FFE for Clamav 0.96

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: clamav

Clamav 0.96 will be released in the next couple of weeks. The first RC is out now.

So far I've produced a draft package (it builds, but still needs some work on debconf templates for new options) and we've rebuilt all the libclamav rdepends to make sure they build:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-clamav/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=lucid

This update does NOT drive a library transition as we just went from soversion 6.0.4 to 6.1.0.

Upstream changes:

0.96rc1
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This release of ClamAV introduces new malware detection mechanisms and other
significant improvements to the scan engine. The key features include:

    - The Bytecode Interpreter: the interpreter built into LibClamAV allows
      the signature writers to create and distribute very complex detection
      routines and remotely enhance the scanner's functionality

    - Heuristic improvements: improve the PE heuristics detection engine by
      adding support of bogus icons and fake PE header information. In a
      nutshell, ClamAV can now detect malware that tries to disguise itself
      as a harmless application by using the most common Windows program icons.

    - Signature Improvements: logical signature improvements to allow more
      detailed matching and referencing groups of signatures. Additionally,
      improvements to wildcard matching on word boundaries and newlines.

    - Support for new archives: 7zip, InstallShield and CPIO. LibClamAV
      can now transparently unpack and inspect their contents.

    - Support for new executable file formats: 64-bit ELF files and OS X
      Universal Binaries with Mach-O files. Additionally, the PE module
      can now decompress and inspect executables packed with UPX 3.0.

    - Performance improvements: overall performance improvements and memory
      optimizations for a better overall resource utilization experience.

Packaging changes (so far):

clamav (0.96~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1~ppa2) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream RC releease
    - Add OfficialDatabaseOnly option to clamav-freshclam.postinst.in and
      clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add LocalSocketGroup option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add LocalSocketMode option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add CrossFilesystems option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add ClamukoScannerCount option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add BytecodeSecurity opiton to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add DetectionStatsHostID option to clamav-freshclam.postinst.in
    - Add Bytecode option to clamav-freshclam.postinst.in
    - Add MilterSocketGroup option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Add MilterSocketMode option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Add ReportHostname option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Bump libclamav SO version to 6.1.0 in libclamav6.install
    - Drop clamdmon from clamav.examples (no longer shipped by upstream)
    - Drop libclamav.a from libclamav-dev.install, not built by upstream)
    - Update SO version for lintian override for libclamav6
    - Add new Bytecode Testing Tool, usr/bin/clambc, to clamav.install
    - Add build-depends on python and python-setuptools for new test suite

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:54:47 -0500

As usual, I think we definitely want to release with the current clamav version.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

FFe granted, please upload this week to allow padding before beta1.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Uploaded. Waiting for acceptance due to archive freeze.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clamav - 0.96~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1

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clamav (0.96~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream RC - FFE (LP: #537636):
    - Add OfficialDatabaseOnly option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add LocalSocketGroup option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add LocalSocketMode option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add CrossFilesystems option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add ClamukoScannerCount option to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add BytecodeSecurity opiton to clamav-base.postinst.in
    - Add DetectionStatsHostID option to clamav-freshclam.postinst.in
    - Add Bytecode option to clamav-freshclam.postinst.in
    - Add MilterSocketGroup option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Add MilterSocketMode option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Add ReportHostname option to clamav-milter.postinst.in
    - Bump libclamav SO version to 6.1.0 in libclamav6.install
    - Drop clamdmon from clamav.examples (no longer shipped by upstream)
    - Drop libclamav.a from libclamav-dev.install (not built by upstream)
    - Update SO version for lintian override for libclamav6
    - Add new Bytecode Testing Tool, usr/bin/clambc, to clamav.install
    - Add build-depends on python and python-setuptools for new test suite
    - Update debian/copyright for the embedded copy of llvm (using the system
      llvm is not currently feasible)
 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:30:04 -0500