[clamav-users] ClamAVR blog: ClamAV 0.99.4 has been released!

[Kees Theunissen]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Andy Schmidt wrote:

>Nah, Brian, in this case it's actually a bug, albeit a "cosmetic" one. I
>have been getting the same misleading error message on every system ever
>since I upgraded to 0.99.4 - so I suspect many, if not all others, have too:
>
>	Thu Mar 08 11:46:31 2018 -> WARNING: Local version: clamav-0.99.4
>Recommended version: 0.99.4

I only saw messages like
  Mar  7 16:41:18 pcict9 freshclam[1311]: Local version: 0.99.3
  Recommended version: 0.99.4
Until I upgraded to a locally compiled 0.99.4 package. After that I
didn't see such warnings anymore -- as expected.

>
>So, thanks Brian, for being the one reporting it. I had "let it slide"
>though, given that they had just hoped to have fixed that same error last
>weekend, when FreshClam thought that even 0.99.3 was recommended instead of
>an already installed 0.99.4.
>
>Clearly there is some imperfect comparison being performed prior to issuing
>this message, when even identical "local" vs. "recommended" versions are
>evaluated as "not equal".

The version strings "clamav-0.99.4" and "0.99.4" are not identical.
The package that you installed seems to have been built with a wrong
version string (including the phrase "clamav-").
How is your version shown by commands like "freshclam --version"
or "clamscan --version"?

~$ freshclam --version
ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar  9 10:13:20 2018
~$ clamscan --version
ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar  9 10:13:20 2018

In your case I would expect somthing like:
ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar  9 10:13:20 2018


Regards,

Kees Theunissen.

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