All: If this is in fact only occurring on Windows releases, I'm pretty sure this is my fault.
The way that the Windows ClamAV client receives the version string is slightly different than the POSIX versions. In preparation for the 0.99.3 release, I discovered that our previous releases had broken version strings. The TL;DR is that to fix the version string for windows, I hardcoded the version string on the Windows client for the first time and appear to have botched it slightly. I apologize. There isn't much to be done about it other than to ignore the warning. The long story is: For development builds, when compiling from a clone of the git repository, the Windows and POSIX builds pull a description of where the code came from using "git describe", which effectively is the most recent tag + the # of commits since that tag + a small hash. This is done as a part of the ./configure (or ./win32/configure.bat) scripts. For release builds, the version strings is supposed to get hardcoded. This was being done correctly for non-Windows builds, but for Windows I found that the version string previous releases had not been correctly set. As you demonstrated: on the 0.99.3 Windows release, if you run --version, you will get: ClamAV devel-clamav-0.99.2-30-g224f73461. Freshclam identifies that it contains "devel" and thus does not warn you about the older version. When I went to hardcode the version string for the 0.99.4 release I made an assumption about how the macro was used based on what the git tag would've provided and this resulted in the screwed up version string. Again, sorry to cause this trouble. I will see to it that the 0.100.0 release doesn't have the same issue. Regards, Micah Micah Snyder ClamAV Development Talos Cisco Systems, Inc. On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Brian Fluet <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 9 Mar 2018 at 15:44, Kees Theunissen wrote, at least in part: Clearly there is some imperfect comparison being performed prior to issuing this message, when even identical "local" vs. "recommended" versions are evaluated as "not equal". The version strings "clamav-0.99.4" and "0.99.4" are not identical. The package that you installed seems to have been built with a wrong version string (including the phrase "clamav-"). How is your version shown by commands like "freshclam --version" or "clamscan --version"? ~$ freshclam --version ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 ~$ clamscan --version ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 In your case I would expect somthing like: ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 Running windows here with ClamD. I retrieved the version info for clamscan, both 0.99.4 and 0.99.3. You are correct in what 0.99.4 reports but notice what v0.99.3 reports. There weren't any version discrepancies warnings while running it though. Hmmm. Keep in mind that this is based on the following downloaded files: clamav-0.99.4-win-x86.zip clamav-0.99.3-windows-x86.zip files Clamscan v0.99.4: c:\clamav\clamscan --version ClamAV clamav-0.99.4 Clamscan v0.99.3 c:\clamav_0_99_3\clamscan --version ClamAV devel-clamav-0.99.2-20-g224f73461 Out of curiosity I retrieved the version info for clamd... Clamd v0.99.4: c:\clamav\clamd --version ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 09 04:13:20 2018 Clamd v0.99.3: c:\clamav_0_99_3\clamd --version ClamAV devel-clamav-0.99.2-20-g224f73461/24377/Fri Mar 09 04:13:20 2018 -- Brian Fluet _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
