News

July 1, 2008 - The NSIS development team releases a new version of version 0.6.0 of the NSIS implementation. The name has been changed to FreeNSIS. This release contains now support for ARM-based handheld devices. The GIST FSM code has been improved to support State Timeouts and teardown of unneeded sessions. For the QoSNSLP the client socket handling has been moved to the RMF. The object structure is updated to the latest draft versions. Doxygen source code documentation has been added to the code. The complete details about the changes can be found in the ChangeLog. The NatFW Source Code is an actual snapshot from the CVS but is incomplete and does not run. It is included for experimental purpose only.

May 16, 2007 - The NSIS development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.5.0 of the NSIS implementation. This release adds missing features and fixes many bugs in the GIST implementation, makes GIST configuration much easier and updates the GIST implementation to version 13 of the GIST draft. In addition the QoS NSLP was updated to version 13 of the draft, many bugs were fixed and missing features added. This release includes initial ResourceManagemantFunctions (RMFs) to do actual resource reservation. The complete details about the changes can be found in the ChangeLog.

September 28, 2006 - NSIS for home users - It's reality!
We are proud to announce the release of a new development version of our NSIS package, that ships with support for Windows XP, as well as OpenWRT.
The Windows XP version is a demonstration prototype, which is able to detect the UDP port used by Skype and trigger the local QoS NSLP deamon to request ressources for phone calls.
In addition, we support OpenWRT, which is a Linux distribution for embedded devices, i.e. broadband Wireless LAN / DSL routers. On a lot of such routers, like the Linksys WRT54G (see the OpenWRT homepage for a list of supported hardware), OpenWRT can be installed as an alternative firmware.
Based on the combination of both new versions, NSIS usage in home networks becomes reality. The Windows machine triggers the request and the DSL router reserves the ressources.
You can find the development versions for all platforms of the NSIS package on the beta versions page.

August 20, 2006 - The NSIS development team is proud to present our new website.

June 04, 2006 - The NSIS development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.4.0 of the NSIS implementation. This release introduces a new buildsystem based on automake and autoconf, as well as support for FreeBSD and Mac OS X. In addition, the release includes major improvements on the QoS and NAT/FW NSLPs. The complete details about the changes can be found in the ChangeLog.