ClamAV 0.93 released

[Rick Cooper]

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 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of David Lee
 > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:22 AM
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 > Subject: Re: ClamAV 0.93 released
 > 
 > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
 > 
 > > Leonardo Helman a écrit :
 > > > Hi I'm using clamavmodule
 > > >
 > > >
 > > > I've made a patch for the Mail::ClamAV to compile (later 
 > I'll send it
 > > > to the Mail::ClamAV mantainer)
 > > >
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > Anything new on the official Mail::ClamAV module? I just looked and
 > > version 0.21 still supports maxratio which have been 
 > removed from Clam
 > > 0.93...
 > >
 > > Since there are known exploits for 0.92 I am beginning to 
 > feel the urge
 > > to upgrade to 0.93...
 > 
 > Scott Beck has released version 0.22 of Mail::ClamAV in the 
 > last few days.
 > 
 > Could I suggest that some of us with test facilities and 
 > with a little
 > technical experience try the various combinations of the 
 > older and newer
 > versions of ClamAV and Mail::ClamAV and verify which 
 > combinations work and
 > fail?


There won't be much to test on the new release. As of 0.93 the clam source
dropped several items and replaced (most) with new. The latest Mail::ClamAV
will depend on the new vars when it pulls libclamav so it's not going to
work below version 0.93. This is the reason it must be updated everytime the
clam developers change the internals in a non-backward friendly way (which
is about every time)

Rick

 > 
 >  1. Old+old:  We know that the combined earlier versions work.
 > 
 >  2. New ClamAV + old Mail::ClamAV:  It has been reported that the new
 >     ClamAV (0.93) breaks with older Mail::ClamAV (0.20/0.21).  Could
 >     someone provide details of what this breakage is?  Is 
 > there a quick
 >     recipe to reproduce the problem that ClamAV 0.93 had introduced?
 > 
 >  3. New + new: Julian's Clam+SA package would ultimately be 
 > new+new.  Can
 >     we verify that this fixes any previously verified 
 > breakage?  Also that
 >     it does not seem to introduce any new problems.
 > 
 >  4. Old ClamAV + new Mail::ClamAV: There are inevitably 
 > sites which use
 >     other sources (not Julian's package).  Can we check what 
 > happens with
 >     if someone were to upgrade their Mail::ClamAV module but 
 > leave the
 >     main ClamAV software back on 0.92?  (Probably not too 
 > important, but
 >     it would be a nice data point to complete the set...)
 > 
 > Given Julian's sadly enforced absence from work, I'm sure he would
 > appreciate it if we can do this tabulation for him.
 > 
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