ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.99 Release Candidate has been posted!
"Joel Esler (jesler)" <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:13:30 +0000
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--===============2619587103409561622== Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_AAA13E3DA36D4880AB957906B5D303DCciscocom_" --_000_AAA13E3DA36D4880AB957906B5D303DCciscocom_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://blog.clamav.net/2015/10/clamav-099-release-candidate-has-been.html ClamAV 0.99 Release Candidate has been posted! ClamAV 0.99 Release Candidate has been posted for download! Please check o= ut the below release notes: This the first release of ClamAV that is being done on both ClamAV.net<http= ://clamav.net> and SourceForge. If you are a package or mirror maintainer,= make sure you start moving your download location from SourceForge over to= ClamAV.net<http://clamav.net>. 0.99-rc1 -------- ClamAV 0.99 contains major new features and changes. YARA rules, Perl Comp= atible Regular Expressions, revamped on-access scanning for Linux, and othe= r new features join the many great features of ClamAV: * Processing of YARA rules(some limitations- see signatures.pdf). * Support in ClamAV logical signatures for many of the features add= ed for YARA, such as Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, alternate strings= , and YARA string attributes. See signatures.pdf for full details. * New and improved on-access scanning for Linux. See the recent blo= g post and clamdoc.pdf for details on the new on-access capabilities. * A new ClamAV API callback function that is invoked when a virus = is found. This is intended primarily for applications running in all-match = mode. Any applications using all-match mode must use the new callback funct= ion to record and report detected viruses. * Configurable default password list to attempt zip file decryption= . * TIFF file support. * Upgrade Windows pthread library to 2.9.1. * A new signature target type for designating signatures to run aga= inst files with unknown file types. * Improved fidelity of the "data loss prevention" heuristic algorit= hm. Code supplied by Bill Parker. * Support for LZMA decompression within Adobe Flash files. * Support for MSO attachments within Microsoft Office 2003 XML file= s. * A new sigtool option(--ascii-normalize) allowing signature author= s to more easily generate normalized versions of ascii files. * Windows installation directories changed from \Program Files\Sour= cefire\ClamAV to \Program Files\ClamAV or \Program Files\ClamAV-x64. PLEASE NOTE: If you are using clamd on-access scanning or have application= s using all-match mode, you will want to review the changes and make any ne= cessary adjustments before using ClamAV 0.99. Users of windows binaries nee= d to be aware of the change of installation directories. Thank you to the ClamAV community members who sent patches and bug reports = included for ClamAV 0.99: Steve Basford Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Bill Parker Andreas Schulze Yann E. Morin Andreas Cadhalpun Dmitry Marakasov Michael Pelletier Felix Groebert -- The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/about.html#credits) -- Joel Esler Manager, Talos Group --_000_AAA13E3DA36D4880AB957906B5D303DCciscocom_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <base> </head> <body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-lin= e-break: after-white-space;" class=3D""> <base class=3D""> <div class=3D"Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass"><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" style=3D"position: relative = !important;"> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"border-left-style: none; color: inherit;= padding: inherit; margin: inherit;" class=3D""> <div class=3D""> <div class=3D"original-url"><a href=3D"http://blog.clamav.net/2015/10/clama= v-099-release-candidate-has-been.html" class=3D"">http://blog.clamav.net/20= 15/10/clamav-099-release-candidate-has-been.html</a><br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> </div> <div id=3D"article" role=3D"article" style=3D"-webkit-locale: en; border-bo= ttom-width: 0px;" class=3D""> <!-- This node will contain a number of div.page. --> <div class=3D"page"> <h1 class=3D"title">ClamAV 0.99 Release Candidate has been posted!</h1> ClamAV 0.99 Release Candidate has been posted for download! Please ch= eck out the below release notes:<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> This the first release of ClamAV that is being done on both <a href=3D"http= ://clamav.net" class=3D""> ClamAV.net</a> and SourceForge. If you are a package or mirror mainta= iner, make sure you start moving your download location from SourceForge ov= er to <a href=3D"http://clamav.net" class=3D"">ClamAV.net</a>.<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> 0.99-rc1<br class=3D""> --------<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> ClamAV 0.99 contains major new features and changes. YARA rules, Perl= Compatible Regular Expressions, revamped on-access scanning for Linux, and= other new features join the many great features of ClamAV:<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> <ul class=3D""> <li class=3D""> Processing of YARA rules(some limitations- see= signatures.pdf). </li><li class=3D""> Support in ClamAV logic= al signatures for many of the features added for YARA, such as Perl Compati= ble Regular Expressions, alternate strings, and YARA string attributes. See= signatures.pdf for full details. </li><li class=3D""> New and improved on-access scanning for L= inux. See the recent blog post and clamdoc.pdf for details on the new on-ac= cess capabilities. </li><li class=3D""> A new ClamAV API callback function that i= s invoked when a virus is found. This is intended primarily for appli= cations running in all-match mode. Any applications using all-match mode mu= st use the new callback function to record and report detected viruses. </li><li class=3D""> Configur= able default password list to attempt zip file decryption. </li><li class=3D""> TIFF file support. </li><li class=3D"">&n= bsp; Upgrade Windows pthread library to 2.9.1. </li><li class=3D"">&= nbsp; A new signature target type for designating signatures to run = against files with unknown file types. </li><li class=3D""> Improved fidelity of the "data loss = prevention" heuristic algorithm. Code supplied by Bill Parker. </li><li class=3D""> Support for LZMA decompression within Ado= be Flash files. </li><li class=3D""> Support for MSO attachmen= ts within Microsoft Office 2003 XML files. </li><li class=3D""> A new sigtool option(--ascii-normalize) a= llowing signature authors to more easily generate normalized versions of as= cii files. </li><li class=3D""> Windows installation directories changed = from \Program Files\Sourcefire\ClamAV to \Program Files\ClamAV or \Program = Files\ClamAV-x64. </li></ul> <br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> PLEASE NOTE: If you are using clamd on-access scanning or have applic= ations using all-match mode, you will want to review the changes and make a= ny necessary adjustments before using ClamAV 0.99. Users of windows binarie= s need to be aware of the change of installation directories.<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> Thank you to the ClamAV community members who sent patches and bug reports = included for ClamAV 0.99:<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> Steve Basford<br class=3D""> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior<br class=3D""> Bill Parker<br class=3D""> Andreas Schulze<br class=3D""> Yann E. Morin<br class=3D""> Andreas Cadhalpun<br class=3D""> Dmitry Marakasov<br class=3D""> Michael Pelletier<br class=3D""> Felix Groebert<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> --<br class=3D""> The ClamAV team (<a href=3D"http://www.clamav.net/about.html#credits" class= =3D"">http://www.clamav.net/about.html#credits</a>) </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> <div class=3D""> <div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; t= ext-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: norm= al; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-w= rap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-= space;" class=3D""> <div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; t= ext-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: norm= al; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-w= rap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-= space;" class=3D""> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande= ';" class=3D""> --</div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande= ';" class=3D""> <b class=3D"">Joel Esler</b></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande= ';" class=3D""> Manager, Talos Group</div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neu= e';" class=3D""> <br class=3D""> </div> </div> </div> <br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> <br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br class=3D""> </body> </html> --_000_AAA13E3DA36D4880AB957906B5D303DCciscocom_-- --===============2619587103409561622== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-announce http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml --===============2619587103409561622==--