Availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1-RC1 Release
(June 30, 2011)
The ModSecurity Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1-rc1 Release. This release includes some new features and bug fixes, please see the release notes included into CHANGES file.
30 Jun 2011 - 2.6.1-rc1------------------- * Fixed SecUploadFileMode doesn't work with the new build system. * Fixed building with Lua library (Thanks Diego Elio). * Fixed some ./configure --enable* features not being enabled in compilation time. * Improvements on GSB database add/search operations. * Log part K was removed from modsecurity.conf-recommended. * Added SecUnicodeMapFile directive. Must be use to load the unicode.mapping file. * Added SecUnicodeCodePage directive. Used to define the unicode code page. There are a few already available: 1250 (ANSI - Central Europe) 1251 (ANSI - Cyrillic) 1252 (ANSI - Latin I) 1253 (ANSI - Greek) 1254 (ANSI - Turkish) 1255 (ANSI - Hebrew) 1256 (ANSI - Arabic) 1257 (ANSI - Baltic) 1258 (ANSI/OEM - Viet Nam) 20127 (US-ASCII) 20261 (T.61) 20866 (Russian - KOI8) 28591 (ISO 8859-1 Latin I) 28592 (ISO 8859-2 Central Europe) 28605 (ISO 8859-15 Latin 9) 37 (IBM EBCDIC - U.S./Canada) 437 (OEM - United States) 500 (IBM EBCDIC - International) 850 (OEM - Multilingual Latin I) 860 (OEM - Portuguese) 861 (OEM - Icelandic) 863 (OEM - Canadian French) 865 (OEM - Nordic) 874 (ANSI/OEM - Thai) 932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese Shift-JIS) 936 (ANSI/OEM - Simplified Chinese GBK) 949 (ANSI/OEM - Korean) 950 (ANSI/OEM - Traditional Chinese Big5) Also mapping some extra unicode chars defined at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490#section-3.1 * Fixed SecRequestBodyLimit was truncating the real request body.
The new release has improvements on unicode mapping, trying to solve problems like the one described inhttp://www.lookout.net/2011/06/28/many-stops-equal-a-u002e-full-stop/
For known problems and more information about bug fixes, please see the online ModSecurity Jira. Please report any bug to mod-security-developers@lists.sourceforge.net.