Package: clamav Version: 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2 Severity: important Perhaps the version from volatile should be promoted to lenny proper before this date...
etch is also affected but I assume it will be out of support by then. ----- Forwarded message from Luca Gibelli <[email protected]> ----- X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_FAIL autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:36:01 +0200 From: Luca Gibelli <[email protected]> To: [email protected] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: [Clamav-announce] End of Life Announcement: ClamAV 0.94.x Reply-To: [email protected] X-Urchin-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.7 Dear ClamAV users, all ClamAV releases older than 0.95 are affected by a bug in freshclam which prevents incremental updates from working with signatures longer than 980 bytes. You can find more details on this issue on our bugzilla: https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1395 This bug affects our ability to distribute complex signatures (e.g. logical signatures) with incremental updates. So far we haven't released any signatures which exceed this limit. Before we do we want as many users as possible to upgrade to the latest version of ClamAV. Starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than 0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year. This move is needed to push more people to upgrade to 0.95 . We would like to keep on supporting all old versions of our engine, but unfortunately this is no longer possible without causing a disservice to people running a recent release of ClamAV. The traffic generated by a full CVD download, as opposed to an incremental update, cannot be sustained by our mirrors. We plan to start releasing signatures which exceed the 980 bytes limit on May 2010. We recommend that you always run the latest version of ClamAV to get optimal protection, reliability and performance. This message will be sent every two months to remind you to upgrade all of your ClamAV installations in time. Thanks for your cooperation, Best regards -- Luca Gibelli (luca _at_ clamav.net) ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit [Tel] +39 0187 1851862 [Fax] +39 0187 1852252 [IM] nervous/jabber.linux.it PGP key id 5EFC5582 @ any key-server || http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-announce ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
