ANNOUNCE: Unstable 4.30.1

[Ken Anderson (Pacific Internet)]

Is this backward compatible with SA 2.63?
Thanks,
Ken A


Julian Field wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> I hope you have all had a good break and that you are feeling calm and
> relaxed now (the mailing list has got quite heated in the past week, not
> good news).
>
> I have just released the first beta release of 4.30.
> I believe I have fixed all the outstanding problems, but I'm sure you will
> correct me if (when!) I'm wrong.
> :-)
>
> Major new changes are
> - Support for SpamAssassin version 3
> - Support for AVG virus scanner
> - Better timeout handling to find failing "Spam Lists" and SpamAssassin
> timing out
> - Zip files can now be located by content or name
> - upgrade_MailScanner_conf doesn't delete all your custom %variables%
> - BitDefender support scripts now handle old and new versions automatically
>
> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
> The full ChangeLog is here:
> * New Features and Improvements *
> - Zip files can now be located either by filename or by file contents, so
>   you can effectively control whether your users can avoid zip file
> checking
>   by renaming ".zip" to "_zip" for example. Note this does not affect virus
>   checking, the contents of zip files will still be scanned for viruses.
>   Note that this works with self-extracting zip files as well. The
>   configuration option is called "Find Archives By Content" and is on by
>   default.
> - The upgrade_MailScanner_conf command now preserves all your custom
>   %variable% settings.
> - Added support for Grisoft AVG virus scanner. Thanks to Rick Cooper for
> his
>   hard work on this.
> - Linux cron job scripts added to tarball distribution.
> - BitDefender wrapper and autoupdate scripts now support both old and new
>   versions without any modifications needed. They find the version
>   automatically.
> - Made the spam tag come before the virus tag on infected messages so that
>   spam can be dumped more easily automatically.
> - Tightened up MIME decoder to catch more of the tests at
> www.testvirus.org.
> - Added support for SpamAssassin version 3.
> - Added new configuration options so that RBL's (and SpamAssassin) can have
>   their network checks disabled is they fail more than a certain
> fraction of
>   the time. This is very good for finding unreliable RBL's that don't
> always
>   fail and are therefore not found by the "max timeouts" settings.
>
> * Fixes *
> - Debian fix for their different dir structure causing problems with
>   update_virus_scanners.
> - Fixed problem where some HTML messages from Yahoo did not have the clean
>   message signature added to their HTML portion.
> - Fixed problem with some systems not rewinding file extraction directory
>   properly.
> - Fix to get rid of zombie processes quickly and cleanly.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
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