Suricata 2.0 Available!

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The OISF development team is proud to announce Suricata 2.0. This release is a major improvement over the previous releases with regard to performance, scalability and accuracy. Also, a number of great features have been added.

The biggest new features of this release are the addition of “Eve”, our all JSON output for events: alerts, HTTP, DNS, SSH, TLS and (extracted) files; much improved VLAN handling; a detectionless ‘NSM’ runmode; much improved CUDA performance.

The Eve log allows for easy 3rd party integration. It has been created with Logstash in mind specifically and we have a quick setup guide here: Logstash_Kibana_and_Suricata_JSON_output

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Download

Get the new release here: https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/download/suricata-2.0.tar.gz

Notable new features, improvements and changes

  • Eve log, all JSON event output for alerts, HTTP, DNS, SSH, TLS and files. Written by Tom Decanio of nPulse Technologies
  • NSM runmode, where detection engine is disabled. Development supported by nPulse Technologies
  • Various scalability improvements, clean ups and fixes by Ken Steel of Tilera
  • Add –set commandline option to override any YAML option, by Jason Ish of Emulex
  • Several fixes and improvements of AF_PACKET and PF_RING
  • ICMPv6 handling improvements by Jason Ish of Emulex
  • Alerting over PCIe bus (Tilera only), by Ken Steel of Tilera
  • Feature #792: DNS parser, logger and keyword support, funded by Emerging Threats
  • Feature #234: add option disable/enable individual app layer protocol inspection modules
  • Feature #417: ip fragmentation time out feature in yaml
  • Feature #1009: Yaml file inclusion support
  • Feature #478: XFF (X-Forwarded-For) support in Unified2
  • Feature #602: availability for http.log output – identical to apache log format
  • Feature #813: VLAN flow support
  • Feature #901: VLAN defrag support
  • Features #814, #953, #1102: QinQ VLAN handling
  • Feature #751: Add invalid packet counter
  • Feature #944: detect nic offloading
  • Feature #956: Implement IPv6 reject
  • Feature #775: libhtp 0.5.x support
  • Feature #470: Deflate support for HTTP response bodies
  • Feature #593: Lua flow vars and flow ints support
  • Feature #983: Provide rule support for specifying icmpv4 and icmpv6
  • Feature #1008: Optionally have http_uri buffer start with uri path for use in proxied environments
  • Feature #1032: profiling: per keyword stats
  • Feature #878: add storage api

Upgrading

The configuration file has evolved but backward compatibility is provided. We thus encourage you to update your suricata configuration file. Upgrade guidance is provided here: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Upgrading_Suricata_14_to_Suricata_20

Special thanks

We’d like to thank the following people and corporations for their contributions and feedback:

  • Tom DeCanio, nPulse
  • Ken Steele, Tilera
  • Jason Ish, Endace / Emulex
  • Duarte Silva
  • Giuseppe Longo
  • Ignacio Sanchez
  • Florian Westphal
  • Nelson Escobar, Myricom
  • Christian Kreibich, Lastline
  • Phil Schroeder, Emerging Threats
  • Luca Deri & Alfredo Cardigliano, ntop
  • Will Metcalf, Emerging Threats
  • Ivan Ristic, Qualys
  • Chris Wakelin
  • Francis Trudeau, Emerging Threats
  • Rmkml
  • Laszlo Madarassy
  • Alessandro Guido
  • Amin Latifi
  • Darrell Enns
  • Paolo Dangeli
  • Victor Serbu
  • Jack Flemming
  • Mark Ashley
  • Marc-Andre Heroux
  • Alessandro Guido
  • Petr Chmelar
  • Coverity

Known issues & missing features

If you encounter issues, please let us know!  As always, we are doing our best to make you aware of continuing development and items within the engine that are not yet complete or optimal.  With this in mind, please notice the list we have included of known items we are working on.

See issues for an up to date list and to report new issues. See Known_issues for a discussion and time line for the major issues.

About Suricata

Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF, its supporting vendors and the community.