I'm sure most of you have noticed that GNS3 is in a sort of pause at the moment, mostly because we have been very busy but also because there are only 2 "active" remaining members, I and Xavier, since my class mates graduated in February and started new jobs. Xavier concentrates on the administration of the GNS3 servers and services (Apache, mercurial etc.) and I to develop new features.

So we would like to say don't worry, the project is still alive! We are going to improve it soon and add new features. One of the things we would like to improve first is the support. With this goal in mind we created a wiki which need to be filled with labs, howtos etc. Everybody should also be able to correct the documentation. We hope this wiki will be useful for the community and that people will contribute. There are also some interesting videos that have been added on the documentation page

The GNS3 0.5 release is available. It includes bugs fixes and new features:

• Possibility to load .net files of other users (provided that there is a registered IOS image with the same model as the one used in the NET file).
• New detailed tooltips for nodes.
• A minimalist wizard raised when the configuration file is empty.
• A button to insert a picture on the scene.
• Decorative node support for creating network diagrams.
• Ghostios is now supported on remote hypervisors.
• A symbol manager with library support (a howto to create a symbol library will be released).
• Z values can be changed for annotations and inserted pictures.
• Automatic load-balancing on external hypervisors (choose multiple external hypervisors when recording an IOS image).
• New option to bind the hypervisor manager with an address/name other than 'localhost': useful for labs which use local and remote hypervisors.
• The DMG package includes two Dynamips binaries, one for Tiger and one for Leopard

Light simulated host support has been postponed to a future release. More information about future features can be found in the TODO .

We hope you will enjoy this release.

The GNS3 dev team.

After lot of efforts and problems to solve, GNS3 is now available in a DMG package for MacOS. This will avoid you to install and compile the dependencies (Python, Qt, PyQt and SIP) and save you some time.

Please note that languages are not included in this package. I will try to change this in a future release. Since this is the first time I made this kind of package, don't hesitate to report any other problems.

We hope you will appreciate this DMG package.

The GNS3 0.4.1 release is available. It includes bugs fixes and some improvements, among them:

• Corrected "Manual connections" which was broken.
• Moved the option to change a console port in the contextual drop-down menu.
• Some unicode errors have been corrected.
• Avoid to put default iomem and exec_area in .net files.
• Prevent to rename a connected firewall because pemuwrapper does not support removal.
• Check if links are connected to a slot before changing it.
• A new language: Polish.
• Added the possibility to automatically copy a base flash for PIX devices.
• Connections to external hypervisors was broken.
• Added a default RAM setting and a link to check the minimum IOS RAM requirement in IOS images window (the link doesn't work at the moment, it will be usable soon).