for loading PKCS12 certificate envelopes 
+* Adoption of GNU Autoconf / Automake build environment, by Eivind Næss
+  and others.
+* Support for pkgconfig tool has been added by Eivind Næss.
+* Bunch of fixes and cleanup to PPPoE and IPv6 support by Pali Rohár.
+* Major revision to PPPD's Plugin API by Eivind Næss.
+  - Defines in which describes what features was included in pppd
+  - Function now prefixed with explicit ppp_* to indicate it's a 
+    pppd functions being called.
+  - Header files was renamed to better align with their features
+    and use of proper include guards
+  - A pppdconf.h files is supplied to allow third-party use the same
+    feature defines pppd was compiled with.
+  - No extern declarations of internal variable names of pppd, 
+    continued use of these extern variables are considered 
+    unstable.
+* Lots of internal fixes and cleanups for Radius and PPPoE by Jaco Kroon
+* Dropped IPX support, as Linux 5.15 already have dropped support
+  for this protocol.
+* Many more fixes and cleanups.
+
+
+What's new in ppp-2.4.9.
+************************
+
+* Support for new EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) methods:
+  - Support for EAP-TLS, from Jan Just Keijser and others
+  - Support for EAP-MSCHAPv2, from Eivind Næss, Thomas Omerzu, Tijs
+    Van Buggenhout and others
+
+* New pppd options:
+  - chap-timeout
+  - chapms-strip-domain
+  - replacedefaultroute
+  - noreplacedefaultroute
+  - ipv6cp-accept-remote
+  - lcp-echo-adaptive
+  - ip-up-script
+  - ip-down-script
+  - ca
+  - capath
+  - cert
+  - key
+  - crl-dir
+  - crl
+  - max-tls-version
+  - need-peer-eap
+
+* Fixes for CVE-2020-8597 and CVE-2015-3310.
+
+* libpcap is now required when compiling on Linux (previously, if
+  libpcap was not present, pppd would be compiled without packet
+  filtering support).
+
+* The rp-pppoe plugin has been renamed to pppoe, to distinguish it
+  from the upstream rp-pppoe code.  Its options have changed names,
+  but the old names are kept as aliases.
+
+* The configure script now supports cross-compilation.
+
+* Many bug fixes and cleanups.
+  
+
+What was new in ppp-2.4.8.
+**************************
+
 * New pppd options have been added:
   - ifname, to set the name for the PPP interface device
   - defaultroute-metric, to set the metric for the default route