CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

1.3.3 - 2024-04-16

• Add missing engine provided rules: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6932

1.3.2 - 2024-03-14

• Fix copying of file hash lists which was broken in the dataset fix as part of ticket #6833: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6854

1.3.1 - 2024-03-11

• Fix detecting dataset "load" when preceded by a space: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6777
• If no Suricata is found, Suricata-Update will assume version 6.0.0 instead of 4.0.0.
• Handle URLs of bare files that don't end in .rules: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3664
• Don't base dataset filenames on the contents of the file, but instead the filename path: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6763
• Give each file in a source a unique filename by prefixing the files with a hash of the URL to prevent duplicate filenames from cloberring each other, in particular dataset files: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6833

1.3.0 - 2023-07-07

• Fix loading of configuration files specified in update.yaml: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6172

1.3.0-rc1 - 2022-01-30

• Be consistent about warning about old index. The index won't be automatically updated now in some cases and not in others. Instead opt to never auto-update: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3249
• Better flowbit resolution logging in verbose mode https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3205
• Hide advanced command line options from help output: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3974
• Allow spaces in custom HTTP headers. Redmine issue https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4362
• Better error message on invalid source specification: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5141

1.2.7 - 2022-01-30

• Embed an index that has been formatted so diffs are more readable.
• Documentation update with respect to how Suricata-Update is bundled with all versions of Suricata now.

1.2.6 - 2022-11-25

• Allow checksum URL to be specified by the index: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5684
• Metadata rule matching for disable, enable and drop: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5561

1.2.5 - 2022-09-22

• Update entrypoint search path when not installed with distutils. This is required for installation when bundled with Suricata 6.0.7 or newer: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5313

1.2.4 - 2022-04-19

• Fix multiple modifications to a rule: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4259
• Fix "check-versions" where the running Suricata is newer than what the index knows about: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4373
• Fix issue with dataset handling. Also adds file renaming to avoid conflicts: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5010.
• New modify option to add metadata: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5221.
• Respect Suricata's sysconfdir when loading configuration files: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4374.
• Modify rule to add metadata: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5221
• Don't fail when source removed from index: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/5269
• Option fail on download error: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4579

1.2.3 - 2021-11-05

• Allow more custom characters in custom http header to allow for more of the base64 character set: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4701
• Send custom HTTP headers with check for remote checksum file: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4001

1.2.2 - 2021-05-18

• Fix "no-test" when set in configuration file: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4493

1.2.1 - 2021-02-23

• Fix --no-merge. Redmine issue https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/4324.

1.2.0 - 2020-10-05

• Documentation updates.

1.2.0rc2 - 2020-09-09

Features

• Obsolete and deprecated source handling from the index: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3918, https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3919.

Fixes

• Fix re-enabling a disabled source that was initially added with "add-source": https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3843
• Handle duplicate filenames across multiple sources: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3174

1.2.0rc1 - 2020-08-05

Added

• Add summary for update-sources command: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2472
• Disable SMB rules if installed Suricata does not support them: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3280
• Better error on bad modify filter: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3536
• Missing documentation for list-sources, list-enabled-sources and check-versions: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3228
• Optimization for modify filters: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3620
• Fix --http-header option. Header was not being sent: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3696
• Add classification.config management. Suricata-Update will now load the Suricata installed classification.config and merge it with classification.config's found in rule files. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3203
• Copy md5/sha1/sha256 file lists from rulesets into the rule output directory: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2688
• Copy dataset files from ruleset into the rule output directory: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3528

1.1.0 - 2019-10-11

• Disable ja3 rules if the Suricata build or runtime configuration does not support ja3. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3215
• New command, check-versions to compare the version of Suricata on the system to Suricata version information in the index. Can let you know if Suricata is outdated. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2341

1.1.0rc1 - 2019-09-09

• Enable integration tests on Travis-CI. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2760
• Fix error on missing sid, or missing ';' in rule parsing. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2867
• Improve permission errors from tracebacks to more user friendly error messages. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2875
• Log warnings and errors to stderr, info and debug to stdout. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2565
• Cleaner exit on CTRL-C. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2878
• Run offline. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2864
• Log warning on duplicate SID. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2879
• Parse rule files alphabetically. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2892
• Set the noalert option on rules enabled for flowbit dependencies. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2906
• Allow sources to be specified without a checksum URL to prevent the warning log message when this URL does not exist. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3100

1.0.5 - 2019-04-26

• Fix NULL pointer dereference (FORWARD_NULL) found by Coverity. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2834
• Add a download connection timeout of 30 seconds. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2703
• Fix issue with --no-merge command line option. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2869
• Fix handling of default ignore files. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2851
• Allow repeated calls to enable the same rule source without exiting with an error. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2728

1.0.4 - 2019-03-07

• Enable integration tests on Travis-CI. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2760
• Reduce memory usage. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2791

1.0.3 - 2018-12-21

• Fix enable-source command. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2753

1.0.2 - 2018-12-18

• Fix installs on older versions of Python 2.7. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2747

1.0.1 - 2018-12-16

• Add --free argument to list-sources command to show only those that are freely available. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2641
• If user-agent is configured to be empty, don't send the header at all. This also fixes an issue where trying to set the user agent to an empty string reset it back to the default. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2665
• Fix --dump-sample-configs. The data files were being installed. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2683
• When installing with pip, make pyyaml and a required dependency so it will be installed automatically if needed. This does not apply when installed bundled with Suricata. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2667
• Fix missing check for None, from Coverity. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2676
• Suppress download progress meter when not on a tty. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2743
• Hide git revision if not available in --version.
• Update list of engine provided rules to include.
• Allow a custom HTTP header to be set on a source when added with add-source. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2577

1.0.0 - 2018-11-05

• Fix failure to run custom test command. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2652

1.0.0rc2 - 2018-10-12

• Python 3 fix for enable-source. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2549
• Fix interactive input for add-source command. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2550
• Python fix for loading disable.conf (and other files). https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2551

1.0.0rc1 - 2018-07-17

• Python 3 fixes.
• Bundle a copy of the index which can be used if download source for the index is not available, and no index was previously downloaded. Warnings will be issued.
• Fix for Python versions prior to 2.7.9 that don't have ssl.create_default_context. For example, Ubuntu Trusty.
• Fix exception while referencing configuration filename. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2526

1.0.0b1 - 2018-01-19

• Various fixes for Python 3.
• Allow the default state directory of /var/lib/suricata to be changed with the command line parameter -D (--data-dir). Fixes issue https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2334.
• Cache directory is now /var/lib/suricata/update/cache (or update/cache under configured data directory).
• list-sources: If no index is found, automatically run update-sources. Fixes issue https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2336.
• New testing framework, integration tests and a docker test with the focus of testing on more versions of Python.
• Allow a custom HTTP User-Agent to be set (https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2344).
• Command line option and configuration parameter to set the suricata.yaml configuration file used (https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2350).
• Allow the Suricata application to be set in the configuration file.
• Allow disabling of TLS certificate validation (--no-check-certificate).
• Safe loading of YAML files (https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2359)

1.0.0a1 - 2017-12-05

• Initial alpha release of Suricata-Update. A Suricata rule update tool based on idstools-rulecat, relicensed under the GPLv2 with copyright assigned to the OISF.
• Features are derived from idstools-rulecat, but with more opinionated defaults.
• Supports an index of rule sources to aid in discovery of rulesets.