ClamAV 0.94 end-of-life announced

[Steve Dodd]

Binary package hint: clamav

Version: 0.94.dfsg.2-1ubuntu0.3~hardy4

The end-of-life of ClamAV 0.94 in April 2010 has been announced:

http://www.clamav.net/2009/10/05/eol-clamav-094/

This version is still present in hardy and hardy-updates. While I understand it is a "universe" package, it would be nice if it would continue to be supported in 8.04 LTS. I see there is a 0.95 package in hardy-backports, which I will test - if no problems are found, perhaps it could be moved into -updates (and maybe even -security?) nearer the deadline ..

Steve

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

The plan is to move them well before the deadline.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Does not affect Jaunty and later.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Intrepid will EOL about the same time this comes up. Unless some other issue forces the question, we won't update it.

[Steve Dodd (anarchetic)]

I upgraded to the -backports version and have noticed no problems - all the client apps that rely on Clam here (a few scripts, a Thunderbird plugin, and the havp scanning proxy) seem to be quite happy.

(The only tiny glitch was having to merge in config file changes due to new and discontinued options - seems to happen fairly often with ClamAV. Would it make sense to go to a system like gdm uses, where user customizations are stored in a separate file, allowing the base config to be changed underneath on version upgrades? A bit of sed magic in the init.d script would probably do the trick..)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Since this is not on the CDs, this isn't tied to the 8.04.4 milestone.

[Imre Gergely (cemc)]

I've been using clamav 0.95 from hardy-backports on my server for a while now (in fact since it made it into backports), haven't had any problems with it sor far.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Dapper and Hardy both were updated to have 0.95.3.