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Notable Changes

Note: Changes should be grouped by release and use these icons:

  • Added: ➕
  • Changed: 🌌
  • Deprecated: 👇
  • Removed: ❌
  • Fixed: 🐛
  • Security: 🛡

Version 1.1.1

🐛 Fixed an issue where the .cdiff files were only downloaded when updating a .cvd and not when downloading the .cvd for the first time.

🐛 Fixed an issue where cvd update crashes if the DNS query fails, rather than printing a helpful error message and exiting.

🐛 Fixed support for CVD Update on Windows 🪟. In prior versions, the DNS query was failing if a DNS server was not specified manually. Now it will try to use OpenDNS servers if no DNS server is specified.

➕ Added Python dependencies to the Readme to help users that are unable to install using pip.

Version 1.1.0

➕ CVD-Update can now get the DNS nameserver IP from an environment variable.

Specify the IP address of the nameserver in the environment variable CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER to ensure said nameserver is used when querying the TXT record containing the current database definition version available.

Using this environment variable will take precedence over any option specified in the config file.

Feature courtesy of Philippe Ballandras.

➕ CVD-Update can now accept multiple DNS nameservers from the nameserver config option, or from the CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER environment variable.

To set multiple DNS nameservers, specify the nameserver config option or the CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER environment variable as a comma separated list.

E.g.:

CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER=1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8 cvd update

Feature courtesy of Michael Callahan.

🐛 In prior versions, CVD-Update would assume that a CVD file exists because it is listed in the config.json "dbs" record. So if you delete that file by accident and try to update, it would not notice and would instead claim that it is up-to-date. In this release, CVD-Update will detect that a deleted file is missing from the database directory and will re-download it.

Fix courtesy of Brent Clark.

🌌 CVD-Update will no longer remove extra files from the database directory when you run cvd clean dbs. It will only remove those file managed by the CVD-Update tool.

This means that you can now store third-party extra signature databases in the CVD-Update database directory and CVD-Update will not delete them if you run the clean command.

Improvement courtesy of Brent Clark.

🌌 CVD-Update now stores the database state information separately from the configuration information. If you're upgrading from CVD-Update version 1.0.2, your config.json file will be migrated automatatically when you run cvd update to split it into config.json + state.json.

This change allows you to administrate the CVD-Update config files with a config management tool.

Improvement courtesy of Bill Sanders.

Special thanks to:

  • Bill Sanders
  • Brent Clark
  • Michael Callahan
  • Philippe Ballandras

Version 1.0.2

🐛 Fixed a Python 3.6 compatibility issue in the package version check.

Version 1.0.1

🐛 Fixed a bug where the CVD-Update PyPI package version check prints an error message on some systems where pip doesn't return the available package versions.

Version 1.0.0

➕ Added a check to make sure that version check for the daily, main, and bytecode databases are done using DNS when downloading from database.clamav.net.

CVD-Update, like FreshClam, is capable of checking with an HTTP Range request which only downloads the CVD header to check the version. This doesn't use much data, but the CDN does not appear to differentiate between whole and partial downloads for tracking download activity.

The requirement to use DNS for the version check is to reduce CDN costs and should reduce the chance that the user is rate-limited or blocked by the CDN for downloading these files too frequently.

➕ Added a PyPI package version check when running cvd update to encourage users to update when there is a new version.

🐛 CVD-Update now requires dnspython version 2.1.0 or newer. This fixes compatibility issues with older dnspython versions. Special thanks to Byron Collins for this fix.

🐛 Added explicit timeout for the DNS resolver. This fixes a DNS query issue on some systems. Special thanks to Colin Tilley for this fix.

🐛 Fixed a bug when pruning older CDIFFs where the CDIFF files were already removed by the user.

Version 0.3.0

➕ cvd update will now retry up to 3x if the downloaded content length is less than the content-length in the response header. This is to resolve issues with flakey connections.

➕ cvd update now has a --debug-mode (-D) option to print out the HTTP headers to debug issues with the update process.

➕ The update process will now save the DNS TXT record containing version metadata as dns.txt in the database directory so it may be served by the private mirror.

Some common check scripts (on clients) use dns.txt to check if ClamAV is up to date instead of using DNS or the HTTP CVD-header check.

🌌 CVDUpdate will now have a unique User-Agent: CVDUPDATE/<version> (<UUID>)

The UUID is randomly generated, and will help with anonymous usage metrics.

🐛 Fixed a couple issues with the cvd update <specific database> option.

Version 0.2.0

Added

➕ Two ways to set a custom DNS nameserver. DNS queries are required to check the latest available database versions.

  1. Set the nameserver in the config. Eg:

    cvd config set --nameserver 208.67.222.222
cvd update

  2. Set the environment variable CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER. Eg:

    CVDUPDATE_NAMESERVER="208.67.222.222" cvd update

🐛 Error handling so dns update fails if a DNS query fails.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Michael Callahan for adding the custom nameserver feature.

Version 0.1.0

First release!