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After release of eics-3.1b a horrible critical bug manifested itself despite the testings made. Bug was fixed as soon as possible and new release was made. This release contains the same bug fixes as the 3.1b + the critical bug fix. The 3.1b bug concerned database pruning. Bad pointer handling caused data loss which caused unability to store database.

I have released this minor bugfix version of eics-3.1a. It fixes few small errors that unearthed themselves on daily use. See changelog for further information on what's been fixed. Unfortunately I forgot to check the Makefile and ended up releasing a busted version first. Well this morning Finnish time, I uploaded the files again, this time with a proper Makefile. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This is a bugfix release for the eics 3.0. I've fixed bugs that I found myself. Please contact me if you find any bugs if you want to see 'em fixed.

This is the brand new eics beta version. This version contains a totally rewritten system that is faster and better than the previous version. Especially speed. I also added support for regular expressions for the file check policy. You can now use power of PCRE to define more flexible and powerful policies.

Also security has been enhanced by making the checks more complete, altough number of hashes for the file has been reduced two. The reason for this is speed and that it does not really improve security having more than two different algorithms. ... read more

New and fully enhanced version of eics is near to completion. Except beta release by end of week 22. The new version has been recreated from mostly scratch.

Also you should check http://eics.sourceforge.net for project homepage. It will be containing more information than this site, such as documentation and support information.

Another release in a short time. The utility had some small bugs which I found out myself this time. The forgotten header did not emerge until I had to use this on a brand new system with the library not installed at all. The symlink fixes should make the software stop alerting about wrong filenames.
I hope you enjoy this new version!

This is the first non-beta release of the eics system. I hope this version delights all you eics users out there, since it contains a new configure script which should allow it to configure itself properly on systems. Please check --help option before using the configure though, or else you find yourself in trouble. Here are the changes made:
Configure script made. Also some fixes & enhancements to the 'inconsistency' reporting system. All notifications are sent to stderr so using eics -c > /dev/null should show changes only. Also changed the output showing only that contents are changed instead of all the different hash methods. Config file is now signed with DSA key as well, for security.

A bugfix for eics has been released. This contains minor updates for the system, which should fix certain handling bugs.

New version of the eics system has been released. Now uses OpenSSL library for signing the database. NOTE that database encryption has been removed in this version, since it's not really useful as it is verified with DSA signature.