ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice [LWN.net]

ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice

Posted Oct 9, 2009 11:41 UTC (Fri) by addw (guest, #1771)
Parent article: ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice

I can't see what the problem is. I don't think that the API/commandline-args/... has changed between 0.94 & 0.95, so a distro upgrading to the latest should not break anything.

Distros tend to be conservative on installing new versions of s/ware since things can break; that doesn't seem to be the case here - so why the fuss ?

My CentOS box is already on 0.95.2, quite when it happened I don't know, I just pull updates automatically from Dag's archive -- nothing broke that I can recall.

Summary: fuss over nothing.

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ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice

Posted Oct 9, 2009 22:39 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Either 0.94.x or 0.95.x (I can't recall which and the horrible way they
maintain their NEWS file makes it very hard to tell) silently changed
clamav-milter to require symbols that aren't present in older versions of
sendmail (8.12.x).

In practice I suspect the number of installations affected numbers in the
tens, if that :)