[clamav-users] Is 1.0.4 now ready?

[Frans de Boer]

On 8/5/21 5:27 PM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
> Hi Gene,
>
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Gene Heskett via clamav-users wrote:
>
>> Is this new version now ready for prime time build/installation on 
>> common
>> hardware used for linux?
>
> As far as I know, as yet there's been no update to the current release
> candidate.  There have been a couple of contributions on the list very
> recently (the last day or two) which I guess you've seen.  There seem
> to have been a few issues building 0.104 - more about cmake than about
> ClamAV itself.  I haven't seen anyone say that there's been a problem
> with the package once they've built it, but then again not many people
> will have built it.
>
> I built the 0.104 executables to check that I could build using cmake.
> It took a bit of effort.  I haven't personally run any of them after I
> built them - I didn't even run the install step, and I don't plan to
> until after the first full release.
>
>> If so, how about a URL to get the tarball?
>
> I'm sure it will be announced here on the list, and in the blog:
>
> https://blog.clamav.net/
>
> The (first?) release candidate was announced in the blog on July 22
> and it estimated that it would be 2-4 weeks from the release candidate
> to the full release.
>
> AFAICT from NEWS.md there isn't a lot new in version 0.104 apart from
> the change in the build system.  If you're not familiar with the build
> system, and hacking it to get it to do what you want, I'd suggest that
> 0.104 probably isn't ready for you just yet.
>
Others and me have reported some problems. Not with using cmake, but 
with clamav and tests handling links. I tested the entry from git this 
morning, but it is still not solved.

--- Frans.