Thank you all for understanding, and yes, I could have been more clear in the blog post. But the intention is that when EOL happens, those versions are now disabled.
— Sent from my iPad > On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:18, Paul Smith via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > > On 07/03/2021 15:55, Arjen de Korte via clamav-users wrote: >> >> This was announced almost a month ago on on both the clamav-announce and >> clamav-users mailinglists. This has not been caused by the changes to >> prevent excessive downloads. >> >> See https://blog.clamav.net/2021/02/clamav-eol-versions-prior-to-0100.html > I'm sorry, but that does not say "it will not work", just "we won't test > signatures". As it happens the current CVDs work perfectly well with ClamAV > 0.99, it's just that FreshClam 0.99 can't download them (because of the way > the rate limiting has been implemented) > > "End of life (EOL) for ClamAV essentially means that we will no longer be > testing against that version when we write signatures, and we may break > something with a future release. So, while signatures may work past March 1, > we are no longer testing that configuration." > > That announcement is saying that things may break with a future release. > There hasn't been a future release of ClamAV since that announcement. It's > also not saying that the old FreshClam won't be able to download the updates, > just that they may not work in ClamAV. > > The changes to prevent excessive downloads are what triggered old FreshClam > failing. > > It's the same reason that wget won't work (for implementing private mirrors). > It all happened at exactly the same time. > > See: https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2021-March/010559.html > > Note that I'm not complaining that the rate limiting has been implemented, > but a warning that private mirrors and old Freshclam would definitely stop > working would have been nice, but, as I understand it, the rate limiting was > forced upon them by external factors, so prior warning wasn't possible. > > > > -- > Paul > Paul Smith Computer Services > supp...@pscs.co.uk - 01484 855800 > > -- > > Paul Smith Computer Services > Tel: 01484 855800 > Vat No: GB 685 6987 53 > > Sign up for news & updates > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
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