[Snort-users] Snort 2.0 rc1 available (fwd)

[Dan Hanson <dhanson () securityfocus com>]

This came across Snort-users, many of you probably saw it, but for anyone
who didn't and likes to play with the shiniest new software versions --

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:48:01 -0500
From: Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net,
  snort-devel () lists sourceforge net,
  snort-announce-admin () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Snort 2.0 rc1 available

The Snort 2.0 release candidate 1 is available for your testing.  We've
been working on and tweaking Snort 2.0 for quite a while now and it's
looking like it's ready to go.  Please download it and check it out at
the earliest opportunity.  If you find any bugs, please read the
doc/BUGS file before submitting a bug report, Snort works on too many
platforms for us to guess at your configuration!

  This version features:

* Higher performance (due to a new pattern matcher and rebuilt
detection engine)
* Better decoders
* Enhanced stream reassembly and defragmentation
* Tons of bug fixes
* Updated rules
* Updated snort.conf
* New detection keywords (byte_test, byte_jump, distance, within) &
stateful pattern matching
* New HTTP flow analyzer
* Enhanced anomaly detection (HTTP, RPC, TCP, IP, etc)
* Better self preservation in stateful sunsystems
* Xrefs fixed
* Flexresp works faster and more effectively
* Better chroot()'ing
* Fixed 802.1q decoding
* Better async state handling
* New alerting option: -A cmg!!

The source tarball is available at
http://www.snort.org/dl/snort-2.0.0rc1.tar.gz.  A win32 build will
follow shortly!

Brought to you by the character ':', the letters 'w' and 'q' and the
number 0x41414141.  Enjoy!

      -Marty

-- 
Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - (410)290-1616
Sourcefire: Snort-based Enterprise Intrusion Detection Infrastructure
roesch () sourcefire com - http://www.sourcefire.com
Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org








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