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+fail2ban (0.6.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  In this version the new section ApacheAttacks was introduced to ban IPs
+  which are found to run some known attack on the host. For now it captures
+  just awstats related attacks. Besides that to make it function the bug of
+  wrongly specified timeregexp for Apache's access.log file was fixed
+
+ -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:05:07 -0500