[Fail2ban-announce] release 0.8.3

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

Hi fail2ban users,

Here is a new release of fail2ban [1]. 0.8.3 should fix the famous
"Unknown error 514" and the wrong PID in fail2ban.pid. There are a few
more fixes and improvements. I have not yet applied all the patches I
received. This will be done in a next release.

Here is the ChangeLog:

ver. 0.8.3 (2008/07/17) - stable
----------
- Process failtickets as long as failmanager is not empty.
- Added "pam-generic" filter and more configuration fixes.
  Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to
  Jim Wight.
- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to
  Christian Jobic who submitted a similar patch.
- Fixed "fail2ban-client get <jail> logpath". Bug #1916986.
- Added gssftpd filter. Thanks to Kevin Zembower.
- Added "Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute:Second" date template.
  Thanks to Dennis Winter.
- Fixed ignoreregex processing in fail2ban-client. Thanks to
  René Berber.
- Added ISO 8601 date/time format.
- Added and changed some logging level and messages.
- Added missing ignoreregex to filters. Thanks to Klaus
  Lehmann.
- Use poll instead of select in asyncore.loop. This should
  solve the "Unknown error 514". Thanks to Michael Geiger and
  Klaus Lehmann.


As always, do not forget to visit the website [2] and contribute to the
documentation.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Regards,

Cyril Jaquier

[1] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.8.3.tar.bz2
[2] http://www.fail2ban.org