This is the offical release for Clamav 0.95

Changelog:

- New clamav-milter: The program has been redesigned and rewritten from
scratch. The most notable difference is that the internal mode has been
dropped which means that now a working clamd companion is required.
The milter now also has its own configuration file.

- Clamd extensions: The protocol has been extended to lighten the load
that clamd puts on the system, solve limitations of the old protocol,
and reduce latency when signature updates are received. Fore more
information about the new extensions please see the official
documentation and the upgrade notes.

- Improved API: The API used to program ClamAV's engine (libclamav) has
been redesigned to use modern object-oriented techniques and solves
various API/ABI compatibility issues between old and new releases.
You can find more information in Section 6 of clamdoc.pdf and in
the upgrade notes.

- ClamdTOP: This is a new program that allows system administrators to
monitor clamd. It provides information about the items in the clamd's
queue, clamd's memory usage, and the version of the signature database,
all in real-time and in nice curses-based interface.

- Memory Pool Allocator: Libclamav now includes its own memory pool
allocator based on memory mapping. This new solution replaces the
traditional malloc/free system for the copy of the signatures that
is kept in memory. As a result, clamd requires much less memory,
particularly when signature updates are received and the database is
loaded into memory.

- Unified Option Parser: Prior to version 0.95 each program in ClamAV's
suite of programs had its own set of runtime options. The new general
parser brings consistency of use and validation to these options across
the suite. Some command line switches of clamscan have been renamed
(the old ones will still be accepted but will have no effect and will
result in warnings), please see clamscan(1) and clamscan --help for
the details.


To Upgrade:

yum upgrade clamav

I am getting an error when I try to restart clamd:

Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen: file not found - unrar support unavailable

Anything to worry about?

Same error here:

Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen: file not found - unrar support unavailable

Also freshclam gives some errors:

Make sure /var/clamav is owned by the right user

Mine is own by qscand

You can run the cron job too, that will fix it automatically: /etc/cron.daily/freshclam

I hade to manually remove my /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log which was also owned by qscand:qscand (and empty) for it to work, but now it seems to be working.

edit: I realized I had the wrong permission in freshclam.conf. After updating it to qscand, from clamav, everything and changed ownership, again, to /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log, everything works like a charm!

Unfortunatly it was to soon to bring out the champagne. the error is still there...

Here is the error documented, but as aus-city states in another thread https://atomicrocketturtle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2989, it seems like it need re-compilation...
https://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeNotes095#Caveats

Its been addressed in SVN 4992 and now its up to 4994

https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1476

Scott should be able to build release -5 against the latest SVN and problem, fixed.

Incase your not aware modsec-clamscan.pl needs to be edited due to depreciated option:

clamscan.pl needs changing to drop the depreciated option --disable-summary.

You can do this by editing /usr/bin/modsec-clamscan.pl

Scroll down to $cmd "$CLAMSCAN --stdout -- disable- summary -<$FILE";

And change to:

$cmd "$CLAMSCAN --stdout -<$FILE";

I emailed Michael and asked for a package update to reflect this.

Do you think you could put this in the bugtracker? It would really help a lot

In reference to the unrar library, there are legal issues with our ability to distribute the unrar package at this time. Note this effects everybody, fedora, ubuntu, debian, clamav, etc. We're working on a solution to support rar in ASL going forward. The error message itself is completely benign, it is a warning only.

Just restart clamd, you're running the old clamd if you are getting this error:

ERROR: Command rejected by clamd (wrong clamd version?)

That means you are running the old clamd still and need to restart it so you will be running the new clamd.

and the deprecated error is harmless, it won't break anything. We'll put out an update shortly for that, its not a priority issue unless it breaks something.

Hello,

I just updated my clamd/clamav packages to 0.95 via the atomic (not testing) repository. It works fine, but each time I start clamd, I get this warning:

Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen: file not found - unrar support unavailable

I guess that rar files scan is disabled...
But do you know how to enable it?

Thanks!

A lot of recent discussion on these forums regarding this: search.php?keywords=unrar+support+unavailable

We have a solution for this and its internal QA now. It should be available soon.