2001 news

• 27.11.2001 - New AngeL "No Code" release. Compiling LKM is changed in new kernel release ( by now I've used Debian Potato which came out with 2.2.19 so I didn't notice this before ). You can not include /usr/include/linux directly but use /lib/module/KERNEL-VERSION/build which is a symlink to /usr/include/linux anyway. A patch proposed by Sullivan is also included and it is about sysrq handler address retrival. We are starting on rewriting from scratch AngeL-0.9.0. Stay tuned.
  
• 15.11.2001 - I've got a bad news for all people waiting AngeL 0.9.0 release. My hard drive yesterday had a crash and I've lost my home directory and my local CVS repository with the alpha 0.9.0 release too. So guys you've to wait I restore all the archive and I rewrite the code I've lost. The crash appeared just after a BSOD, any clue?
  
• 29.09.2001 - While developing 0.9.x series we find a bug in src/module/engine.c. If TRAP_SIGNAL wasn't defined sys_kill pointer wasn't correctly initialized so angel_fork, angel_malloc and every routine that called orig_sys_kill generated an oops. Download the latest 0.8.4 release or apply the patch.
  
• 29.09.2001 - We start working on 0.9.x AngeL version codename "Interstellar Overdrive". The most significant feature we'll introduce will be the angel split off in two indipendent modules driven by angel.o. So anyone can choose to apply just the network based or just the host based features.
  
• 31.07.2001 - Thanx to "marco _" and "lupsyn" for reporting some questions about AngeL Makefile which are now fixed. New release recognize 3 new shellcodes and arc "-c option" was fixed. By now, given an exploit code, you can use arc -c in order to tell if the shellcode is known or not. This is the last release for this summer, now we're going for vacation and in september we will start in coding 0.9.x release series.
  
• 22.07.2001 - The Yahoo Groups mailing list link was broken. Thanks to Maria Hernandez who signaled this. Now I suppose everything goes well.
  
• July 2001 - Now we are graduates and we can't use our old server. By now we are hosted by sikurezza.org a great italian security related site.
  
• 07.06.2001 - Yeah, this is the second patch for the version 0.8. It fixes some trouble when trying to call kfree() on some vars in angel_execve() environment testing. Patch is available in Download section.
  
• 29.05.2001 - Just 4 days long and here is the patch. /proc/angel/action/smurf wasn't created in older version due to a silly coding error. Now this proc entry works as it does and arc changed accordingly.
  
• 25.05.2001 - It happened. AngeL 0.8.0 aka "No CodE" is out by now. Fixes some missing #ifdef in signal trapping which doesn't require you to patch your kernel anymore. Version 0.6.0 is no longer supported by now. This is the last stable version before July 2001 when we'll become graduates.
  
• 18.05.2001 - AngeL 0.8.0 Release Candidate 5 is out. Rc 3,4 was development releases never published. Most changes are about some annoying messages in kernel 2.2.xx family about a bad object address when calls to kfree() were made. Now all it's fixed. The format bug attack si now better managed, and the report informations about blocked attacked, are improved.
Final 0.8.0 is going to come out in few weeks.
  
• 03.05.2001 - AngeL 0.8.0 Release Candidate 2 is out. Most changes are about /proc/angel entries. A new entry was added, and some output needed to be fixed. Changes was applied to arc tool as well.
AngeL-0.8.0 final release will be out in a few days.
  
• 11.04.2001 - AngeL 0.8.0 Release Candidate 1 is ready to download. It fixes some memory leaks in execve() system call, it checks also for execution attempts from a suid program and so on... Please note that the way the module is locked to the system where it is installed has changed significantly, check out the README file for more information. The password in /dev/angel is now required twice in order to remove the module correctly. For security reasons, if the password is input only once and then an attempt is made to remove AngeL, the system will halt (no panic, AngeL will sync and remount all the devices read only).
Final 0.8.0 release is planned after Easter. Plase check out the Download section for the latest version.
  
• 21.03.2001 - Today v0.1.28 changes to v0.6.0. Now we are in beta testing phase, we are getting close to v1.0.0
Version numbers now follow linux kernel notation: an odd minor number means a stable release, an even one refers to a development code. The third number is reserved for patch level.
Number 0.6.0 is choosen, because this is the sixth month we have been working on AngeL.
  
• 20.03.2001 - AngeL v0.1.28 is released. Format bugs stuff is added.
  
• 19.03.2001 - Window maker dock application released, to monitor AngeL activity. See download section for details.
  
• 16.03.2001 - version 0.1.27 is released and it is marked as first beta version.
  

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