ModSecurity 2.6.0-rc1 is now available

The ModSecurity Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of ModSecurity 2.6.0-rc1 Release (www.modsecurity.org).

This is the first release from the 2.6 branch which improves on the functionality of ModSecurity and introduces some new features. Some highlights:

• Google Safe-Browsing API Integration: Protection for users and content providers from malicious links
• Sensitive Data Tracking: Ability to identify and track US Social Security numbers
• Data Modification: Ability to change data on-the-fly, before delivery, in order to better control outgoing content according to security policies

For a complete list of new features and improvements please see the release notes included into CHANGES file.

For known problems and more information about bug fixes, please see the online ModSecurity Jira.

This is a release candidate version so the stability should be good. Please report any bug to mod-security-developers@lists.sourceforge.net.

Thanks to the modsecurity community for helping us create this new release!