Snort 2.9.16.0 has been released

We just released Snort major release, 2.9.16.0  Take a look at the release notes below for more information:

Snort version 2.9.16.0

New Additions

• Added support for early inspection of HTTP payload before flushing in pre-ack mode. This feature can be enabled using fast_blocking in http inspect configuration.
• Added 64-bit support for Windows 10 operating system.
• Added support for glibc version 2.30.

Improvements and fixes

• Fixed file policy not working with character prefix in chunk size.
• Updated the file magic to detect ALZ file types.
• Addressed an issue when out-of-order FIN is received by dropping it.
• Normalize randomly encoded nulls interspersed in the HTTP server response to UTF-8.

As always, feedback on this release and any other release may be sent to the Snort mailing lists.

You may download this latest version of Snort from our downloads site.