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Announcing Release of ModSecurity v2.6.1

Written by Ryan Barnett | Jul 18, 2011 12:42:00 PM

Availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1-RC1 Release

(July 18, 2011)

The ModSecurity Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1 Release. This release includes some new features and bug fixes, please see the release notes included into CHANGES file.

18 Jun 2011 - 2.6.1------------------- * Updated the reference manual into doc/ directory.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.