fail2ban/debian/changelog

fail2ban (0.7.8-1~pre2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Applied post-release changes to resolve issues with gamin and not closed
    on reload log file

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:59:15 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (included most of the debian-provided patches -- new
    filters and actions)
  * Refreshed and made verbatim homepage in description

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  8 Feb 2007 22:20:49 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.6-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Synchronized action.d/iptables-* rules from upstream SVN (closes:
    #407561)
  * Minor: options renames in the comments to be in sync with upstream
  * Use /usr/bin/python interpreter instead of wrapped call to python by
    /usr/bin/env

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:43:59 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * iptables-multiport is default action to take since Debian kernel arrives
    with multiport module. That is to address the fact that most services
    listen on multiple port (for encrypted and non-encrypted connections)
  * Added [courierauth] jail (First 2 items are to partially address #407404

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:35:36 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release, which incorporates fixes introduced in 3~pre
    non-released versions (which were suggested to the users to overcome
    problems reported in bug reports). In particular attention should be paid
    to upstream changelog entries
    - Several "failregex" and "ignoreregex" are now accepted.
      Creation of rules should be easier now.
      This is an alternative solution to 'multiple <HOST>' entries fix,
      which is not applied to this shipped version - pay caution if upgrading
      from 0.7.5-3~pre?
    - Allow comma in action options. The value of the option must
      be escaped with " or '.
      That allowed to implement requested ability to ban multiple ports
      at once (See 373592). README.Debian and jail.conf adjusted to reflect
      possible use of iptables-mport
    - Now Fail2ban goes in /usr/share/fail2ban instead of
      /usr/lib/fail2ban. This is more compliant with FHS.
      Patch 00_share_insteadof_lib no longer applied
  * Refactored installed by debian package jail.conf:
    - Added option banaction which is to incorporate banning agent
      (usually some flavor of iptables rule), which can then be easily
      overriden globally or per section
    - Multiple actions are defined as action_* to serve as shortcuts
  * Initd script was modified to inform about present socket file which
    would forbid fail2ban-server from starting
  * Adjusted default log file for postfix to be /var/log/mail.log
    (Closes: #404921)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  4 Jan 2007 15:24:52 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.5-3~pre6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fail2ban now bans vsftpd logins (corrected logfile path and failregex)
    (Closes: #404060)
  * Made fail2ban-server tollerate multiple <HOST> entries in failregex
  * Moved call to dh_pycentral before dh_installinit
  * Removed unnecessary call of dh_shlibdeps
  * Added filter ssh-ddos to fight DDOS attacks. Must be used with caution
    if there is a possibility of valid clients accessing through
    unreliable connection or faulty firewall (Closes: #404487)
  * Not applying patch any more for rigid python2.4 - it is default now in
    sid/etch
  * Moving waiting loop for fail2ban-server to stop under do_stop
    function, so it gets invoked by both 'restart' and 'stop' commands
  * do_status action of init script is now using 'fail2ban-client ping'
    instead of '... status' since we don't really use returned status
    information, besides the return error code

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:56:58 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * NEWS.Debian confusions - the latest NEWS entry and postinst message were
    rephrased (Closes: #402350)
  * Added mail-whois-lines action, which emails log lines containing abuser
    IP. Those lines are often required for proper abuse reports sent to the
    Internet providers.  Forwarding of such received emails to the email
    addresses of abuse departments present in the output of whois is a
    tentative solution for semi-automatic abuse reporting (Closes: #358810)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:55:37 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release which fixes next issues
   + Socket parameter not work with other path (Closes: #400162)
   + fail2ban does not start with /etc/init.d/fail2ban start but
     with fail2ban-client start (Closes: #400278)
  * Removed obsolete patches left from 0.6
  * Adjusted wsftpd patch to use <HOST> tag to be in line with the other
    filter definitions

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  7 Dec 2006 20:19:09 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added Suggests on mailx and relevant comments in README.Debian about
    invoking mail actions (closes: #396668)
  * Removed obsolete entries in TODO and README
  * README.Debian describes the use of interpolations vs parameters passed
    from jail.{conf,local} into an action definitions (closes:
    #398739)
  * Initial version of postfix filter has been present in 0.7 (closes:
    #377711)
  * Removed Uploaded field from control since I am a DD now. Big thanks to
    Barak Pearlmutter for being the sponsor of my packages for few years.

 -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed,  6 Dec 2006 22:14:26 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added debian/backports to contain patches necessary for backporting. It
    gets used by pbuilder-ssh to create package for backports.org

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon,  4 Dec 2006 08:55:48 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reincarnated logrotate configuration (Closes: #397878)
  * Only block new connects by using a new action iptables-new instead of
    iptables (Closes: #350746)
  * Updated README.Debian to reflect transition over to 0.7 branch and to
    comment on 350746
  * "Clean" target removes generated .pyc files now (Closes: #398146)
  * Cleaned up debian/rules a bit

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:00:18 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added reload/force-reload actions to init script
  * Adjusted jail.conf a bit
  * Warning NEWS entry for 0.7.1 was not shown during installation on test
    boxes, thus postinst was adjusted accordingly to inform the user about the
    changes in the configuration files since 0.6.
  * no logrotation anymore? (Closes: #397878)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:53:23 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed,  1 Nov 2006 20:54:14 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4~pre20061023.2-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Corrected init.d script to properly perform restart due to server delay to
    react to client command to stop. Handling of status was adjusted as well

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:29:27 -0500

fail2ban (0.7.4~pre20061023.2-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added apache-noscript to jail.conf
  * Default action does not send emails to be inline with previous (0.6.x)
    behavior

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:27:20 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.4~pre20061023.2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fresh upstream: fixed a bug with not handling error producing
    actioncheck call

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:00:03 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.4~pre2006102-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Currrent snapshot of trunk
  * Removed outdated (applied in 0.7.4 or specific for 0.6.?) patches
    from debian/patches
  * Adjusted rule to install man pages -- only .1 files since there are also
    h2m sources
  * debian/{rules,control} adjusted to conform all points in recent python
    policy changes
  * install under /usr/share instead of /usr/lib

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:17:55 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.3-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added wuftpd section

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:15:00 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Debian shipped jail.conf
  * Refreshen init.d script

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:17:16 -0400

fail2ban (0.7.1-0.2) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (closes: #370095,#366307)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue,  5 Sep 2006 00:26:08 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted manpage for fail2ban.conf to point to shipped examples of
    configuration files as the source of details about available configuration
    options (closes: #382403)
  * Changes in man/fail2ban.conf.5 are managed via dpatch now

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:18:59 +0300

fail2ban (0.6.1-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted to comply with recent changes in debian python policy and use
    pycentral to byte compile modules
  * Filtered out empty entries for ignoreip to reduce confusing WARNING log
    message
  * Added configuration parameter "locale" to specify LC_TIME for time
    pattern matching (closes: #367990,363391)
  * Verbosity is chosen to be max between cmdline parameters and config file

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  6 Jul 2006 20:19:54 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted rm commands in init script to don't use -r for removal of
    the pidfile (thanks Stephen Gran)
  * Added clarification about multiport banning to README.Debian
    (closes: #373592)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:05:44 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed bashism (arrays) from init.d script to make it POSIX shell
    complient (closes: #368218)
  * Added new proftpd section
  * Added new saslauthd section. Thanks to martin f krafft
    <madduck@debian.org> (closes: #369483)
  * Mentioned apache2 log file in Other. comment field for FILE in 
    apache section.  Nothing has to be changed besides the logfile path to
    work with apache2 (closes: #342144)
    
 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 22 May 2006 15:37:17 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Further fixed debian packaging: to comply with policy empty target
    binary-arch was provided

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 16 May 2006 16:43:37 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted debian packaging:
    - Clean up of debian/rules: removed commented out dh_ scripts which
      definetly will never be used
    - debhelper and dpatch moved to Build-Depends
    - added --no-compile for python setup.py install, and removed explicit
      cleaning of .pyc's
    - fixed separation binary-indep and binary-arch in debian/rules
    - restricted depends on python >= 2.3

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 16 May 2006 15:53:06 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed vsftpd failregexp (closes: #366687)
  * Started to use dpatch

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 10 May 2006 11:45:57 -0400

fail2ban (0.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Assigned maxreinits to 1000 to be reasonable since otherwise logfile grows
    indefinetly if there is a real problem on the system (closes: #359218)
  * Adjusted debian/{copyright,watch}
  * New version of init.d script (Thanks to Aaron Isotton) (closes: #364278)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:55:39 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * In config file added fwchain to ease switching to another input chain
    (closes: #357164)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:11:53 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Minor adjustments to reduce the deviation from the upstream code

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:48:14 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a typo in failregex for SSH section (closes: #356112)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  9 Mar 2006 15:13:48 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated README.Debian with information about some cases with
    not-as-shipped configurations of sshd on the boxes running older versions
    of openssh server
  * Included regexps for SSH in case iff authentication as root using keys was
    attempted whenever PermitRootLogin is set to something else than "yes" and
    key authentication fails
  * Included postrm script to remove log files during purge to comply with
    policy 10.8 (closes: #355443)
 
 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri,  3 Mar 2006 16:32:38 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed Apache section: changed filepath to point at error.log, thus I had
    to revert timeregex and timepattern to user RFC 2822 format (closes:
    #354346)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:56:46 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modifications in README.Debian to reflect a "finding" on
    not-AllowedUsers banning which requires default Debian configuration
    of "ChallengeResponseAuthentication no" and "PasswordAuthentication
    yes"
  * Fixed Apache timeregex and timepattern to confirm
    the fomat of time stamp used in Debian's acccess.log (error.log uses
    RFC 2822 format)
  * Added section ApacheAttacks to specify some common patterns of attacks on
    a webserver (awstats.pl as a try). This section stays split from Apache
    since it is of different nature and might be not appropriate for some
    users
  * Forced owner/permissions of log file to be root:adm/640 in postinst and
    logrotate (closes: #352053)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:05:19 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * ignoreip is now empty by default (closes: #347766)
  * increased verbosity in verbose=2 mode: now prints options accepted
    from the config file
  * to make fail2ban.conf more compact, thus to improve its readability,
    fail2ban.conf was converted to use "interpolations" provided by
    ConfigParser class. fw{start,end,{,un}ban} options were moved into
    DEFAULT section and required options (port, protocol) were added

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:32:14 -0500

fail2ban (0.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * fail2ban path is inserted first in the list to avoid a conflict with
    existing elsewhere modules with the same names. (Thanks for report and
    patch to Nick Craig-Wood) (closes: #343821) 

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:44:58 +0200

fail2ban (0.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merged with the latest stable upstream release. That incure some
    changes for the Debian configuration of the package to be more
    upstream-like. Visible one is: subject in the sent email includes
    section outside of "[Fail2Ban]"
  * Updated README.Debian to answer possible question regarding effective
    bantime starting moment

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:56:41 -0500

fail2ban (0.5.4-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed the order of ssh and apache rules to avoid possible race
    condition (Thanks to Jefferson Cowart for the bug report) (closes:
    #339133)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:44:45 -0500

fail2ban (0.5.4-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed init.d script so it doesn't return non-0 status if fail2ban is not
    running. That fixes issues with purging the package and leaving garbage in
    /usr/share/fail2ban (Thanx to Justin Pryzby for the insight)
    (closes: #337223)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu,  3 Nov 2005 17:05:20 -0500

fail2ban (0.5.4-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added config option MAIL.localtime (closes: #336449)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:53:19 -0500

fail2ban (0.5.4-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted init.d script so it is resistant to delayed shutdowns of
    fail2ban and in general more stable

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:22:03 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.4-6.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typos (thanx to Ross Boylan).
  * Robust startup: if iptables module gets 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: #334272).
  * To overcome possible conflict with other firewall solutions and as a
    secondary solution for the bug 334272, fail2ban startup is moved
    during bootup to the latest (S99) sequenece position. That should not
    cause any discomfort I believe.

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:54:38 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.4-5.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a notification regarding the importance of 0.5.4-5 change of
    failregex in the config file.
  * Adjusted address to FSF.
  * Adjusted failregex for SSH so it bans "Illegal user" entries as well, and
    restricted full failregex more to include ":" at the beginning, because
    otherwise it might not be sufficient and would revive bug 330827 (closes:
    #333056).
  * Adjusted failregex for SSH to accommodate recent changes in logging of
    SSH: Illegal -> Invalid. Should match both now.
  * Fixed a problem of raise AttributeError exception reported as a side
    effect of crash during parsing of the config file.
  * Introduced fwcheck option to verify consistency of the
    chains. Implemented automatic restart of fail2ban main function in
    case check of fwban or fwunban command failed (closes: #329163, #331695).
    (Introduced patch was further adjusted by upstream author).
  * Added -f command line parameter for [findtime].
  * Fixed the issue of not respecting command line parameters for parameters
    within sections.
  * Added -e command line parameter to provide enabled sections from command
    line.
  * Added a cleanup of firewall rules on emergency shutdown when unknown
    exception is catched.
  * Fail2ban should not crash now if a wrong file name is specified in
    config.

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon,  3 Oct 2005 22:26:28 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Made failregex'es more specific to don't allow usernames to be used as a
    tool for denial of service attacks. Config files (or at least
    failregex'es) must be updated from this package, otherwise the security
    breach would remain open and only warning gets issued (closes: #330827)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat,  1 Oct 2005 02:42:23 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.4-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * On a request from Calum Mackay added reporting of the enabled sections

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:20:43 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Resolved the mystery of debug mode in which commands are not really
    executed: added verbose option to config file, removed -v from
    /etc/default/fail2ban, reordered code a bit so that log targets are
    setup right after background and then only loglevel (verbose,debug) is
    processed, so the warning could be seen in the logs

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:20:43 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now exporting PATH explicitely in init.d/fail2ban script, to avoid
    problems finding iptables in the cases when PATH was not exported outside
    (cfengine, broken shell environment) (closes: #329304)
  * Removed -b from start-stop-daemon because fail2ban detahes on its own
  * Added @localhost to MAIL:from and MAIL:to in fail2ban.conf and placed
    a note to README.Debian regarding necessity to specify full email
    address in MAIL:from (closes: #329722)
  * Added a keyword <section> in parsing of the subject and the body of an
    email sent out by fail2ban (closes: #330311)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 27 Sep 2005 08:09:06 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:19:19 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Refined comments in README.Debian
  * Reindented init.d script
  P.S. Was not released

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:19:44 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri,  9 Sep 2005 16:55:00 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Included a patch from Stephen Gildea to provide "status" report by
    init.d script
  * Included a note in README.Debian regarding the fail2ban iptable's
    chains

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri,  9 Sep 2005 14:52:24 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Format of SYSLOG entries is up to the standard now

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:06:44 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed errata in /etc/default/fail2ban (closes: #323451)
  * Fixed handling of SYSLOG logging target. Now it can log to any syslog
    target and facility as directed by the config (revisions 160:166 patch
    from syslog branch) (closes: #323543)
  * Included upstream README and TODO
  * Mentioned in README.Debian that apache section is disabled by default
  * Adjusted man pages to cross-reference each other
  * Moved fail2ban man page under section 8 as in upstream
  * Introduced findtime configuration variable to control the lifetime
    of caught "failed" log entries (closes: #323840)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:23:28 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated description to reflect flexibility in application of fail2ban
  * Included logrotate (Thanks to Baruch Even)

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:51:57 -0400

fail2ban (0.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * No log4py any more
  * removed -i eth0 from config

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat,  6 Aug 2005 09:21:07 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:50:00 -1000

fail2ban (0.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Libraries placed under /usr/share/fail2ban instead of /usr/lib/fail2ban
  * Corrections to the description of the package

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:33:20 -1000

fail2ban (0.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * First upstream release of a Debian package

 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 04 Jul 2005 11:47:23 +0300