Snort 2.4 Released

[Jennifer Steffens <jennifer.steffens () sourcefire com>]

Hey Everyone,

Snort v2.4 is now officially available. This release includes a number 
of new features, fixes and performance enhancements, including the Frag3 
preprocessor (a target-based IP defragmentation module) and an 
"ftpbounce" rule detection plugin.

With this release, rules are no longer distributed as part of the Snort 
releases, they are available as a separate download from snort.org. This 
was done for three reasons:

1. To better manage the new rules licensing
2. To reduce the size of the engine download
3. To move the thousands of documentation files for the rules into the 
rules tarballs. If you've ever checked Snort out of CVS you'll know why 
this is a Good Thing

Snort tarballs and RPMs as well as detailed set of release notes are 
available at http://www.snort.org/dl.

If you have any feedback, let us know - snort-team () sourcefire com.

Happy Snorting!

Cheers,
Jennifer


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Jennifer Steffens
Director, Product Management - Snort
Sourcefire, Inc

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