On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 at 14:47:21 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Just in case the stable release managers what to do something about it > and don't know about this yet, clamav upstream are taking some > interesting measures to "encourage" people to upgrade from the now > EOLed 0.94.x series. The mail isn't fully clear, but it seems that > clamav 0.94.x will not work at all from April 15th 2010 and will not > recieve signature updates from May 2010, so I guess removal from > stable/oldstable is in order as well as an announcement of some sort > (DSA perhaps?). > > http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20091006.143601.d27bbd20.en.html >
Sorry, it may seem a little harsh, but the reason is that unless the majority of ClamAV users upgrade to >= 0.95.x, old freshclams will put an excessive load on ClamAV database mirrors and that will harm *all* of ClamAV users, not only the ones running old versions. Best regards -- Tomasz Papszun | And it's only tomek at lodz.tpsa.pl http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros. tomek at clamav.net http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
