[mod-security-packagers] ModSecurity version 2.9.0-RC2 announcement

[Felipe C. <FC...@tr...>]

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Hi,

I am proud to announce our second release candidate for version 2.9.0.
The 2.9.0-RC2 contains fixes and improvements.

The source and binaries (and the respective hashes) are available at:
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.0-rc2

SHA256(modsecurity-2.9.0-RC2.tar.gz)= 62bfb04d459a8308bb6850102c9d8f0cca250207749ce5b9465344dda2419993
SHA256(ModSecurityIIS_2.9.0-RC2-32b.msi)= 364a55d2ff6981479694184eaec26404f294ac2131e8494ff478ae5e1aee33d6
SHA256(ModSecurityIIS_2.9.0-RC2-64b.msi)= c5c90fb5eae5d819f641989bcfb2b4230506fb4bb8065034ef0684b8694585dd

We would like to thank you all that helped to test the release candidate one,
you guys did a great job. Thanks!

The most important changes are listed bellow:

Bug fixes and improvements
==========================

* OpenSSL dependency was removed on MS Windows builds. ModSecurity is now using
  Curl with WinSSL.
  [Gregg Smith, Steffen and ModSecurity team]
* ModSecurity now informs about external resources loaded/failed while
  reloading Apache.
  [ModSecurity team]
* Adds missing 'ModSecurity:' prefix in some warnings messages.
  [Walter Hop and ModSecurity team]
* External resources download is now more verbose. Holding the message to be
  displayed when Apache is ready to write on the error_log.
  [ModSecurity team]
* Remote resources loading process is now failing in case of HTTP error.
  [Walter Hop and ModSecurity team]
* Fixed start up crash on Apache with mod_ssl configured. Crash was happening
  during the download of remote resources.
  [Christian Folini, Walter Hop and ModSecurity team]
* Curl is not a mandatory dependency to ModSecurity core anymore.
  [Rainer Jung and ModSecurity team]


Br.,
Felipe "Zimmerle" Costa
Security Researcher, SpiderLabs

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