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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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