Re: [Fail2ban-users] Announcement: sloppy 0.8.5 bugfix release

[Arturo 'B. B. <bu...@bu...>]

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I don't see the need to move to git, but I approve of tagging 0_8_5 :)

On 07/28/2011 11:38 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> N.B. not sure if I have rights to post to f2b-announce but let's see
> 
> Since it has been 2 years since 0.8.4 and since I got tired of adding
> +svn suffix to Debian releases of fail2ban, I have decided to exercise
> my commit rights to fail2ban SVN repository and tagged FAIL2BAN-0_8_5
> release which besides all accumulated fixes got 1 more received from
> Ubuntu... I will try to get in touch with Cyril to see if I could prep
> tarball, otherwise please fetch from SVN.
> 
> Also -- to foster fail2ban evolution I would like to suggest to move
> fail2ban from SVN to GIT on github to ease creation and review of
> contributions.  Ideas/opinions?  I can't promise too much
> activity/attention but at least to keep ball rolling slowly but
> steadily.
> 
> Here is the changelog for 0.8.5:
> 
> ver. 0.8.5 (2011/07/28) - stable
> ----------
> - Fix: use addfailregex instead of failregex while processing per-jail
>   "failregex" parameter (Fixed Debian bug #635830, LP: #635036). Thanks to
>   Marat Khayrullin for the patch and Daniel T Chen for forwarding to
>   Debian.
> - Fix: use os.path.join to generate full path - fixes includes in configs
>   given local filename (5 weeks ago) [yarikoptic]
> - Fix: allowed for trailing spaces in proftpd logs
> - Fix: escaped () in pure-ftpd filter. Thanks to Teodor
> - Fix: allowed space in the trailing of failregex for sasl.conf:
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/573314
> - Fix: use /var/run/fail2ban instead of /tmp for temp files in actions:
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/544232
> - Fix: Tai64N stores time in GMT, needed to convert to local time before
>   returning
> - Fix: disabled named-refused-udp jail entirely with a big fat warning
> - Fix: added time module. Bug reported in buanzo's blog:
>   see http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2009/04/fail2ban-patch-ban-ip-address-manually.html
> - Fix: Patch to make log file descriptors cloexec to stop leaking file
>   descriptors on fork/exec. Thanks to Jonathan Underwood:
>   see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230191#c24
> - Enhancement: added author for dovecot filter and pruned unneeded space
>   in the regexp
> - Enhancement: proftpd filter -- if login failed -- count regardless of the
>   reason for failure
> - Enhancement: added <chain> to action.d/iptables*. Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman:
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/515599
> - Enhancement: added filter.d/dovecot.conf from Martin Waschbuesch
> - Enhancement: made filter.d/apache-overflows.conf catch more:
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/574182
> - Enhancement: added dropbear filter from Francis Russell and Zak B. Elep:
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/546913
> - Enhancement: changed default ignoreip to ignore entire loopback zone (/8):
>   see http://bugs.debian.org/598200
> - Minor: spell-checked jail.conf. Thanks to Christoph Anton Mitterer
> - Few minor cosmetic changes
> 
> 


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