[mod-security-users] ModSecurity v3.0.4 announcement

[Felipe Z. <fe...@zi...>]

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Hi

It is a pleasure to announce the release of ModSecurity version 3.0.4
(libModSecurity). This version contains a number of improvements in
different areas. These include cleanups, better practices for improved
code readability, resilience and overall performance and security
fixes.

A huge refactoring was placed on the Regex engine, which is now more
performant. The Logging was polished and hex-encoded strings are now
pretty printed. An operator to detect Australian social security
number was added. The audit log is now working with section H and
better dealing with logs, nologs and auditlogs combinations.

POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUES:

- - Cookie parser problems
 [@theMiddleBlue, @airween, @martinhsv]

The list with the full changes can be found on the project CHANGES file,
available here:
- - https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.4/CHANGES

The list of open issues is available on GitHub:
- - https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/labels/3.x

As with every new release, a milestone was created to host all the issues
that will be fixed till we reach the given milestone. With that, we not
only give the community the full transparency of the work that is being
doing on ModSec, but also even more chances to participate. Milestones
give the chance to anyone from the community to deduce when and what will
be released.

Thanks to everybody who helped in this process: reporting issues, making
comments and suggestions, sending patches and so on.

Further details on the compilation process for ModSecurity v3, can be
found on the project README:
 - https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/tree/v3/master#compilation

Complementary documentation for the connectors are available here:
 - nginx: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx/#compilation
 - Apache: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-apache/#compilation

IMPORTANT: ModSecurity version 2 will be available and maintained parallel
to version 3. There is no ETA to deprecate the version 2.x. New features
and major improvements will be implemented on version 3.x. Security or
major bugs are planned to be back ported. Version 2 and version 3 has a
completely independent development/release cycle.


Br.,
Felipe "Zimmerle" Costa

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