[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.100.0 beta has been released!

[Paul Kosinski]

Any hope for eliminating the 4 GB file size limit soon? It blocks
scanning many package files (ZIP, et al) and, of course, video files.


On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:03:44 +0000
"Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> http://blog.clamav.net/2018/02/clamav-01000-beta-has-been-released.html
> 
> ClamAV 0.100.0 beta has been released!
> ClamAV 0.100.0-beta is the successor to the previous 0.99.3-beta2.
> The 0.99.3 patch release on January 25th was required to address
> vulnerability fixes in a timely manner, so the features previously
> found in 0.99.3 betas have been bumped to this new version.  If you
> haven’t read it, please read the announcement regarding the version
> number change.
> <http://blog.clamav.net/2018/01/clamav-version-number-adjustment.html>
> 
> The 0.100.0-beta includes all of the feature improvements and bug
> fixes that were in the previous 0.99.3-beta2, plus some additional
> bug fixes and requested improvements that were found by users of the
> previous beta.  These include:
> 
> 
>   *   Eliminating warnings regarding with variables being used before
> being initialized.
>   *   Correcting an issue for those using private mirrors where
> freshclam attempts to pull down the CVD file if the CLD is up-to-date.
>   *   Fixed a bug in the filtering system that caused unexpected
> behavior for signatures that use the case insensitive signatures (:i).
>   *   Increased the max stack size when building ClamAV for non-glibc
> Linux machines (i.e. musl).
>   *   Deprecated the AllowSupplementaryGroups config option in a more
> graceful way.
>   *   Bug fixes to on-access scanning.
>   *   A few other bug fixes.
> 
> 
> We could use community support testing these fixes, of course.  That
> said, our main goal of 0.100.0-beta is to get the community ready for
> the version string change.  Mirror maintainers have been asked to
> verify that ClamAV clients using the 0.100.0 version number in the
> HTTP user agent are not blacklisted by regexes intended to drop
> support for older versions of ClamAV.
> 
> As a disclaimer, 0.100.0-beta isn’t a release candidate because we
> have a few outstanding known issues that we must address prior to the
> 0.100.0 release, and because once the fixes are made we will have to
> complete regression testing.  The known issues blocking release
> include the following:
> 
> 
>   *   The libmspack library install location, name.
> Bug<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11994>
>   *   BlockMax config option may differ slightly from —block-max
> command line option.
> Bug<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11970>
>   *   Using the ./configure --disable-static will still require
> llvm-static. Bug<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11995>
>   *   Improvements in PDF object parsing (in progress).
>   *   Messages when clamscan skips a file due to max file size
> settings, along with corrections to the —help string.
> Bug<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11967>
>   *   Warnings when building on macOS.
> Bugs<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11747>,
> Bugs<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11977>
> 
> Bugs should be brought to our attention via the clamav-devel mailing
> list<https://www.clamav.net/contact#ml> or via
> bugzilla<https://bugzilla.clamav.net/>
> 
> 
> --
> Joel Esler | Talos: Manager |
> jesler at cisco.com<mailto:jesler at cisco.com>