From 2412d40bb17ee8a050f5eef01ef025bb71d4dcbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Val S." Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:31:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS.md with release notes for 1.5.1 --- NEWS.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 4b3becc62..83e7d026b 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -7,6 +7,31 @@ differ slightly from third-party binary packages. ClamAV 1.5.1 is a patch release with the following fixes: +- Fixed a significant performance issue when scanning some PE files. + +- Fixed an issue recording file entries from a ZIP archive central directory + which resulted in "Heuristics.Limits.Exceeded.MaxFiles" alerts when using the + ClamScan `--alert-exceeds-max` command line option or ClamD `AlertExceedsMax` + config file option. + +- Improved performance when scanning TNEF email attachments. + +- Fixed an issue with recording metadata for OOXML office documents. + +- Fixed an issue with signature matches for VBA in OLE2 office documents. + +- Loosened overly restrictive rules for embedded file identification and + increased the limit for finding PE files embedded in other PE files. + +- Fixed an issue with extracting some RAR archives embedded in other files. + +- Fixed an issue with calculating fuzzy hashes affecting some images by updating + the version for several Rust library dependencies. + - This release does not require a newer version of the Rust compiler toolchain + than what was required for ClamAV 1.5.0. + +[GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1606) + ## 1.5.0 ClamAV 1.5.0 includes the following improvements and changes: