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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.6)                                              2011/11/28
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ver. 0.8.6 (2011/11/28) - stable
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----------
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- Fixes:
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  Markos Chandras & Yaroslav Halchenko
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   * [492d8e5,bd658fc] Use hashlib (instead of deprecated md5) where available
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  Robert Trace & Michael Lorant
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   * [c48c2b1] gentoo-initd cleanup and fixes: assure /var/run + remove stale
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     sock file
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  Michael Saavedra
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   * [3a58d0e] Lock server's executeCmd to prevent racing among iptables calls:
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     see http://bugs.debian.org/554162
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  Yaroslav Halchenko
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   * [3eb5e3b] Allow for trailing spaces in sasl logs
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   * [1632244] Stop server-side communication before stopping the
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     jails (prevents lockup if actions use fail2ban-client upon
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	 unban): see https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/7
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   * [5a2d518] Various changes to reincarnate unittests
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  Yehuda
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   * Wiki was cleaned from SPAM
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- Enhancements:
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  Adam Spiers
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   * [3152afb] Recognise time-stamped kernel messages
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  Guido Bozzetto
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   * [713fea6] Added ipmasq rule file to restart fail2ban when iptables are
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     wiped out: see http://bugs.debian.org/461417
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  Łukasz
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   * [5f23542] Matching of month names in Polish (thanks michaelberg79
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     for QA)
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  Tom Hendrikx
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   * [9fa54cf] Added Date: header for sendmail*.conf actions
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  Yaroslav Halchenko & Tom Hendrikx
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   * [b52d420..22b7007] <matches> in action files now can be used
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     to provide matched	loglines which triggered action
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  Yaroslav Halchenko
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   * [ed0bf3a] Removed duplicate entry for DataCha0s/2\.0 in badbots:
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     see http://bugs.debian.org/519557
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   * [dad91f7] sshd.conf: allow user names to have spaces and
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     trailing spaces in the line
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   * [a9be451] removed expansions for few Date and Revision SVN keywords
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   * [a33135c] set/getFile for ticket.py -- found in source distribution
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     of 0.8.4
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   * [fbce415] additional logging while stopping the jails
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ver. 0.8.5 (2011/07/28) - stable
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----------
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- Fix: use addfailregex instead of failregex while processing per-jail
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  "failregex" parameter (Fixed Debian bug #635830, LP: #635036). Thanks to
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  Marat Khayrullin for the patch and Daniel T Chen for forwarding to
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  Debian.
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- Fix: use os.path.join to generate full path - fixes includes in configs
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  given local filename (5 weeks ago) [yarikoptic]
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- Fix: allowed for trailing spaces in proftpd logs
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- Fix: escaped () in pure-ftpd filter. Thanks to Teodor
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- Fix: allowed space in the trailing of failregex for sasl.conf:
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/573314
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- Fix: use /var/run/fail2ban instead of /tmp for temp files in actions:
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/544232
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- Fix: Tai64N stores time in GMT, needed to convert to local time before
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  returning
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- Fix: disabled named-refused-udp jail entirely with a big fat warning
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- Fix: added time module. Bug reported in buanzo's blog:
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  see http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2009/04/fail2ban-patch-ban-ip-address-manually.html
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- Fix: Patch to make log file descriptors cloexec to stop leaking file
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  descriptors on fork/exec. Thanks to Jonathan Underwood:
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  see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230191#c24
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- Enhancement: added author for dovecot filter and pruned unneeded space
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  in the regexp
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- Enhancement: proftpd filter -- if login failed -- count regardless of the
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  reason for failure
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- Enhancement: added <chain> to action.d/iptables*. Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman:
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/515599
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- Enhancement: added filter.d/dovecot.conf from Martin Waschbuesch
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- Enhancement: made filter.d/apache-overflows.conf catch more:
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/574182
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- Enhancement: added dropbear filter from Francis Russell and Zak B. Elep:
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/546913
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- Enhancement: changed default ignoreip to ignore entire loopback zone (/8):
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  see http://bugs.debian.org/598200
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- Minor: spell-checked jail.conf. Thanks to Christoph Anton Mitterer
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- Few minor cosmetic changes
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ver. 0.8.4 (2009/09/07) - stable
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----------
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- Check the inode number for rotation in addition to checking the first line of
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  the file. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens. Red Hat #503852. Tracker #2800279.
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- Moved the shutdown of the logging subsystem out of Server.quit() to
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  the end of Server.start(). Fixes the 'cannot release un-acquired lock'
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  error.
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- Added "Ban IP" command. Thanks to Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman.
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- Added two new filters: lighttpd-fastcgi and php-url-fopen.
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- Fixed the 'unexpected communication error' problem by means of
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  use_poll=False in Python >= 2.6.
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- Merged patches from Debian package. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
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- Use current day and month instead of Jan 1st if both are not available in the
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  log. Thanks to Andreas Itzchak Rehberg.
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- Try to match the regex even if the line does not contain a valid date/time.
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  Described in Debian #491253. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
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- Added/improved filters and date formats.
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- Added actions to report abuse to ISP, DShield and myNetWatchman. Thanks to
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  Russell Odom.
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- Suse init script. Remove socket file on startup is fail2ban crashed. Thanks to
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  Detlef Reichelt.
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- Removed begin-line anchor for "standard" timestamp. Fixed Debian bug #500824.
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- Added nagios script. Thanks to Sebastian Mueller.
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- Added CPanel date format. Thanks to David Collins. Tracker #1967610.
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- Improved SASL filter. Thanks to Loic Pefferkorn. Tracker #2310410.
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- Added NetBSD ipfilter (ipf command) action. Thanks to Ed Ravin. Tracker
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  #2484115.
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- Added cyrus-imap and sieve filters. Thanks to Jan Wagner. Debian bug #513953.
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- Changed <HOST> template to be more restrictive. Debian bug #514163.
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- Use timetuple instead of utctimetuple for ISO 8601. Maybe not a 100% correct
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  fix but seems to work. Tracker #2500276.
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- Made the named-refused regex a bit less restrictive in order to match logs
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  with "view". Thanks to Stephen Gildea.
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- Fixed maxretry/findtime rate. Many thanks to Christos Psonis. Tracker
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  #2019714.
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ver. 0.8.3 (2008/07/17) - stable
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----------
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- Process failtickets as long as failmanager is not empty.
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- Added "pam-generic" filter and more configuration fixes. Thanks to Yaroslav
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  Halchenko.
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- Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to Jim Wight.
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- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to Christian Jobic who
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  submitted a similar patch.
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- Fixed "fail2ban-client get <jail> logpath". Bug #1916986.
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- Added gssftpd filter. Thanks to Kevin Zembower.
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- Added "Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute:Second" date template. Thanks to Dennis
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  Winter.
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- Fixed ignoreregex processing in fail2ban-client. Thanks to René Berber.
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- Added ISO 8601 date/time format.
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- Added and changed some logging level and messages.
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- Added missing ignoreregex to filters. Thanks to Klaus Lehmann.
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- Use poll instead of select in asyncore.loop. This should solve the "Unknown
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  error 514". Thanks to Michael Geiger and Klaus Lehmann.
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ver. 0.8.2 (2008/03/06) - stable
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----------
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- Fixed named filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Fixed wrong path for apache-auth in jail.conf. Thanks to Vincent Deffontaines
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- Fixed timezone bug with epoch date template. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
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- Added "full line failregex" patch. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko. It will be
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  possible to create stronger failregex against log injection
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- Fixed ipfw action script. Thanks to Nick Munger
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- Removed date from logging message when using SYSLOG. Thanks to Iain Lea
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- Fixed "ignore IPs". Only the first value was taken into account. Thanks to
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  Adrien Clerc
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- Moved socket to /var/run/fail2ban.
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- Rewrote the communication server.
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- Refactoring. Reduced number of files.
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- Removed Python 2.4. Minimum required version is now Python 2.3.
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- New log rotation detection algorithm.
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- Print monitored files in status.
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- Create a PID file in /var/run/fail2ban/. Thanks to Julien Perez.
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- Fixed "Feb 29" bug. Thanks to James Andrewartha who pointed this out. Thanks
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  to Yaroslav Halchenko for the fix.
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- "reload <jail>" reloads a single jail and the parameters in fail2ban.conf.
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- Added Mac OS/X startup script. Thanks to Bill Heaton.
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- Absorbed some Debian patches. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
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- Replaced "echo" with "printf" in actions. Fix #1839673
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- Replaced "reject" with "drop" in shorwall action. Fix #1854875
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- Fixed Debian bug #456567, #468477, #462060, #461426
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- readline is now optional in fail2ban-client (not needed in fail2ban-server).
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ver. 0.8.1 (2007/08/14) - stable
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----------
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- Fixed vulnerability in sshd.conf. Thanks to Daniel B. Cid
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- Expand <HOST> in ignoreregex. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Improved regular expressions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko and others
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- Added sendmail actions. The action started with "mail" are now deprecated.
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  Thanks to Raphaël Marichez
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- Added "ignoreregex" support to fail2ban-regex
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- Updated suse-initd and added it to MANIFEST. Thanks to Christian Rauch
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- Tightening up the pid check in redhat-initd. Thanks to David Nutter
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- Added webmin authentication filter. Thanks to Guillaume Delvit
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- Removed textToDns() which is not required anymore. Thanks to Yaroslav
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  Halchenko
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- Added new action iptables-allports. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added "named" date format to date detector. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added filter file for named (bind9). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Fixed vsftpd filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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ver. 0.8.0 (2007/05/03) - stable
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----------
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- Fixed RedHat init script. Thanks to Jonathan Underwood
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- Added Solaris 10 files. Thanks to Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
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ver. 0.7.9 (2007/04/19) - release candidate
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----------
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- Close opened handlers. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Fixed "reload" bug. Many many thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added date format for asctime without year
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- Modified filters config. Thanks to Michael C. Haller
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- Fixed a small bug in mail-buffered.conf
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ver. 0.7.8 (2007/03/21) - release candidate
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----------
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- Fixed asctime pattern in datedetector.py
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- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added Suse init script and modified gentoo-initd. Thanks to Christian Rauch
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- Moved every locking statements in a try..finally block
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ver. 0.7.7 (2007/02/08) - release candidate
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----------
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- Added signal handling in fail2ban-client
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- Added a wonderful visual effect when waiting on the server
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- fail2ban-client returns an error code if configuration is not valid
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- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Call Python interpreter directly (instead of using "env")
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- Added file support to fail2ban-regex. Benchmark feature has been removed
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- Added cacti script and template.
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- Added IP list in "status <JAIL>". Thanks to Eric Gerbier
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ver. 0.7.6 (2007/01/04) - beta
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- Added a "sleep 1" in redhat-initd. Thanks to Jim Wight
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- Use /dev/log for SYSLOG output. Thanks to Joerg Sommrey
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- Use numeric output for iptables in "actioncheck"
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- Fixed removal of host in hosts.deny. Thanks to René Berber
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- Added new date format (2006-12-21 06:43:20) and Exim4 filter. Thanks to mEDI
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- Several "failregex" and "ignoreregex" are now accepted. Creation of rules
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  should be easier now.
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- Added license in COPYING. Thanks to Axel Thimm
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- Allow comma in action options. The value of the option must be escaped with "
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  or '. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Now Fail2ban goes in /usr/share/fail2ban instead of /usr/lib/fail2ban. This is
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  more compliant with FHS. Thanks to Axel Thimm and Yaroslav Halchenko
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ver. 0.7.5 (2006/12/07) - beta
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----------
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- Do not ban a host that is currently banned. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- The supported tags in "action(un)ban" are <ip>, <failures> and <time>
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- Fixed refactoring bug (getLastcommand -> getLastAction)
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- Added option "ignoreregex" in filter scripts and jail.conf. Feature Request
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  #1283304
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- Fixed a bug in user defined time regex/pattern
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- Improved documentation
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- Moved version.py and protocol.py to common/
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- Merged "maxtime" option with "findtime"
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- Added "<HOST>" tag support in failregex which matches default IP
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  address/hostname. "(?P<host>\S)" is still valid and supported
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- Fixed exception when calling fail2ban-server with unknown option
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- Fixed Debian bug 400162. The "socket" option is now handled correctly by
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  fail2ban-client
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- Fixed RedHat init script. Thanks to Justin Shore
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- Changed timeout to 30 secondes before assuming the server cannot be started.
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  Thanks to Joël Bertrand
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ver. 0.7.4 (2006/11/01) - beta
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----------
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- Improved configuration files. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added man page for "fail2ban-regex"
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- Moved ban/unban messages from "info" level to "warn"
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- Added "-s" option to specify the socket path and "socket" option in
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  "fail2ban.conf"
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- Added "backend" option in "jail.conf"
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- Added more filters/actions and jail samples. Thanks to Nick Munger, Christoph
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  Haas
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- Improved testing framework
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- Fixed a bug in the return code handling of the executed commands. Thanks to
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  Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Signal handling. There is a bug with join() and signal in Python
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- Better debugging output for "fail2ban-regex"
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- Added support for more date format
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- cPickle does not work with Python 2.5. Use pickle instead (performance is not
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  a problem in our case)
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ver. 0.7.3 (2006/09/28) - beta
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----------
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- Added man pages. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added wildcard support for "logpath"
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- Added Gamin (file and directory monitoring system) support
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- (Re)added "ignoreip" option
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- Added more concurrency protection
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- First attempt at solving bug #1457620 (locale issue)
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- Performance improvements
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- (Re)added permanent banning with banTime < 0
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- Added DNS support to "ignoreip". Feature Request #1285859
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ver. 0.7.2 (2006/09/10) - beta
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----------
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- Refactoring and code cleanup
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- Improved client output
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- Added more get/set commands
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- Added more configuration templates
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- Removed "logpath" and "maxretry" from filter templates. They must be defined
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  in jail.conf now
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- Added interactive mode. Use "-i"
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- Added a date detector. "timeregex" and "timepattern" are no more needed
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- Added "fail2ban-regex". This is a tool to help finding "failregex"
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- Improved server communication. Start a new thread for each incoming request.
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  Fail2ban is not really thread-safe yet
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ver. 0.7.1 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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----------
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- Fixed daemon mode bug
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- Added Gentoo init.d script
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- Fixed path bug when trying to start "fail2ban-server"
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- Fixed reload command
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ver. 0.7.0 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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----------
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- Almost a complete rewrite :) Fail2ban design is really better (IMHO). There is
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  a lot of new features
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- Client/Server architecture
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- Multithreading. Each jail has its own threads: one for the log reading and
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  another for the actions
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- Execute several actions
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- Split configuration files. They are more readable and easy to use
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- failregex uses group (<host>) now. This feature was already present in the
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  Debian package
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- lots of things...
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ver. 0.6.1 (2006/03/16) - stable
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----------
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- Added permanent banning. Set banTime to a negative value to enable this
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  feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
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- Fixed locale bug. Thanks to Fernando José
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- Fixed crash when time format does not match data
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- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path addition to the path
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  search list: now it is added first. Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
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- Added SMTP authentification for mail notification. Thanks to Markus Hoffmann
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- Removed debug mode as it is confusing for people
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- Added parsing of timestamp in TAI64N format (#1275325). Thanks to Mark
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  Edgington
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- Added patch #1382936 (Default formatted syslog logging). Thanks to Patrick
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  B<>rjesson
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- Removed 192.168.0.0/16 from ignoreip. Attacks could also come from the local
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  network.
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- Robust startup: if iptables module does not get fully initialized after
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  startup of fail2ban, fail2ban will do "maxreinit" attempts to initialize its
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  own firewall. It will sleep between attempts for "polltime" number of seconds
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  (closes Debian: #334272). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added "interpolations" in fail2ban.conf. This is provided by the ConfigParser
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  module. Old configuration files still work. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
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- Added initial support for hosts.deny and shorewall. Need more testing. Please
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  test. Thanks to kojiro from Gentoo forum for hosts.deny support
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- Added support for vsftpd. Thanks to zugeschmiert
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ver. 0.6.0 (2005/11/20) - stable
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----------
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
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  * Added an option to report local time (including timezone) or GMT in mail
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    notification.
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ver. 0.5.5 (2005/10/26) - beta
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----------
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
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  * 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- Fixed textToDNS which did not recognize strings like
 | 
						||
  "12-345-67-890.abcd.mnopqr.xyz"
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
ver. 0.3.1 (2005/03/31) - beta
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- 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
 | 
						||
----------
 | 
						||
- Initial release
 |