We are pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 2.0.
This new version is the first one with support for agentless monitoring and include many others new features and bug fixes:

• Centralized configuration - The agent.conf file was introduced to allow granular configuration of the agents directly on the manager side.
• Remote agent restart - Functionality was added to restart the agents remotely using the agent_control tool.
• Real time integrity checking - Real time integrity checking was added to Linux systems
• New Log Rules Support - We added support for Windows DHCP logs and fixed/improved many of the other rules for different messages.

And much more… Check the changelog to see all changes and contributors.

Download it from: http://www.ossec.net/main/downloads .

Special thanks to Chris Bailes, Matt Goldsberry, phishphreek, Michael Starks, Danny Fullerton, Slava Semushin and Peter Wolanin for helping with this release.