[users] Fail2ban 0.8.2

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Hello,

I just got the message that fail2ban 0.8.2 has been released and I was  
pleased to see that this version also runs on Python 2.3, because the  
previous version required Python 2.4. I guess Fail2ban 0.8 can now  
also be packaged for CentOS 4? That would be very nice.

Nils Breunese.

Forwarded message:

> Hi all,
>
> More than 6 months since the last release, 0.8.2 is finally out [1].
> This one contains a lot of fixes and new features. So I hope we have  
> not
> introduced to many bugs. Here are the most important things introduced
> in 0.8.2:
>
> - Added "full line failregex". It is now possible to match a whole  
> line.
> This should avoid deny of service attacks against fail2ban. Currently
> only sshd.conf uses this feature. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
>
> - The default socket location is now /var/run/fail2ban. Do not  
> forget to
> create this directory first. Moreover, fail2ban-server create a PID  
> file
> in this directory.
>
> - New communication server using asyncore/asynchat. Fixes some  
> issues on
> Solaris.
>
> - Python 2.3 support. Fail2ban 0.8.2 now runs with Python 2.3.
>
> - New log rotation detection implementation. Much simpler and less  
> buggy.
>
> There are a lot of other fixes and features. Please look at the
> ChangeLog for all the details [2]. Configuration files from previous  
> 0.8
> releases are compatible with 0.8.2. So I recommend to upgrade to this
> version.
>
> Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cyril Jaquier
>
> [1] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.8.2.tar.bz2
> [2] http://www.fail2ban.org