Clam AntiVirus

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.80rc4

Notes:
0.80rc4
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Improvements in this release include better JPEG exploit verification,
faster base64 decoding, support for GNU tar files, updated on-access scanner,
and others.




Changes:
Mon Oct 11 04:07:41 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * clamd: improve on-access scanning
  * docs: update
  V 0.80rc4

Sun Oct 10 12:11:31 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/mbox.c:	Replace (commented out) perror calls with cli_errmsg

Sun Oct 10 01:12:04 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * configure: check libcurl's version number
  * clamd/others.c: fix compilation error on Solaris (thanks to "Christopher
		    X. Candreva" <chris*westnet.com>)
  * freshclam: display additional info for "SECURITY WARNING: NO SUPPORT..."
	       (requested by Kevin Spicer <kevins*bmrb.co.uk>)

Sat Oct  9 23:11:35 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Correct fix for systems where BINDTODEVICE is not
				supported
			SESSIONS: If the PORT command to clamd fails, reset the
				link

Sat Oct  9 09:03:21 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/mbox.c:	Only use libcurl if the version is >= 7.11

Sat Oct  9 03:07:35 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav/readdb.c: make signature parser more elastic

Fri Oct  8 17:53:30 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * clamd/others.c: improve poll code in is_fd_connected() (Trog)

Thu Oct  7 16:37:04 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Requirement for ScanMail removed since that is no
				longer supported in clamd.conf

Thu Oct  7 12:18:59 BST 2004 (trog)
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  * libclamav/filetypes.c: Add more HTML markers

Thu Oct  7 03:03:26 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * configure: disable support for readdir_r by default (can be enabled with
	       --enable-readdir_r)

Wed Oct  6 21:36:59 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * configure: improve --disable-dns behaviour (patch by Tom G. Christensen
	       <tgc*statsbiblioteket.dk>)

Wed Oct  6 20:48:17 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * freshclam/manager.c: fix download problems with some proxy servers
			 (patch by Alexander Marx <mad-ml*madness.at>)

Wed Oct  6 18:25:46 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav/pe.c: do not report I/O error for small files with empty
		    section

Tue Oct  5 16:45:28 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav:		First draft of RFC1341 code. It is not enabled by
				default. To enable it, locate PARTIAL_DIR
				in libclamav/mbox.c, uncomment the line and set
				that to some nice place.
			Note that it is up to YOU to ensure that the PARTIAL_DIR
				directory is secure and to trim out old files
				in there from time to time.

Tue Oct  5 11:59:09 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/message.c:	Faster base64 decoding

Mon Oct  4 14:48:16 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/untar.c:	Handle GNU tar files

Mon Oct  4 13:38:23 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Fix mails containing viruses being kept twice in
				quarantine; once as 'msg.xxxxxx' and once as
				'msg.xxxxxx.virusname'

Mon Oct  4 13:20:17 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav:		More informative message when scanning PGP encoded
				emails
			PGP encoded emails are now passed through

Mon Oct  4 11:59:02 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Better SMTP message when virus is found
  * libclamav/untar.c:	Handle tar files less than 512 bytes
  * libclamav/mbox.c:	Better error message on RFC2047 decode error

Mon Oct  4 03:09:46 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav/scanners.c: respect file size limit in cli_scanmscab()

Sun Oct  3 17:04:27 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav, clamd: use readdir_r when available

Sat Oct  2 23:02:39 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * configure: improve config file installation (patch by Andrey J. Melnikoff
	       (TEMHOTA) <temnota*kmv.ru>)
  * sigtool: fix --unpack/--unpack-current problem on Cygwin and FreeBSD

Sat Oct  2 18:52:32 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Fix crash if %h is used in a template and --headers is
				not set reported by "Sergey Y. Afonin"
				<asy*kraft-s.ru>

Sat Oct  2 16:41:02 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/table.c:	Fix compilation problem when --enable-debug is not set

Fri Oct  1 14:50:55 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/message.c:	Fixed handling of the end of yEnc attachments

Fri Oct  1 08:57:42 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/mbox.c:	Better error message for 'message/partial' emails

Fri Oct  1 02:28:08 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * clamd: add new directive IdleTimeout (patch by Andrey J. Melnikoff (TEMHOTA)
	   <temnota*kmv.ru>)
  * clamscan/others.c: preserve Mac OS X resource forks in filecopy()
		       (thanks to Remi Mommsen <remigius.mommsen*cern.ch>)
  * cosmetic fixes (thanks to Damian Menscher <menscherr*uiuc.edu>)

Thu Sep 30 22:48:53 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav/mbox.c:	Remove unneeded strdup() calls
			Fix some "filename too long" errors when MailFollowURLs
				is set

Thu Sep 30 20:19:46 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * clamav-milter:	Allow --from with no e-mail address

Thu Sep 30 10:01:25 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav:		Further small speed and size optimisations with MIME
				decoding

Thu Sep 30 09:24:26 BST 2004 (trog)
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  * libclamav/special.c: match obfuscated JPEG files

Thu Sep 30 10:01:23 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav/matcher: handle Exploit.JPEG.Comment.*

Thu Sep 30 02:19:12 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * libclamav/special.c: add cli_check_jpeg_exploit (by Trog)
  * libclamav/matcher.c: add additional check to eliminate false positive
			 matches of Exploit.JPEG.Comment

Tue Sep 28 19:41:39 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * libclamav:		Some small speed and size optimisations in MIME decoding

Tue Sep 28 15:46:18 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * contrib/clamavmon:	No longer multithreaded
  * clamav-milter:	Added support for operating systems without
				SO_BINDTODEVICE

Tue Sep 28 10:57:13 BST 2004 (njh)
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  * contrib/clamavmon:	Added monitor of clamd status