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Fail2Ban (version 0.6.0) 2005/11/20
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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