We are very happy to announce the availability of OSSEC version 2.6.

This has been a long release cycle, but it is here now with some good new features and very stable (thanks to our beta users). Our manual for the new version is also live at http://www.ossec.net/doc/.

What is new?

1. Added IPv6 support
2. Lots of new rules (OpenBSD, Clamav, BRO-ids, active response logs, etc, etc)
3. Added os-authd – For automatically creating and setting up the agent keys
4. Added CEF support to client syslog
5. Improved reporting for file changes
6. Added option to Block repeated offenders with OSSEC
7. Many bug fixes

And a lot more. You can download the new version from: http://www.ossec.net/main/downloads.

This was also the release with the biggest number of contributors and we have to thank them all for the help.

Specially to Dan Parriott for all the work on the rules and documentation, Michael Starks for lots of new rules, Jeremy Rossi, the guys over at Atomicorp, Christopher Moraes, Xavier Mertens, Scott R. Shinn, Dean Proctor, Jason Frisvold, Paul Southerington, Anh Ky Huynh, Trey Dockendorf and many others. If I missed anyone, let me know and I will fix it.

Thanks!
Daniel B. Cid (in name of the OSSEC + Trend team)