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[clamav-users] End of life (EOL) policy change, 0.103 one year extension, 0.105 past end of life
Read this online at https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.htm<https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.html>


End of life (EOL) policy change
ClamAV is making a minor change to our EOL policy<https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html>.

The original EOL policy stated that Long Term Support (LTS) versions will lose access to signature updates on the same date that we end support for additional patch versions.

We are changing the policy to allow signature updates for at least one year after we stop supporting the release with patch versions.

0.103 support extension
We are also announcing a one-year extension of support for ClamAV 0.103 LTS.

We decided to extend the life of the 0.103 LTS release because of the significant changes to the build system in 0.104 and the change in 0.105 requiring the Rust programming language toolchain to compile ClamAV.

The one-year support extension does not apply to future LTS releases.

ClamAV 0.103.0 was initially released on Sept. 14, 2020. With the additional year of support, and considering the change in the EOL Policy that allows one additional year of access for signature updates, this means that EOL dates for ClamAV 0.103 LTS are as follows:

* Expected End of Life (EOL): Sept. 14, 2024
* Patch versions continue until: Sept. 14, 2024
* Internal signature load testing until: Sept. 14, 2024
* Database downloads allowed until: Sept. 14, 2025

0.105 EOL
Finally, we would like to remind everyone that as per the EOL Policy, the release of ClamAV 1.1 heralds the end of patch versions supporting ClamAV 0.105. There will no more patch versions for ClamAV 0.105.

ClamAV 0.105 will continue to have access to signature updates for an additional four months after the 1.1 release, which was on May 1, 2023. This means that we may block 0.105 from further updates after Sept. 1, 2023.

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Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Re: [clamav-users] End of life (EOL) policy change, 0.103 one year extension, 0.105 past end of life [ In reply to ]
Micah,

Great decision!

I was worried about needing Rust on some of our systems. Not only for compiling, but doesn't Rust also need its own run time libraries?

I'm still trying to figure out how to move from iptables to nftables, so not having also to use Rust "immediately" is a relief.

(They claim nftables is better, but their automatic translator doesn't handle all of the options iptables supported. This is probably because it looks that they just arbitrarily dropped some matchers, like 'u32', from the underlying engine.)



On Mon, 8 May 2023 17:55:57 +0000
"Micah Snyder \(micasnyd\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Read this online at https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.htm<https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.html>
>
>
> End of life (EOL) policy change
> ClamAV is making a minor change to our EOL policy<https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html>.
>
> The original EOL policy stated that Long Term Support (LTS) versions will lose access to signature updates on the same date that we end support for additional patch versions.
>
> We are changing the policy to allow signature updates for at least one year after we stop supporting the release with patch versions.
>
> 0.103 support extension
> We are also announcing a one-year extension of support for ClamAV 0.103 LTS.
>
> We decided to extend the life of the 0.103 LTS release because of the significant changes to the build system in 0.104 and the change in 0.105 requiring the Rust programming language toolchain to compile ClamAV.
>
> The one-year support extension does not apply to future LTS releases.
>
> ClamAV 0.103.0 was initially released on Sept. 14, 2020. With the additional year of support, and considering the change in the EOL Policy that allows one additional year of access for signature updates, this means that EOL dates for ClamAV 0.103 LTS are as follows:
>
> * Expected End of Life (EOL): Sept. 14, 2024
> * Patch versions continue until: Sept. 14, 2024
> * Internal signature load testing until: Sept. 14, 2024
> * Database downloads allowed until: Sept. 14, 2025
>
> 0.105 EOL
> Finally, we would like to remind everyone that as per the EOL Policy, the release of ClamAV 1.1 heralds the end of patch versions supporting ClamAV 0.105. There will no more patch versions for ClamAV 0.105.
>
> ClamAV 0.105 will continue to have access to signature updates for an additional four months after the 1.1 release, which was on May 1, 2023. This means that we may block 0.105 from further updates after Sept. 1, 2023.
>
> Posted by
> Micah Snyder <https://www.blogger.com/profile/07798916006145826441> at 1:24?PM<https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.html> [https://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif] <https://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=2366689974368239573&postID=5032648864086091259>
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>
>
>
> Micah Snyder
> ClamAV Development
> Talos
> Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Re: [clamav-users] End of life (EOL) policy change, 0.103 one year extension, 0.105 past end of life [ In reply to ]
Hi Paul,

Unlike Java or C#, Rust does not have any additional runtime library requirement.

Regards,
Micah


Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 5:01 PM
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Cc: Paul Kosinski <clamav-users@iment.com>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] End of life (EOL) policy change, 0.103 one year extension, 0.105 past end of life

Micah,

Great decision!

I was worried about needing Rust on some of our systems. Not only for compiling, but doesn't Rust also need its own run time libraries?

I'm still trying to figure out how to move from iptables to nftables, so not having also to use Rust "immediately" is a relief.

(They claim nftables is better, but their automatic translator doesn't handle all of the options iptables supported. This is probably because it looks that they just arbitrarily dropped some matchers, like 'u32', from the underlying engine.)



On Mon, 8 May 2023 17:55:57 +0000
"Micah Snyder \(micasnyd\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Read this online at https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.htm<https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.html>
>
>
> End of life (EOL) policy change
> ClamAV is making a minor change to our EOL policy<https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html>.
>
> The original EOL policy stated that Long Term Support (LTS) versions will lose access to signature updates on the same date that we end support for additional patch versions.
>
> We are changing the policy to allow signature updates for at least one year after we stop supporting the release with patch versions.
>
> 0.103 support extension
> We are also announcing a one-year extension of support for ClamAV 0.103 LTS.
>
> We decided to extend the life of the 0.103 LTS release because of the significant changes to the build system in 0.104 and the change in 0.105 requiring the Rust programming language toolchain to compile ClamAV.
>
> The one-year support extension does not apply to future LTS releases.
>
> ClamAV 0.103.0 was initially released on Sept. 14, 2020. With the additional year of support, and considering the change in the EOL Policy that allows one additional year of access for signature updates, this means that EOL dates for ClamAV 0.103 LTS are as follows:
>
> * Expected End of Life (EOL): Sept. 14, 2024
> * Patch versions continue until: Sept. 14, 2024
> * Internal signature load testing until: Sept. 14, 2024
> * Database downloads allowed until: Sept. 14, 2025
>
> 0.105 EOL
> Finally, we would like to remind everyone that as per the EOL Policy, the release of ClamAV 1.1 heralds the end of patch versions supporting ClamAV 0.105. There will no more patch versions for ClamAV 0.105.
>
> ClamAV 0.105 will continue to have access to signature updates for an additional four months after the 1.1 release, which was on May 1, 2023. This means that we may block 0.105 from further updates after Sept. 1, 2023.
>
> Posted by
> Micah Snyder <https://www.blogger.com/profile/07798916006145826441> at 1:24?PM<https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/end-of-life-eol-policy-change-0103-one.html> [https://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif] <https://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=2366689974368239573&postID=5032648864086091259>
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>
>
>
> Micah Snyder
> ClamAV Development
> Talos
> Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Re: [clamav-users] End of life (EOL) policy change, 0.103 one year extension, 0.105 past end of life [ In reply to ]
On Tue, 16 May 2023 20:32:56 +0000
"Micah Snyder (micasnyd)" <micasnyd@cisco.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Unlike Java or C#, Rust does not have any additional runtime library requirement.
>
> Regards,
> Micah
>
>
> Micah Snyder
> ClamAV Development
> Talos
> Cisco Systems, Inc.



I'm somewhat surprised Rust doesn't need an extra library. Since one of its goals is safety, esp. avoiding the all-too-common memory misuse problems (use after free, double free, bad pointers, etc.), I would have guessed that they would have created some library functions to encapsulate some of their safety paradigms.
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