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OK, so it wasn't ready by mid july (hell, it still isn't!), but there's a lot of work in that MOCKS 0.1.0 thingy. So until the great release (with beer and fireworks and stuff) I'll just update the 0.0.* series from time to time.
Now for what's new in 0.0.2: basically you get to use an upstream proxy, deny connection to MOCKS to people who are mean to you and you get to tell MOCKS which interface it should bind to. Oh yeah, and no more compiler warnigs. I hope...
Ayway, see the CHANGELOG and the README for a detailed description on using MOCKS 0.0.2.

A completely redesigned MOCKS version 0.1.0 is upcoming and I hope it will be ready by mid july 2004.

The new version will include some nifty features such as:
* Basic authentication as well as some basic connection accepting/rejecting rules based on a list of trusted or denied IP addresses
* Traffic control
* Real-time stats displaying (uptime, connections, traffic, etc.)
* Support remote administration and stats displaying via HTTP protocol
* Bounding IP address... read more