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

