[Fail2ban-announce] Fail2Ban 0.5.5

[Cyril J. <cyr...@bl...>]

Hi,

0.5.5 is out. I planned a stable release for september. However, we
decided to fix some issues before 0.6. Have a look at the changelog for
more informations. I will not promise anymore that this is the last one
before stable ;-) Please test it and report any problem. Many thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko who did most of the changes found in this release.

Please do not forget to remove your previous 0.4.x version before
upgrading to 0.5.x and update your configuration file.

fail2ban-0.5.5 is still a testing version but should work perfectly.

ver. 0.5.5 (2005/10/26) - beta
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer
  (Yaroslav Halchenko):
  * Introduced fwcheck option to verify consistency of the
    chains. Implemented automatic restart of fail2ban main
    function in case check of fwban or fwunban command failed
    (closes: #329163, #331695). (Introduced patch was further
    adjusted by upstream author).
  * Added -f command line parameter for [findtime].
  * Added a cleanup of firewall rules on emergency shutdown
    when unknown exception is catched.
  * Fail2ban should not crash now if a wrong file name is
    specified in config.
  * reordered code a bit so that log targets are setup right
    after background and then only loglevel (verbose, debug)
    is processed, so the warning could be seen in the logs
  * Added a keyword <section> in parsing of the subject and
    the body of an email sent out by fail2ban (closes:
    #330311)

Homepage: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net

Cyril