If you are looking for a way to help the project, here is your chance. We just release the first beta for the 1.1 version and we need beta testers. This version has numerous bug fixes and new features, so a great deal of QA will be required. If you try it out, let us know if it worked or not (and provide the operating system/version that you used).
Partial changelog:Added support for hostnames in the server-ip configuration. Use “server-hostname” to specify it.Added granular e-mail configuration options. Extra email_alerts options can be added based on the severity or event location.Added support for Solaris 10 and OpenBSD su messages.Improved Windows installer to use NSIS Modern UI.Added overwrite attribute to the rules. It allows an entire rule to be overwritten. Example to overwrite rule 1002:
Partial changelog:
- Added support for hostnames in the server-ip configuration.
- Use “server-hostname” to specify it.Added granular e-mail configuration options.
- Extra email_alerts options can be added based on the severity or event location.
- Added support for Solaris 10 and OpenBSD su messages.
- Improved Windows installer to use NSIS Modern UI.Added overwrite attribute to the rules. It allows an entire rule to be overwritten. Example to overwrite rule 1002:
<rule id="1002" level="8" overwrite="yes">
<match>Segmentation|XYZ</match>
<description>Rule 1002 overwriten. </description>
</rule>You can download the Unix and Windows files from:
http://www.ossec.net/files/snapshots/
Let us know of any question (dcid @ ossec.net).