--- version 2.8.3

* added support for collecting rule performance data, and
  the --ruleperf and --noruleperf command line options.

* improved dump file generation in JSON format (some numeric fields
  that were reported as JSON strings are now reported as JSON numbers).


--- version 2.8.2

* added support for 'varset' action.

* fixed a bug where reference to $:{cacheentry:varname} match variable
  for non-existing pattern match cache entry would create an empty entry.


--- version 2.8.1

* fixed a bug in dump file creation routine (a perl warning message was
  written to standard error if --dumpfjson command line option was used
  without Perl JSON module being present).


--- version 2.8.0

* added support for dynamic input files, and 'addinput' and 'dropinput'
  actions for managing dynamic inputs.

* added support for signal emulation and 'sigemul' action.

* added support for 'setltime' action.

* starting from this version, the 'lcall' action supports the :> operator.

* added support for $+{_intcontext} match variable.

* improved input file rotation handling.

* improved action list parsing.

* bugfixes for 'setwpos' action.

* added support for creating dump files in JSON format, and
  the --dumpfjson and --nodumpfjson command line options.


--- version 2.7.12

* fixed a bug in context expression parsing routine and improved 
  the logging of parsing errors.


--- version 2.7.11

* added support for the --user, --group and --umask command line options.

* starting from this version, SIGPIPE signal is ignored globally
  in all parts of the code.

* improved the handling of SIGTERM signal.

* optimized IO routines, signal handling and exit status collection 
  for child processes.

* improved command line parsing and error reporting.

* changes in rule parsing routines (only ASCII digits are allowed in
  numeric rule fields).

* starting from this version, the default value for the --blocksize
  command line option is 8192.

* fixed a bug in the code which checks the status of TCP sockets.


--- version 2.7.10

* added support for built-in action list variables %.chr0, ..., %.chr31
  that are set to ASCII 0..31 control characters.


--- version 2.7.9

* added support for built-in action list variables %.nl, %.cr and %.tab
  that are set to special characters, and time-related built-in action
  list variables %.sec, %.min, %.hour, %.hmsstr, %.mday, %.mdaystr, %.mon, 
  %.monstr, %.year, %.wday, %.wdaystr, %.tzname, %.tzoff and %.tzoff2.


--- version 2.7.8

* added support for the --dumpfts and --nodumpfts command line options.

* added support for the 'assignsq' action.

* starting from this version, SEC_PRE_RESTART, SEC_PRE_SOFTRESTART, and
  SEC_PRE_LOGROTATE internal events are generated before processing
  SIGHUP, SIGABRT, and SIGUSR2 signals.

* starting from this version, the default value for  
  --keepopen/--nokeepopen command line options is --keepopen.


--- version 2.7.7

* added support for the 'writen', 'closef', 'closeudgr', 'closeustr',
  'closeudp' and 'closetcp' actions.

* starting from this version, the default value for the --bufsize 
  command line option is 0 (detect appropriate input buffer size 
  automatically).

* starting from this version, the default value for  
  --jointbuf/--nojointbuf command line options is --nojointbuf.


--- version 2.7.6

* added support for the 'cspawn' and 'cevent' actions which allow
  for generating synthetic events with custom internal contexts.

* fixes for logging the execution of 'shift' and 'pop' actions.

* starting from this version, warnings are produced for duplicate
  keywords in rule definitions.


--- version 2.7.5

* starting from this version, continue* rule parameters accept 'EndMatch'
  as a value.


--- version 2.7.4

* added support for the 'owritecl' action.

* added support for the --childterm, --nochildterm, --rwfifo and --norwfifo
  command line options.

* starting from this version, SEC_LOGROTATE internal event is generated 
  on the reception of SIGUSR2.

* starting from this version, the --notail option implies reading from
  input pipe until all writers have closed the pipe (in previous versions,
  --notail closed the pipe when no data were available for reading)


--- version 2.7.3

* improvements to 'spawn', 'write', 'udgram', 'ustream', 'udpsock' and 
  'tcpsock' actions.

* starting from this version, process interactivity check is accomplished
  with  POSIX getpgrp() and tcgetpgrp() functions.

* fixed a bug in substituting ${number} match variables.


--- version 2.7.2

* fixed a bug in the parsing of the 'rewrite' action.


--- version 2.7.1

* added support for the 'udgram', 'ustream', 'udpsock' and 'tcpsock' actions.

* changed the behavior of the 'write' action -- instead of opening and closing
  the file on each access, 'write' now keeps the file open across writes.

* added support for the --socket-timeout command line option.


--- version 2.7.0

* added support for the 'if', 'while', 'break', 'continue', 'prepend', 
  'pop', 'shift', 'exists', 'getsize', 'getaliases', 'getltime', 'getctime',
  'setctime' and 'free' actions.

* added support for varset and :> operators in context expressions.

* added support for $:{cacheentry:varname} match variables which refer
  to variables from previously cached matches.

* starting from this version, PerlFunc pattern can set named match variables.

* starting from this version, the 'set' action does not change the context
  lifetime if '-' is specified for lifetime.

* changed the dumpfile format to highlight frequently matching rules.


--- version 2.6.2

* added support for the --jointbuf and --nojointbuf command line options.

* added support for the 'rewrite' action.

* starting from this version, 'eval', 'call' and 'lcall' actions set
  the output variable to 'undef' if no value is returned from Perl code.


--- version 2.6.1

* added support for the $+{_inputsrc} match variable.

* added support for the --keepopen and --nokeepopen command line options;
  also, dashes can be used instead of underscores in all option names.

* starting from this version, Calendar rules are processed immediately
  after SEC startup procedures.


--- version 2.6.0

* added support for the EventGroup rule.

* starting from this version, the Calendar rule accepts a year condition 
  in the time specification.

* added support for the 'lcall', 'getwpos' and 'setwpos' actions.

* added support for the named match variables and variable maps. 

* added Cached and NCached pattern types, and support for pattern match 
  caching. 

* starting from this version, all unset or undefined variables are
  substituted with empty strings.


--- version 2.5.3

* starting from this version, the 'set' action without the action list
  parameter does not clear the action-list-on-expiration for a context.

* starting from this version, a context can be referred by the context
  name _THIS in its action-list-on-expiration.

* implemented additional sanity check for context names in context 
  expressions (context names may not contain spaces).


--- version 2.5.2

* starting from this version, step values can be used in 'time' field
  of the Calendar rule.


--- version 2.5.1

* fixed a bug in the 'eval' action - code reference return values were
  not handled correctly.


--- version 2.5.0

* added support for the Jump and Options rule.

* starting from this version, the 'continue' parameter of rules accepts
  'GoTo <label>' for its value.

* added support for GoTo labels in configuration files 
  (set with the 'label' keyword).

* SIGINT can now be used for changing the logging level.


--- version 2.4.2

* starting from this version, 'create' and 'set' actions accept variable(s)
  for the context lifetime.

* added 'tevent' action.


--- version 2.4.1

* improved the daemonization code.

* changed Sys::Syslog::openlog() options from 'cons,pid' to 'pid'.

* starting from this version, 'logonly' action has an optional parameter.


--- version 2.4.0

* added support for the SEC resource file.

* added support for the 'rem' parameter for all rule types.

* added support for the 'action2' parameter for SingleWithThreshold rules.

* added support for -help and -version command line options.

* starting from this version, SIGABRT does not clear event correlation
  operations for rule files that have not been modified.

* starting from this version, the context expression &&- and ||-operator
  are short-circuiting.

* starting from this version, SEC does not overwrite its dumpfile.

* starting from this version, the dumpfile contains environment information.

* starting from this version, -reopen_timeout=N command line option forces
  SEC to reopen only those files that have been closed for N seconds. 

* starting from this version, undef values returned by 'eval' and 'call'
  actions will be replaced with empty strings before assigning them to 
  %-variables.


--- version 2.3.3

* fixed a bug in the open_input() function - when file pattern with wildcards 
  was specified for the -input option and the -intcontexts option was given, 
  single internal context was incorrectly set for input sources corresponding
  to the file pattern.


--- version 2.3.2

* calls to Sys::Syslog functions are now enclosed in eval { }, in order
  to trap die() calls from those functions.

* modified pattern matching functions.

* input source names are now also passed as parameters to PerlFunc and 
  NPerlFunc pattern functions.


--- version 2.3.1

* fixed a bug in the closelog() function call which caused SEC to terminate
  on the reception of SIGHUP, SIGABRT, and SIGUSR2 signals when SEC was started 
  with the -syslog option. 


--- version 2.3.0

* added PerlFunc and NPerlFunc pattern types.

* added 'call' action.

* added support for Perl function operands in context expressions.

* added support for user-defined variables of custom length.

* changed the apostrophe masking algorithm for the -quoting option.

* changed the context lifetime checking algorithm.

* more efficient runtime handling of action lists and context expressions.

* more efficient handling of Calendar rules (the context expression will
  be checked after the time pattern).

* the dump file now contains the time of the last configuration load.

* if the -syslog option has not been specified, SEC can now work without
  the Sys::Syslog module.


--- version 2.2.5

* added TValue pattern type.

* added 'obsolete' action.

* added -check_timeout flag.

* added performance improvements.

* %-signs in syslog messages are now converted to %% before calling
  syslog(), in order to avoid warnings printed from Sys::Syslog module.


--- version 2.2.4

* fixed a bug in calling syslog openlog() that caused SEC to terminate 
  with older versions of Perl.


--- version 2.2.3

* added support for the syslog-style logging and the -syslog option
  (with the help of the Sys::Syslog module).

* added support for the \0-construct in substring patterns.

* fixed a bug that caused SEC to skip empty lines (lines made up of 
  just the newline character).


--- version 2.2.2

* revised some regular expressions that are used for analyzing action 
  definitions in configuration file(s).

* SEC now generates SEC_SOFTRESTART internal event when it receives SIGABRT.


--- version 2.2.1

* fixed a bug that caused SEC to reset explicit internal context names
  to implicit default names, e.g., due to the bug the explicit name LOG
  that was given with -input=logfile=LOG became _FILE_EVENT_logfile after 
  SIGHUP or SIGABRT.


--- version 2.2.0

* added support for multiple input files

* added support for internal contexts (activated with -intcontexts or
  -input=<pattern>=<context> option)

* added support for context aliasing (with 'alias' and 'unalias' actions)

* added support for negative pattern matching (with NRegExp and NSubStr 
  pattern types)

* added support for the []-operator in context expressions

* included a workaround for the Perl regexp bug that prevented SEC for
  reading its configuration files (this bug appeared when the LANG environment 
  variable was set to utf8, causing SEC to log error messages about lines not 
  conforming to keyword=value format).


--- version 2.1.11

* added 'fill', 'copy', and 'empty' actions.


--- version 2.1.10

* 'pipe' and 'report' actions are now able to write to standard output.

* SEC internal event is now also generated when SEC reaches the end of 
  file, and it was started with -notail and -intevents options.

* 'write' action now checks whether write(2) to a pipe transferred all bytes.


--- version 2.1.9

* $- and %-variables can now be used in Perl miniprograms (in context
  expressions and 'eval' actions).

* 'write' action now supports standard output as its output file.

* improved the $- and %-variable masking algorithm - in addition to the
  masking facilities (e.g., %%t) one can use $$ or %% to get the $ or %
  sign before the variable values (e.g., $$$1 now evaluates to
  $<1st backref value>, while with the previous version it yielded $$1).

* Parentheses in context and action definitions can now be masked with 
  backslashes.


--- version 2.1.8

* SEC now reports incorrect values for 'continue' and 'continue2'
  keywords in rule definitions.

* Most action parameters (those that are free-form strings by their nature) 
  can now be enclosed in parantheses, in order to mask possible ; symbols,
  and prevent SEC from splitting the action list in wrong places.

* Prior to this version, it was possible to use only special variables 
  $0,...,$9 and %0,...,%9 in SEC rule definitions (e.g., $10 was considered 
  to be $1 followed by the '0' symbol); this has been fixed.

* Special variables $0, $1, ..., and %0, %1, ... can now be masked by 
  adding the $- or %-prefix to them, e.g., $$1 becomes $1 when $-variables
  are evaluated.

* User-defined %<letter> variables can now be masked by adding the %-prefix
  to the variable, e.g., %%t does not evaluate to the %-sign followed by
  the current timestamp, but rather becomes %t.

* The SEC dumpfile now contains the current date, time, and version number.

* Added -evstoresize, -testonly, and -notestonly flags.


--- version 2.1.7

* Added 'assign' and 'eval' actions, and added support for user-defined 
  variables.

* SEC context expressions can now contain Perl miniprograms as operands
  that will be evaluated with Perl eval() function.

* If the parameter for 'event' action contains newlines, the parameter 
  will be split into lines (i.e., split into parts by using newline as a 
  delimiter), and 'event' action will be executed for each line separately.

* Prior to this version, if the last line in the SEC input file was not 
  terminated with a newline, SEC still processed it immediately.
  This caused problems with lines that were appended to the input file with 
  more than one write. SEC will now consider the line complete and ready 
  for processing only after the terminating newline has been written.

* Prior to this version, if the backreference values inserted to SEC actions 
  contained strings %s, %t and %u, they were erroneously considered to be 
  special variables and replaced with their values. This has now been fixed 
  by temporarily masking all %-characters in backreference values, in order
  to avoid clashes with %s, %t, %u, and user-defined %<letter> variables.

* %-variables can now be used in <filename> parameter of the 'write' action.


--- version 2.1.6

* Added -intevents and -nointevents flags. The -intevents flag will force 
  SEC to generate internal events when SEC is started and when SEC receives
  certain signals.

* Prior to this version, SEC used the following scheme for starting external
  commands: a separate intermediate process was created that handled the
  communication with the running command (e.g., data piping to the standard
  input of the command).  Since shellcmd and spawn actions do not require
  this sort of synchronous communication, SEC does not create intermediate
  processes for these actions anymore.


--- version 2.1.5

* SEC now uses perl strict module


--- version 2.1.4

* fixed the perl close() bug in pipe_cmd() function by using 
  IO::Handle->flush(). This bug caused the SingleWithScript rule to 
  produce incorrect results with some perl versions and OS platforms.

* moved a code fragment from shell_cmd() function to execute_actionlist()


--- version 2.1.3

* fixed a minor bug in analyze_action() function for 'delete' action (it 
  is now verified that the parameter for 'delete' contains no whitespaces)

* improved the code for daemonization


--- version 2.1.2

* added 'write' action

* introduced -debug flag to customize SEC logging

* introduced %t and %u variables that can be used in the
  action field of the rule definition (like %s variable).

* -pid and -log flags are now optional


--- version 2.1.1

* fixed a bug in shell_cmd(): if 'shellcmd' action wrote something to its 
  stdout in version 2.1, the action terminated with 'broken pipe' condition 
  (exit code 141) because no-one was reading the written data.


--- version 2.1

* added 'spawn' action

* IO and IPC handling functions have been completely rewritten - input 
  data are read by blocks, interrupted system calls are handled in a better 
  way, child processes are sent SIGTERM when SEC terminates, etc.

* SIGTERM can now be used to terminate SEC gracefully

* changed default value for -cleantime flag to 1 second

* added -poll_timeout and -blocksize flags

* changed PairWithWindow rule handling in process_rules2


--- version 2.0.2-1, 2.0.2-2

* minor fix of timed_tasks()
* minor fix of analyze_action()

--- version 2.0.1, 2.0.2

* Windows fixes

* Added -fromstart and -nofromstart flags

* Improved SingleWithScript rule: added optional action2 parameter;
  an external program given with 'script' parameter is now supplied
  with the names of all existing contexts (through stdin of the program)

* added check whether dumpfile is a symbolic link

* changed input_shuffled(): fixed file decrease check; SEC will now
  exit when some major errors occur (failed stat() and failed sysseek() 
  on the input filehandle)


--- version 2.0

* configuration file format changed from old field&separator-style format
  to new keyword&value-style format

* added support for multiple configuration files

* added support for parantheses in context definitions

* SIGABRT can now be used for invoking "soft" configuration reloads

* changed the parameters for 'create' action

* added 'pipe', set', 'add' and 'report' actions.

* added support for 'context2' parameter in Pair* rules

* added support for $0 and %0 special variables in regexp matches


--- version 1.1.2
 
* Improved error logging


--- version 1.1.1

* SEC now follows input files by the name and not by i-node (i.e., if
  input file is recreated or truncated, SEC transparently reopens the file
  and starts to process it from the beginning). 
  
* SIGUSR2 is now used for logfile rotation only.


--- version 1.1

* improved logging (log messages will also be written to STDERR, if STDERR
  is connected to terminal - this facilitates interactive debugging)

* changed input handling from buffered to non-buffered
  (sysopen, sysread and sysseek are now used instead of open, <> and seek)

* removed behaviour-after-match field from Suppress rule definition

* added Calendar and SingleWithScript rules

* added support for && and || operators in context definitions

* added support for action lists

* improved create, delete, event and reset actions

* added %1, %2, ... special variables to Pair and PairWithWindow rules

* replaced itosvstream.c with more advanced itostream.c


--- version 1.02

* fixed read_line(), open_input() and match_regexp() subroutines


--- version 1.01

* improved the handling of SIGHUP and SIGUSR2: on the reception of those
  signals input file will also be reopened (in addition to other procedures)

* read_line(): changed input error handling (program does not try to
  reopen the input stream, but calls exit(1) instead)
