The Snort Team is pleased to announce the availability of Snort v2.6.1. The software and source code is available at:
http://www.snort.org/dl/
2.6.1 provides new functionality including the following:
* New pattern matcher with a significantly reduced memory footprint
* Introduction of stream5 for experimental use
* Improvements to stream4, including UDP session tracking and optimizations for the reassembly buffer
* Handling for reassembly of SMB fragmented data in DCE/RPC
* An ssh preprocessor for experimental use
* Updated Snort decoder that can decode GRE encapsulated packets
* Output plugin to allow Snort to configure Aruba access control
And:
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Tags: Snort, Intrusion Detection, IDS, Open Source IDS
