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+[[!meta author="guus"]]
+[[!meta date="June 25th 2011"]]
+
+Version 1.1pre1 released.
+
+* Control interface allows control of a running tinc daemon. Used by:
+ * tincctl, a commandline utility
+ * tinc-gui, a preliminary GUI implemented in Python/wxWidgets
+* Code cleanups and reorganization.
+* Repleacable cryptography backend, currently supports OpenSSL and libgcrypt.
+* Use libevent to handle I/O events and timeouts.
+* Use splay trees instead of AVL trees to manage internal datastructures.
+
+This is the first pre-release of the 1.1 branch of tinc. Tinc 1.1 is protocol
+compatible with 1.0.x, but will have large architectural changes and new
+features. Tinc 1.0.x will still be maintained. Please try out this new version,
+and let us know what you think of, and report any bugs you find.