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Re: [Snort-devel] Snort 1.8.1 released!


From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw () wittsend com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:33:45 -0400

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:08:14AM -0400, Martin Roesch wrote:
Hi everyone,
     Snort 1.8.1 is available on our brand new web site!  Please head on
over to http://www.snort.org and have a look at the new site and check
out the new release.  For the impatient, you can get the latest tarball
straight from http://www.snort.org/releases/snort-1.8.1-RELEASE.tar.gz.  

        When I go to the "tarball" URL I get bounced to the www.snort.org
home page.  The download section of the site tells me that the correct
URL is really this:

        http://snort.sourcefire.com/releases/snort-1.8.1-RELEASE.tar.gz

        This does seem to work (unlike the last two, beta5 and rc1, which
gave me not found errors the other night) and I've been able to download
it now.   Thanks!

What's new and different about this release, you ask?  Here's the scoop:

* SNMP alerting support added by Glenn Mansfield Keeni & K. Jayanthi
* IDMEF output support compiled in by default now
* regex keyword code repaired, limited regex/wildcards now available in
the rules language
* new packet counters added to Snort stats output for frags and streams
* http_decode preprocessor modified to normalize %u encoding
* new detection modes in frag2, Snort picks up fragmentation 
  attacks (teardrop, etc) much better now
* repaired frag2 IP defragmenter, now highly stable and functional
* tweaks made to stream4 TCP stream reassembler, now highly stable
* Win32 code integrated with main Snort source now
* fix for -r mode crash when no other command line options specified
* fix for logfile names using ":" under win32
* tag code repaired, tags now work as expected (perhaps better even!)
* spp_arpspoof repaired
* stream4 alerts are now off by default
* syslog alerts now support standard GEN:SID:REV data

As always, the cast of characters that made this all possible is a
lengthy list of great people, and I'd like to mention just a few who
were especially helpful and supportive as we got things going for this
release:  Phil Wood, Fyodor Yarochkin, Brian Caswell, Bill Gercken,
Roman Danyliw, Jed Pickel, and Joe McAlerney.  

Enjoy!

     -Marty

--
Martin Roesch
roesch () sourcefire com
http://www.sourcefire.com - http://www.snort.org

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