This is super critical to the future of where ClamAV is headed. So, while I 
understand it’s a pain in the butt, we need to work out, as a community, maybe 
with an faq page contributed by all of us, how to get past this hurdle.  

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> On Oct 5, 2019, at 09:41, Dennis Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This particular hard requirement (libcurl) affects the communication channel 
> which is different than causing the code to fail to run at all. So the 
> question is do the new libcurl requirements immediately break existing 
> systems that are not yet updated with new libcurl functionality. It is kind 
> of a big deal to update a widely used library and creates knock-on problems 
> from ripple effect for production systems subject to strong configuration 
> management policies.
> 
> dp
> 
>> On 10/4/19 7:22 AM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 03.10.19 11:05, Dennis Peterson wrote:
>>>> Does this obsolete earlier versions of ClamAV?
>>> 
>>> depending on what you exactly mean by obsoleting.
>>> older versions will work and will be supported for some time.
>>> but freshclam will warn about newer version available.
>>> 
>>> if you have installed clamav via any OS/distribution, you usually can trust
>>> them to provide newer version soon.
>> 
>> In case it's of any interest:
>> 
>> For several weeks I ran a mix of three versions of clamd, from both
>> 0.101.4, and 0.102rc side-by-side, all on the same machine, with no
>> problems (other than that obviously they're a little picky about
>> library versions).  They all used the same set of databases, updated
>> by a single freshclam instance.  A milter piped the mail to all three
>> clamd instances concurrently, and in this usage I saw no evidence of
>> any differences in their performance.
>> 
> 
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