version 2.9.alpha1

Author: Risto Vaarandi

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+--- version 2.9.alpha1
+
+* added support for 'cmdexec', 'spawnexec', 'cspawnexec', 'pipeexec'
+  and 'reportexec' actions.
+
+* added support for 'shell' field in SingleWithScript rules.
+
+* added support for 'egptype' and 'egpattern' fields in EventGroup rules.
+
+* added support for %.sp built-in action list variable.
+
+* added ipv6 support for 'tcpsock' and 'udpsock' actions.
+
+* bugfixes for 'write', 'writen', 'owritecl', 'udgram', 'ustream',
+  'udpsock' and 'tcpsock' actions.
+
+* starting from this version, a program provided with --timeout-script
+  command line option is executed without shell interpretation.
+
+* starting from this version, SEC uses Perl JSON::PP module instead of 
+  JSON module (JSON::PP is included in the standard Perl installation).
+
+
 --- version 2.8.3
 
 * added support for collecting rule performance data, and

README

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-SEC (Simple Event Correlator) 2.8.3
+SEC (Simple Event Correlator) 2.9.alpha1
 
 Introduction:
 -------------
@@ -27,11 +27,9 @@ work on other OS platforms.
 Because SEC is not tested against ancient Perl releases, it is recommended 
 to run SEC with at least Perl 5.8 (see https://www.perl.org for the latest 
 stable release). 
-SEC uses Perl Getopt, POSIX, Fcntl, Socket, IO::Handle, and Sys::Syslog 
-modules which are included in the standard Perl installation (the presence
-of Sys::Syslog is optional). Since the 2.8 version, SEC also employs Perl
-JSON module for producing dumpfiles in JSON format, but the presence of this 
-module is optional.
+SEC uses Perl Getopt, POSIX, Fcntl, Socket, IO::Handle, Sys::Syslog, and 
+JSON::PP modules which are included in the standard Perl installation 
+(the presence of Sys::Syslog and JSON::PP is optional). 
 
 Files in this package:
 ----------------------
@@ -59,6 +57,6 @@ The author also thanks the following people for supplying software patches,
 documentation fixes, and suggesting new features:
 Al Sorrell, Brian Mielke, David Lang, James Brown, Jon Frazier, Mark D. Nagel, 
 Peter Eckel, Rick Casey, and William Gertz.
-Last but not least, the author expresses his profound gratitute to
+Last but not least, the author expresses his profound gratitude to
 John P. Rouillard for many great ideas and creative discussions that have
 helped to develop SEC.