Availability of Snort v2.6.0.1 final and v2.6.1 beta

Hi everybody,

The Snort Team is pleased to announce the availability of Snort
v2.6.0.1.  This release includes a number of improvements including the 
following:

* Added new changes to allow configurable dropping of decoder alerts in 
inline mode
* Added updates to the Oracle database plugin to handle large data blobs 
and graceful disconnection

Snort binaries and tarballs as well as a detailed set of release notes 
are available at: http://www.snort.org/dl/

Important: We've changed the PGP key that we use to sign official 
releases.  You can get the new key at 
http://www.snort.org/dl/pubkeys/public_key_2601


If you have any feedback, let us know - snort-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Additionally, the Snort 2.6.1 beta program has opened.  Source code is 
at http://www.snort.org/got_source/source.html - feel free to grab it. 
Any feedback on the 2.6.1 beta should be sent to 
snort-beta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  2.6.1 will provide new functionality 
including the following:

* New pattern matcher with a significantly reduced memory footprint
* Improvements to stream4, including UDP session tracking and
optimizations for the reassembly buffer
* Handling for reassembly of SMB fragmented data in DCE/RPC

Happy Snorting!

The Snort Release Team
Sourcefire, Inc.


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