[Fail2ban-announce] Fail2ban 0.6.1

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

Hi,

Fail2ban 0.6.1 is out. It contains a few bug fixes and some new
features. Have a look at the changelog file for more details. We are now
working on a new version with a lot of new features.

fail2ban-0.6.1 is the current stable version. It has been well tested
and should not contain severe bugs.

ver. 0.6.1 (2006/03/16) - stable
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- Added permanent banning. Set banTime to a negative value to
  enable this feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
- Fixed locale bug. Thanks to Fernando Jos=C3=A9
- Fixed crash when time format does not match data
- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path
  addition to the path search list: now it is added first.
  Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
- Added SMTP authentification for mail notification. Thanks
  to Markus Hoffmann
- Removed debug mode as it is confusing for people
- Added parsing of timestamp in TAI64N format (#1275325).
  Thanks to Mark Edgington
- Added patch #1382936 (Default formatted syslog logging).
  Thanks to Patrick B=F6rjesson
- Removed 192.168.0.0/16 from ignoreip. Attacks could also
  come from the local network.
- Robust startup: if iptables module does not get fully
  initialized after startup of fail2ban, fail2ban will do
  "maxreinit" attempts to initialize its own firewall. It
  will sleep between attempts for "polltime" number of
  seconds (closes Debian: #334272). Thanks to Yaroslav
  Halchenko
- Added "interpolations" in fail2ban.conf. This is provided
  by the ConfigParser module. Old configuration files still
  work. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added initial support for hosts.deny and shorewall. Need
  more testing. Please test. Thanks to kojiro from Gentoo
  forum for hosts.deny support
- Added support for vsftpd. Thanks to zugeschmiert

Homepage: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net

Cyril Jaquier