This is a release of my forked project, from branch fork.
In addition to the usual maintenance, this adds two new features thanks to contributions from @SunMar. Thank you very much 👏. It also upgrades to the newly released 1.24 version of Go. See below for full changelog, listing all commits since previous fork release.
The primary asset of the release is a direct download link for a ready-to-use build of the application's single executable, as well as an alternative .zip archive containing the same executable. It is built with Go version 1.24.0.
About this fork
This release is from my fork of jstarks/npiperelay, adding some smaller improvements on top of upstream release v0.1.0. The changes are conservative; primary concern is to keep the code updated and secure, considering upstream has not been updated since this first release back in mid 2020. See previous release notes for fork releases starting with v1.0.0 to learn about all changes.
Checksums
The SHA-256 checksums of the binary release assets are published as text file asset npiperelay_checksums.txt. Note that the .zip asset for the amd64 (x64/64-bit) and 386 (x86/32-bit) architectures both contain a single executable with name npiperelay.exe, and it is identical to the .exe asset with same name as the .zip asset, i.e. npiperelay_windows_386.exe and npiperelay_windows_amd64.exe, and should therefore have the same checksum.
These are the SHA-256 checksums of all binary release assets, as published in npiperelay_checksums.txt:
730780838d807d9a0e121e7e77bba2658c140c2276578d28f9608b3fbef6d0c5 npiperelay_windows_386.exe
92dcc8713578fcc1be90bc7ce7a753c7e648cef0faebccd450d62a58725b33ab npiperelay_windows_386.zip
91124fe939feb0cbcf714f91c82d706f92c2ba2de233e574300207870a6a9859 npiperelay_windows_amd64.exe
079be5515bcc150bf774170e182033f5e289a7bdfa10e514d6bf86fd0456da20 npiperelay_windows_amd64.zip
Antivirus
If your local antivirus treats the downloaded archive or executable as suspicious or malicious, you should try to report it as a false positive, e.g. to Symantec on symsubmit.symantec.com (select "Clean software incorrectly detected"). At the time of the release, no security vendors on VirusTotal flagged the asset download urls as malicious, but some very few (well below 10%) did flag the zip archive and executable files themselves (see report for each of the assets in expandable section below). The implementation is less than 300 lines of go code, plus a single, commonly used, third party dependency. The source code is automatically run through vulnerability analysis, using Go's govulncheck and GitHub's CodeQL, and a long list of code quality checks (linters), using golangci-lint (see .golangci.yml for the complete list). If you do worry, you are free to analyse the code yourself, and you can also build the executable locally from source.
Changelog
Commits since previous fork release:
- 8980a7b Upgrade Go version from 1.23 to 1.24
- 46e2047 Add -l argument to limit polling attempts to max 300 (#53)
- 2f1a607 Add support for libassuan file sockets (WinGnuPG support) (#52)
- 543dc70 Bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0
(Application executable in release assets built with Go version 1.24.0).
