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Fail2Ban (version 0.?.?)                           ??/??/2005
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ver. 0.?.? (??/??/2005) - ???
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- Added tags replacement in rules definition. Should allow a
  clean solution for Feature Request #1229479
- Removed "interface" and "firewall" options
- Added start and end commands in the configuration file.
  Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added firewall rules definition in the configuration file
- Cleaned fail2ban.py
- Added an initd script for RedHat/Fedora. Thanks to Andrey
  G. Grozin

ver. 0.4.1 (06/30/2005) - stable
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- Fixed textToDNS method which generated wrong matches for
  "rhost=12-xyz...". Thanks to Tom Pike
- fail2ban.conf modified for readability. Thanks to Iain Lea
- Added an initd script for Gentoo
- Changed default PID lock file location from /tmp to
  /var/run

ver. 0.4.0 (04/24/2005) - stable
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- Fixed textToDNS which did not recognize strings like
  "12-345-67-890.abcd.mnopqr.xyz"

ver. 0.3.1 (03/31/2005) - beta
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- Corrected level of messages
- Added DNS lookup support
- Improved parsing speed. Only parse the new log messages
- Added a second verbose level (-vv)

ver. 0.3.0 (02/24/2005) - beta
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- Re-writting of parts of the code in order to handle several
  log files with different rules
- Removed sshd.py because it is no more needed
- Fixed a bug when exiting with IP in the ban list
- Added PID lock file
- Improved some parts of the code
- Added ipfw-start-rule option (thanks to Robert Edeker)
- Added -k option which kills a currently running Fail2Ban

ver. 0.1.2 (11/21/2004) - beta
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- Add ipfw and ipfwadm support. The rules are taken from
  BlockIt. Thanks to Robert Edeker
- Add -e option which allows to set the interface. Thanks to
  Robert Edeker who reminded me this
- Small code cleaning

ver. 0.1.1 (10/23/2004) - beta
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- Add SIGTERM handler in order to exit nicely when in daemon
  mode
- Add -r option which allows to set the maximum number of
  login failures
- Remove the Metalog class as the log file are not so syslog
  daemon specific
- Rewrite log reader to be service centered. Sshd support
  added. Match "Failed password" and "Illegal user"
- Add /etc/fail2ban.conf configuration support
- Code documentation


ver. 0.1.0 (10/12/2004) - alpha
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- Initial release