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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.10) 2013/06/12
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ver. 0.8.11 (2013/XX/XXX) - loves-unittests
-----------
- Fixes:
Daniel Black & Marcel Dopita
* filter.d/apache-auth -- fixed and apache auth samples provide. closes #286
Yaroslav Halchenko
* filter.d/common.conf -- make colon after [daemon] optional. Closes gh-267
* filter.d/apache-common.conf -- support apache 2.4 more detailed error
log format. Closes gh-268
* Backends changes detection and parsing. Close gh-223 and gh-103:
- Polling backend: detect changes in the files not only based on
mtime, but also on the size and inode. It should allow for
better detection of changes and log rotations on busy servers,
older python 2.4, and file systems with precision of mtime only
up to a second (e.g. ext3).
- All backends, possible race condition: do not read from a file
initially reported empty. Originally could have lead to
accounting for detected log lines multiple times.
Daniel Black & Мернов Георгий
* filter.d/dovecot.conf -- Fix when no TLS enabled - line doesn't end in ,
Daniel Black
* action.d/hostsdeny -- NOTE: new dependancy 'ed'. Switched to use 'ed' across
all platforms to ensure permissions are the same before and after a ban -
closes gh-266. hostsdeny supports daemon_list now too.
Rolf Fokkens
* action.d/dshield.conf and complain.conf -- reorder mailx arguements.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998020
- New Features:
Daniel Black & ykimon
* filter.d/3proxy.conf -- filter added
Daniel Black
* filter.d/exim-spam.conf -- a splitout of exim's spam regexes
with additions for greater control over filtering spam.
* add date expression for apache-2.4 - milliseconds
Christophe Carles & Daniel Black
* filter.d/perdition.conf -- filter added
- Enhancements:
Daniel Black
* filter.d/{asterisk,assp,dovecot,proftpd}.conf -- regex hardening
and extra failure examples in sample logs
* filter.d/apache-auth - added expressions for mod_authz, mod_auth and
mod_auth_digest failures.
Daniel Black & Georgiy Mernov & ftoppi & Мернов Георгий
* filter.d/exim.conf -- regex hardening and extra failure examples in
sample logs
Daniel Black & Sebastian Arcus
* filter.d/asterisk -- more regexes
Yaroslav Halchenko
* fail2ban-regex -- refactored to provide more details (missing and
ignored lines, control over logging, etc) while maintaining look&feel
* fail2ban-client -- log to standard error. Closes gh-264
* Fail to configure if not a single log file was found for an
enabled jail. Closes gh-63
* <HOST> is now enforced to end with an alphanumeric
* filter.d/roundcube-auth.conf -- anchored version
* date matching - for standard asctime formats prefer more detailed
first (thus use year if available)
Alexander Dietrich
* action.d/sendmail-common.conf -- added common sendmail settings file
and made the sender display name configurable
Steven Hiscocks
* filter.d/dovecot - Addition of session, time values and possible blank
user
Zurd and Daniel Black
* filter/named-refused - added refused on zone transfer
* filter.d/{courier{login,smtp},proftpd,sieve,wuftpd,xinetd} - General
regex impovements
* IMPORTANT: 'lighttpd-fastcgi' filter has been renamed to 'suhosin', which
will require changing in jail.{conf,local} if using this filter.
Zurd
* filter.d/postfix - add filter for VRFY failures. closes gh-322.
ver. 0.8.10 (2013/06/12) - wanna-be-secure
-----------
Primarily bugfix and enhancements release, triggered by "bugs" in
apache- filters. If you are relying on listed below apache- filters,
upgrade asap and seek your distributions to patch their fail2ban
distribution with [6ccd5781].
- Fixes: Yaroslav Halchenko
* [6ccd5781] filter.d/apache-{auth,nohome,noscript,overflows} - anchor
failregex at the beginning (and where applicable at the end).
Addresses a possible DoS. Closes gh-248
* action.d/{route,shorewall}.conf - blocktype must be defined
within [Init]. Closes gh-232
- Enhancements
Yaroslav Halchenko
* jail.conf -- assure all jails have actions and remove unused
ports specifications
Terence Namusonge
* config/filter.d/roundcube-auth.conf -- support roundcube 0.9+
Daniel Black
* files/suse-initd -- update to the copy from stock SUSE
silviogarbes & Daniel Black
* Updates to asterisk filter. Closes gh-227/gh-230.
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
* Updates to asterisk to include AUTH_UNKNOWN_DOMAIN. Closes gh-244.
ver. 0.8.9 (2013/05/13) - wanna-be-stable
----------
Originally targeted as a bugfix release, it incorporated many new
enhancements, few new features, and more importantly -- quite extended
tests battery with current 94% coverage (from 56% of 0.8.8).
This release introduces over 200 of non-merge commits from 16
contributors (sorted by number of commits): Yaroslav Halchenko, Daniel
Black, Steven Hiscocks, James Stout, Orion Poplawski, Enrico Labedzki,
ArndRa, hamilton5, pigsyn, Erwan Ben Souiden, Michael Gebetsroither,
Artur Penttinen, blotus, sebres, Nicolas Collignon, Pascal Borreli.
Special Kudos also go to Fabian Wenk, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman, Tom
Hendrikx, Yehuda Katz and other TBN heroes supporting users on
fail2ban-users mailing list and IRC.
- Fixes: Yaroslav Halchenko
* [6f4dad46] python-2.4 is the minimal version.
* [1eb23cf8] do not rely on scripts being under /usr -- might differ e.g.
on Fedora. Closes gh-112. Thanks to Camusensei for the bug report.
* [bf4d4af1] Changes for atomic writes. Thanks to Steven Hiscocks for
insight. Closes gh-103.
* [ab044b75] delay check for the existence of config directory until read.
* [3b4084d4] fixing up for handling of TAI64N timestamps.
* [154aa38e] do not shutdown logging until all jails stop.
* [f2156604] pyinotify -- monitor IN_MOVED_TO events. Closes gh-184.
Thanks to Jon Foster for report and troubleshooting.
Orion Poplawski
* [e4aedfdc00] pyinotify - use bitwise op on masks and do not try tracking
newly created directories.
Nicolas Collignon
* [39667ff6] Avoid leaking file descriptors. Closes gh-167.
Sergey Brester
* [b6bb2f88 and d17b4153] invalid date recognition, irregular because of
sorting template list.
Steven Hiscocks
* [7a442f07] When changing log target with python2.{4,5} handle KeyError.
Closes gh-147, gh-148.
* [b6a68f51] Fix delaction on server side. Closes gh-124.
Daniel Black
* [f0610c01] Allow more that a one word command when changing and Action via
the fail2ban-client. Closes gh-134.
* [945ad3d9] Fix dates on email actions to work in different locals. Closes
gh-70. Thanks to iGeorgeX for the idea.
blotus
* [96eb8986] ' and " should also be escaped in action tags Closes gh-109
Christoph Theis, Nick Hilliard, Daniel Black
* [b3bd877d,cde71080] Make syslog -v and syslog -vv formats work on FreeBSD
- New features:
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [9ba27353] Add support for jail.d/{confilefile} and fail2ban.d/{configfile}
to provide additional flexibility to system adminstrators. Thanks to
beilber for the idea. Closes gh-114.
* [3ce53e87] Add exim filter.
Erwan Ben Souiden
* [d7d5228] add nagios integration documentation and script to ensure
fail2ban is running. Closes gh-166.
Artur Penttinen
* [29d0df5] Add mysqld filter. Closes gh-152.
ArndRaphael Brandes
* [bba3fd8] Add Sogo filter. Closes gh-117.
Michael Gebetsriother
* [f9b78ba] Add action route to block at routing level.
Teodor Micu & Yaroslav Halchenko
* [5f2d383] Add roundcube auth filter. Closes Debian bug #699442.
Daniel Black
* [be06b1b] Add action for iptables-ipsets. Closes gh-102.
Nick Munger, Ken Menzel, Daniel Black, Christoph Theis & Fabian Wenk
* [b6d0e8a] Add and enhance the bsd-ipfw action from
FreeBSD ports.
Soulard Morgan
* [f336d9f] Add filter for webmin. Closes gh-99.
Steven Hiscocks
* [..746c7d9] bash interactive shell completions for fail2ban-*'s
Nick Hilliard
* [0c5a9c5] Add pf action.
- Enhancements:
Enrico Labedzki
* [24a8d07] Added new date format for ASSP SMTP Proxy.
Steven Hiscocks
* [3d6791f] Ensure restart of Actions after a check fails occurs
consistently. Closes gh-172.
* [MANY] Improvements to test cases, travis, and code coverage (coveralls).
* [b36835f] Add get cinfo to fail2ban-client. Closes gh-124.
* [ce3ab34] Added ability to specify PID file.
Orion Poplawski
* [ddebcab] Enhance fail2ban.service definition dependencies and Pidfile.
Closes gh-142.
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [MANY] Lots of improvements to log messages, man pages and test cases.
* [91d5736] Postfix filter improvements - empty helo, from and rcpt to.
Closes gh-126. Bug report by Michael Heuberger.
* [40c5a2d] adding more of diagnostic messages into -client while starting
the daemon.
* [8e63d4c] Compare against None with 'is' instead of '=='.
* [6fef85f] Strip CR and LF while analyzing the log line
Daniel Black
* [3aeb1a9] Add jail.conf manual page. Closes gh-143.
* [MANY] man page edits.
* [7cd6dab] Added help command to fail2ban-client.
* [c8c7b0b,23bbc60] Better logging of log file read errors.
* [3665e6d] Added code coverage to development process.
* [41b9f7b,32d10e9,39750b8] More complete ssh filter rules to match openssh
source. Also include BSD changes.
* [1d9abd1] Action files can have tags in definition that refer to other
tags.
* [10886e7,cec5da2,adb991a] Change actions to response with ICMP port
unreachable rather than just a drop of the packet.
Pascal Borreli
* [a2b29b4] Fixed lots of typos in config files and documentation.
hamilton5
* [7ede1e8] Update dovecot filter config.
Romain Riviere
* [0ac8746] Enhance named-refused filter for views.
James Stout
* [..2143cdf] Solaris support enhancements:
- README.Solaris
- failregex'es tune ups (sshd.conf)
- hostsdeny: do not rely on support of '-i' in sed
ver. 0.8.8 (2012/12/06) - stable
----------
- Fixes:
Alan Jenkins
* [8c38907] Removed 'POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT' from sshd filter to avoid
banning due to misconfigured DNS. Closes gh-64
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [83109bc] IMPORTANT: escape the content of <matches> (if used in
custom action files) since its value could contain arbitrary
symbols. Thanks for discovery go to the NBS System security
team
* [0935566,5becaf8] Various python 2.4 and 2.5 compatibility fixes. Closes gh-83
* [b159eab] do not enable pyinotify backend if pyinotify < 0.8.3
* [37a2e59] store IP as a base, non-unicode str to avoid spurious messages
in the console. Closes gh-91
- New features:
David Engeset
* [2d672d1,6288ec2] 'unbanip' command for the client + avoidance of touching
the log file to take 'banip' or 'unbanip' in effect. Closes gh-81, gh-86
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Enhancements:
* [2d66f31] replaced uninformative "Invalid command" message with warning log
exception why command actually failed
* [958a1b0] improved failregex to "support" auth.backend = "htdigest"
* [9e7a3b7] until we make it proper module -- adjusted sys.path only if
system-wide run
* [f52ba99] downgraded "already banned" from WARN to INFO level. Closes gh-79
* [f105379] added hints into the log on some failure return codes (e.g. 0x7f00
for this gh-87)
* Various others: travis-ci integration, script to run tests
against all available Python versions, etc
ver. 0.8.7.1 (2012/07/31) - stable
----------
- Fixes:
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [e9762f3] Removed sneaked in comment on sys.path.insert
ver. 0.8.7 (2012/07/31) - stable
----------
- Fixes:
Tom Hendrikx & Jeremy Olexa
* [0eaa4c2,444e4ac] Fix Gentoo init script: $opts variable is deprecated.
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-899018.html
Chris Reffett
* [a018a26] Fixed addBannedIP to add enough failures to trigger a ban,
rather than just one failure.
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [4c76fb3] allow trailing white-spaces in lighttpd-auth.conf
* [25f1e8d] allow trailing whitespace in few missing it regexes for sshd.conf
* [ed16ecc] enforce "ip" field returned as str, not unicode so that log
message stays non-unicode. Close gh-32
* [b257be4] added %m-%d-%Y pattern + do not add %Y for Feb 29 fix if
already present in the pattern
* [47e956b] replace "|" with "_" in ipmasq-ZZZzzz|fail2ban.rul to be
friend to developers stuck with Windows (Closes gh-66)
* [80b191c] anchor grep regexp in actioncheck to not match partial names
of the jails (Closes: #672228) (Thanks Szépe Viktor for the report)
- New features:
François Boulogne
* [a7cb20e..] add lighttpd-auth filter/jail
Lee Clemens & Yaroslav Halchenko
* [e442503] pyinotify backend (default if backend='auto' and pyinotify
is available)
* [d73a71f,3989d24] usedns parameter for the jails to allow disabling
use of DNS
Tom Hendrikx
* [f94a121..] 'recidive' filter/jail to monitor fail2ban.conf to ban
repeated offenders. Close gh-19
Xavier Devlamynck
* [7d465f9..] Add asterisk support
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
* [de502cf..] allow running fail2ban as non-root user (disabled by
default) via xt_recent. See doc/run-rootless.txt
- Enhancements
Lee Clemens
* [47c03a2] files/nagios - spelling/grammar fixes
* [b083038] updated Free Software Foundation's address
* [9092a63] changed TLDs to invalid domains, in accordance with RFC 2606
* [642d9af,3282f86] reformated printing of jail's name to be consistent
with init's info messages
* [3282f86] uniform use of capitalized Jail in the messages
Leonardo Chiquitto
* [4502adf] Fix comments in dshield.conf and mynetwatchman.conf
to reflect code
* [a7d47e8] Update Free Software Foundation's address
Petr Voralek
* [4007751] catch failed ssh logins due to being listed in DenyUsers.
Close gh-47 (Closes: #669063)
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [MANY] extended and robustified unittests: test different backends
* [d9248a6] refactored Filter's to avoid duplicate functionality
* [7821174] direct users to issues on github
* [d2ffee0..] re-factored fail2ban-regex -- more condensed output by
default with -v to control verbosity
* [b4099da] adjusted header for config/*.conf to mention .local and way
to comment (Thanks Stefano Forli for the note)
* [6ad55f6] added failregex for wu-ftpd to match against syslog instead
of DoS-prone auth.log's rhost (Closes: #514239)
* [2082fee] match possibly present "pam_unix(sshd:auth):" portion for
sshd filter (Closes: #648020)
Yehuda Katz & Yaroslav Halchenko
* [322f53e,bd40cc7] ./DEVELOP -- documentation for developers
ver. 0.8.6 (2011/11/28) - stable
----------
- Fixes:
Markos Chandras & Yaroslav Halchenko
* [492d8e5,bd658fc] Use hashlib (instead of deprecated md5) where available
Robert Trace & Michael Lorant
* [c48c2b1] gentoo-initd cleanup and fixes: assure /var/run + remove stale
sock file
Michael Saavedra
* [3a58d0e] Lock server's executeCmd to prevent racing among iptables calls:
see http://bugs.debian.org/554162
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [3eb5e3b] Allow for trailing spaces in sasl logs
* [1632244] Stop server-side communication before stopping the
jails (prevents lockup if actions use fail2ban-client upon
unban): see https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/7
* [5a2d518] Various changes to reincarnate unittests
Yehuda Katz
* Wiki was cleaned from SPAM
- Enhancements:
Adam Spiers
* [3152afb] Recognise time-stamped kernel messages
Guido Bozzetto
* [713fea6] Added ipmasq rule file to restart fail2ban when iptables are
wiped out: see http://bugs.debian.org/461417
Łukasz
* [5f23542] Matching of month names in Polish (thanks michaelberg79
for QA)
Tom Hendrikx
* [9fa54cf] Added Date: header for sendmail*.conf actions
Yaroslav Halchenko & Tom Hendrikx
* [b52d420..22b7007] <matches> in action files now can be used
to provide matched loglines which triggered action
Yaroslav Halchenko
* [ed0bf3a] Removed duplicate entry for DataCha0s/2\.0 in badbots:
see http://bugs.debian.org/519557
* [dad91f7] sshd.conf: allow user names to have spaces and
trailing spaces in the line
* [a9be451] removed expansions for few Date and Revision SVN keywords
* [a33135c] set/getFile for ticket.py -- found in source distribution
of 0.8.4
* [fbce415] additional logging while stopping the jails
ver. 0.8.5 (2011/07/28) - stable
----------
- Fix: use addfailregex instead of failregex while processing per-jail
"failregex" parameter (Fixed Debian bug #635830, LP: #635036). Thanks to
Marat Khayrullin for the patch and Daniel T Chen for forwarding to
Debian.
- Fix: use os.path.join to generate full path - fixes includes in configs
given local filename (5 weeks ago) [yarikoptic]
- Fix: allowed for trailing spaces in proftpd logs
- Fix: escaped () in pure-ftpd filter. Thanks to Teodor
- Fix: allowed space in the trailing of failregex for sasl.conf:
see http://bugs.debian.org/573314
- Fix: use /var/run/fail2ban instead of /tmp for temp files in actions:
see http://bugs.debian.org/544232
- Fix: Tai64N stores time in GMT, needed to convert to local time before
returning
- Fix: disabled named-refused-udp jail entirely with a big fat warning
- Fix: added time module. Bug reported in buanzo's blog:
see http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2009/04/fail2ban-patch-ban-ip-address-manually.html
- Fix: Patch to make log file descriptors cloexec to stop leaking file
descriptors on fork/exec. Thanks to Jonathan Underwood:
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230191#c24
- Enhancement: added author for dovecot filter and pruned unneeded space
in the regexp
- Enhancement: proftpd filter -- if login failed -- count regardless of the
reason for failure
- Enhancement: added <chain> to action.d/iptables*. Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman:
see http://bugs.debian.org/515599
- Enhancement: added filter.d/dovecot.conf from Martin Waschbuesch
- Enhancement: made filter.d/apache-overflows.conf catch more:
see http://bugs.debian.org/574182
- Enhancement: added dropbear filter from Francis Russell and Zak B. Elep:
see http://bugs.debian.org/546913
- Enhancement: changed default ignoreip to ignore entire loopback zone (/8):
see http://bugs.debian.org/598200
- Minor: spell-checked jail.conf. Thanks to Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Few minor cosmetic changes
ver. 0.8.4 (2009/09/07) - stable
----------
- Check the inode number for rotation in addition to checking the first line of
the file. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens. Red Hat #503852. Tracker #2800279.
- Moved the shutdown of the logging subsystem out of Server.quit() to
the end of Server.start(). Fixes the 'cannot release un-acquired lock'
error.
- Added "Ban IP" command. Thanks to Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman.
- Added two new filters: lighttpd-fastcgi and php-url-fopen.
- Fixed the 'unexpected communication error' problem by means of
use_poll=False in Python >= 2.6.
- Merged patches from Debian package. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Use current day and month instead of Jan 1st if both are not available in the
log. Thanks to Andreas Itzchak Rehberg.
- Try to match the regex even if the line does not contain a valid date/time.
Described in Debian #491253. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Added/improved filters and date formats.
- Added actions to report abuse to ISP, DShield and myNetWatchman. Thanks to
Russell Odom.
- Suse init script. Remove socket file on startup is fail2ban crashed. Thanks to
Detlef Reichelt.
- Removed begin-line anchor for "standard" timestamp. Fixed Debian bug #500824.
- Added nagios script. Thanks to Sebastian Mueller.
- Added CPanel date format. Thanks to David Collins. Tracker #1967610.
- Improved SASL filter. Thanks to Loic Pefferkorn. Tracker #2310410.
- Added NetBSD ipfilter (ipf command) action. Thanks to Ed Ravin. Tracker
#2484115.
- Added cyrus-imap and sieve filters. Thanks to Jan Wagner. Debian bug #513953.
- Changed <HOST> template to be more restrictive. Debian bug #514163.
- Use timetuple instead of utctimetuple for ISO 8601. Maybe not a 100% correct
fix but seems to work. Tracker #2500276.
- Made the named-refused regex a bit less restrictive in order to match logs
with "view". Thanks to Stephen Gildea.
- Fixed maxretry/findtime rate. Many thanks to Christos Psonis. Tracker
#2019714.
ver. 0.8.3 (2008/07/17) - stable
----------
- Process failtickets as long as failmanager is not empty.
- Added "pam-generic" filter and more configuration fixes. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko.
- Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to Jim Wight.
- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to Christian Jobic who
submitted a similar patch.
- Fixed "fail2ban-client get <jail> logpath". Bug #1916986.
- Added gssftpd filter. Thanks to Kevin Zembower.
- Added "Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute:Second" date template. Thanks to Dennis
Winter.
- Fixed ignoreregex processing in fail2ban-client. Thanks to René Berber.
- Added ISO 8601 date/time format.
- Added and changed some logging level and messages.
- Added missing ignoreregex to filters. Thanks to Klaus Lehmann.
- Use poll instead of select in asyncore.loop. This should solve the "Unknown
error 514". Thanks to Michael Geiger and Klaus Lehmann.
ver. 0.8.2 (2008/03/06) - stable
----------
- Fixed named filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Fixed wrong path for apache-auth in jail.conf. Thanks to Vincent Deffontaines
- Fixed timezone bug with epoch date template. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
- Added "full line failregex" patch. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko. It will be
possible to create stronger failregex against log injection
- Fixed ipfw action script. Thanks to Nick Munger
- Removed date from logging message when using SYSLOG. Thanks to Iain Lea
- Fixed "ignore IPs". Only the first value was taken into account. Thanks to
Adrien Clerc
- Moved socket to /var/run/fail2ban.
- Rewrote the communication server.
- Refactoring. Reduced number of files.
- Removed Python 2.4. Minimum required version is now Python 2.3.
- New log rotation detection algorithm.
- Print monitored files in status.
- Create a PID file in /var/run/fail2ban/. Thanks to Julien Perez.
- Fixed "Feb 29" bug. Thanks to James Andrewartha who pointed this out. Thanks
to Yaroslav Halchenko for the fix.
- "reload <jail>" reloads a single jail and the parameters in fail2ban.conf.
- Added Mac OS/X startup script. Thanks to Bill Heaton.
- Absorbed some Debian patches. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Replaced "echo" with "printf" in actions. Fix #1839673
- Replaced "reject" with "drop" in shorwall action. Fix #1854875
- Fixed Debian bug #456567, #468477, #462060, #461426
- readline is now optional in fail2ban-client (not needed in fail2ban-server).
ver. 0.8.1 (2007/08/14) - stable
----------
- Fixed vulnerability in sshd.conf. Thanks to Daniel B. Cid
- Expand <HOST> in ignoreregex. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Improved regular expressions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko and others
- Added sendmail actions. The action started with "mail" are now deprecated.
Thanks to Raphaël Marichez
- Added "ignoreregex" support to fail2ban-regex
- Updated suse-initd and added it to MANIFEST. Thanks to Christian Rauch
- Tightening up the pid check in redhat-initd. Thanks to David Nutter
- Added webmin authentication filter. Thanks to Guillaume Delvit
- Removed textToDns() which is not required anymore. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added new action iptables-allports. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added "named" date format to date detector. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added filter file for named (bind9). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Fixed vsftpd filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.8.0 (2007/05/03) - stable
----------
- Fixed RedHat init script. Thanks to Jonathan Underwood
- Added Solaris 10 files. Thanks to Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
ver. 0.7.9 (2007/04/19) - release candidate
----------
- Close opened handlers. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Fixed "reload" bug. Many many thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added date format for asctime without year
- Modified filters config. Thanks to Michael C. Haller
- Fixed a small bug in mail-buffered.conf
ver. 0.7.8 (2007/03/21) - release candidate
----------
- Fixed asctime pattern in datedetector.py
- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added Suse init script and modified gentoo-initd. Thanks to Christian Rauch
- Moved every locking statements in a try..finally block
ver. 0.7.7 (2007/02/08) - release candidate
----------
- Added signal handling in fail2ban-client
- Added a wonderful visual effect when waiting on the server
- fail2ban-client returns an error code if configuration is not valid
- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Call Python interpreter directly (instead of using "env")
- Added file support to fail2ban-regex. Benchmark feature has been removed
- Added cacti script and template.
- Added IP list in "status <JAIL>". Thanks to Eric Gerbier
ver. 0.7.6 (2007/01/04) - beta
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- Added a "sleep 1" in redhat-initd. Thanks to Jim Wight
- Use /dev/log for SYSLOG output. Thanks to Joerg Sommrey
- Use numeric output for iptables in "actioncheck"
- Fixed removal of host in hosts.deny. Thanks to René Berber
- Added new date format (2006-12-21 06:43:20) and Exim4 filter. Thanks to mEDI
- Several "failregex" and "ignoreregex" are now accepted. Creation of rules
should be easier now.
- Added license in COPYING. Thanks to Axel Thimm
- Allow comma in action options. The value of the option must be escaped with "
or '. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Now Fail2ban goes in /usr/share/fail2ban instead of /usr/lib/fail2ban. This is
more compliant with FHS. Thanks to Axel Thimm and Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.7.5 (2006/12/07) - beta
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- Do not ban a host that is currently banned. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- The supported tags in "action(un)ban" are <ip>, <failures> and <time>
- Fixed refactoring bug (getLastcommand -> getLastAction)
- Added option "ignoreregex" in filter scripts and jail.conf. Feature Request
#1283304
- Fixed a bug in user defined time regex/pattern
- Improved documentation
- Moved version.py and protocol.py to common/
- Merged "maxtime" option with "findtime"
- Added "<HOST>" tag support in failregex which matches default IP
address/hostname. "(?P<host>\S)" is still valid and supported
- Fixed exception when calling fail2ban-server with unknown option
- Fixed Debian bug 400162. The "socket" option is now handled correctly by
fail2ban-client
- Fixed RedHat init script. Thanks to Justin Shore
- Changed timeout to 30 secondes before assuming the server cannot be started.
Thanks to Joël Bertrand
ver. 0.7.4 (2006/11/01) - beta
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- Improved configuration files. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added man page for "fail2ban-regex"
- Moved ban/unban messages from "info" level to "warn"
- Added "-s" option to specify the socket path and "socket" option in
"fail2ban.conf"
- Added "backend" option in "jail.conf"
- Added more filters/actions and jail samples. Thanks to Nick Munger, Christoph
Haas
- Improved testing framework
- Fixed a bug in the return code handling of the executed commands. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Signal handling. There is a bug with join() and signal in Python
- Better debugging output for "fail2ban-regex"
- Added support for more date format
- cPickle does not work with Python 2.5. Use pickle instead (performance is not
a problem in our case)
ver. 0.7.3 (2006/09/28) - beta
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- Added man pages. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added wildcard support for "logpath"
- Added Gamin (file and directory monitoring system) support
- (Re)added "ignoreip" option
- Added more concurrency protection
- First attempt at solving bug #1457620 (locale issue)
- Performance improvements
- (Re)added permanent banning with banTime < 0
- Added DNS support to "ignoreip". Feature Request #1285859
ver. 0.7.2 (2006/09/10) - beta
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- Refactoring and code cleanup
- Improved client output
- Added more get/set commands
- Added more configuration templates
- Removed "logpath" and "maxretry" from filter templates. They must be defined
in jail.conf now
- Added interactive mode. Use "-i"
- Added a date detector. "timeregex" and "timepattern" are no more needed
- Added "fail2ban-regex". This is a tool to help finding "failregex"
- Improved server communication. Start a new thread for each incoming request.
Fail2ban is not really thread-safe yet
ver. 0.7.1 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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- Fixed daemon mode bug
- Added Gentoo init.d script
- Fixed path bug when trying to start "fail2ban-server"
- Fixed reload command
ver. 0.7.0 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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- Almost a complete rewrite :) Fail2ban design is really better (IMHO). There is
a lot of new features
- Client/Server architecture
- Multithreading. Each jail has its own threads: one for the log reading and
another for the actions
- Execute several actions
- Split configuration files. They are more readable and easy to use
- failregex uses group (<host>) now. This feature was already present in the
Debian package
- lots of things...
ver. 0.6.1 (2006/03/16) - stable
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- Added permanent banning. Set banTime to a negative value to enable this
feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
- Fixed locale bug. Thanks to Fernando José
- Fixed crash when time format does not match data
- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path addition to the path
search list: now it is added first. Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
- Added SMTP authentification for mail notification. Thanks to Markus Hoffmann
- Removed debug mode as it is confusing for people
- Added parsing of timestamp in TAI64N format (#1275325). Thanks to Mark
Edgington
- Added patch #1382936 (Default formatted syslog logging). Thanks to Patrick
Börjesson
- Removed 192.168.0.0/16 from ignoreip. Attacks could also come from the local
network.
- Robust startup: if iptables module does not get 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 Debian: #334272). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added "interpolations" in fail2ban.conf. This is provided by the ConfigParser
module. Old configuration files still work. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added initial support for hosts.deny and shorewall. Need more testing. Please
test. Thanks to kojiro from Gentoo forum for hosts.deny support
- Added support for vsftpd. Thanks to zugeschmiert
ver. 0.6.0 (2005/11/20) - stable
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Added an option to report local time (including timezone) or GMT in mail
notification.
ver. 0.5.5 (2005/10/26) - beta
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* 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].
* 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.
* 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
* Added a keyword <section> in parsing of the subject and the body of an email
sent out by fail2ban (closes: #330311)
ver. 0.5.4 (2005/09/13) - beta
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- Fixed bug #1286222.
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Fixed handling of SYSLOG logging target. Now it can log to any SYSLOG target
and facility as directed by the config
* Format of SYSLOG entries fixed to look closer to standard
* Fixed errata in config/gentoo-confd
* Introduced findtime configuration variable to control the lifetime of caught
"failed" log entries
ver. 0.5.3 (2005/09/08) - beta
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- Fixed a bug when overriding "maxfailures" or "bantime". Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added more debug output if an error occurs when sending mail. Thanks to
Stephen Gildea
- Renamed "maxretry" to "maxfailures" and changed default value to 5. Thanks to
Stephen Gildea
- Hopefully fixed bug #1256075
- Fixed bug #1262345
- Fixed exception handling in PIDLock
- Removed warning when using "-V" or "-h" with no config file. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Removed "-i eth0" from config file. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.5.2 (2005/08/06) - beta
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- Better PID lock file handling. Should close #1239562
- Added man pages
- Removed log4py dependency. Use logging module instead
- "maxretry" and "bantime" can be overridden in each section
- Fixed bug #1246278 (excessive memory usage)
- Fixed crash on wrong option value in configuration file
- Changed custom chains to lowercase
ver. 0.5.1 (2005/07/23) - beta
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- Fixed bugs #1241756, #1239557
- Added log targets in configuration file. Removed -l option
- Changed iptables rules in order to create a separated chain for each section
- Fixed static banList in firewall.py
- Added an initd script for Debian. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Check for obsolete files after install
ver. 0.5.0 (2005/07/12) - beta
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- Added support for CIDR mask in ignoreip
- Added mail notification support
- Fixed bug #1234699
- 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 (2005/06/30) - 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 (2005/04/24) - stable
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- Fixed textToDNS which did not recognize strings like
"12-345-67-890.abcd.mnopqr.xyz"
ver. 0.3.1 (2005/03/31) - 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 (2005/02/24) - 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 (2004/11/21) - 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 (2004/10/23) - 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 (2004/10/12) - alpha
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- Initial release