On Mon, 23 May 2005, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
there is talk of "functionality levels" instead of "versions"?
I guess I could have been a little more direct - what is the
difference between clamav versions and functionality levels? If any ?
Versions refer to the software side of things -- whenever there's a
change in the software, the version gets incremented. The change may be
to introduce new functionality (in which case the functionality level is
also incremented) or it might just be a bugfix release (in which case
the functionality level would stay the same).
Right now, the latest version is 0.85.1, while the latest functionality
level is 5. If you're running an older version you won't be able to
detect viruses that require functionality 5. For example, clamav-0.83
only supports up to functionality level 4 -- it will detect anything in
the database up to that level, but won't be able to use the signatures
that require functionality level 5.
Sorry that was kinda verbose, but hopefully it got the point across.
Damian Menscher
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