OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) Releases Suricata 1.0 NIDS
Jul 04, 2010, 01:04 (0 Talkback[s])
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The OISF development team is proud to announce Suricata
1.0.0, the first stable release of Suricata, the Open Source
Intrusion Detection and Prevention engine.
Get the new release here:
http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/download/suricata-1.0.0.tar.gz
New features
- Support for the tag keyword was added.
- Support for DCERPC over UDP was added.
Improvements
- CUDA was fixed and it's performance was improved a lot
- Fix short HTTP sessions sometimes not being parsed properly.
- Duplicate signatures are now detected, the signature with the
highest revision is used.
- Uricontent inspection was improved.
- alert debuglog now also prints flow information, including
flowbits.
- Pattern searching was improved in general and specially also for
DCE traffic.
Known issues & missing features
As always, we are doing our best to make you aware of continuing
development and items within the engine that are not yet complete
or optimal. With this in mind, please notice the list we have
included of known items we are working on.
See
http://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/issues
for an up to date list and to report new issues. See
http://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Known_issues
for a discussion and time line for the major issues.
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