On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 21:59, John Madden wrote:
> > Could we perhaps stop adding features for a few days and get a stable
> > release out?  It would really help.
> 
> I'd like to second that.  Those of us depending on clamav to catch stuff
> can't afford to upgrade in the middle of the day for new signatures to
> work.

Why not? If you say "because it's a production system and it needs to be
tested", then that is a business decision to accept the risk of letting
in known viruses.

Most people would prefer that updates to the code to catch more viruses
are released.

>   And why don't these new signatures work?  Has that interface not
> yet stabilized?

No. Adding more powerful features to the scanning engine requires
changes to the signature format.

-trog

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