[appsuite-announce] Open-Xchange releases OX Abuse Shield v2.4.0

[Open-Xchange App Suite Maintenance Announcements]

Dear Open-Xchange Customers and Partners,

Open-Xchange is pleased to announce the release of OX Abuse Shield v2.4.0.

OX Abuse Shield provides abuse-prevention for Web Applications (including Webmail), POP, and IMAP. It is integrated with both OX App Suite and OX Dovecot Pro to prevent login and authentication abuse as well as protecting against brute-force attacks.

The goal of OX Abuse Shield is to detect brute forcing of passwords across many servers, services and instances, as well as enforce policy for authentication and authorization. In order to support the real world, brute force detection policy can be tailored to deal with "bulk, but legitimate" users of your service, as well as botnet-wide slow-scans of passwords.

The new OX Abuse Shield v2.4.0 provides the following main improvements:

- New wf_dump_entries tool to dump stats DBs to file
- Forwarding Type in Replication Messages
- Support for Prometheus Metrics
- New HTTP Response Headers
- Improved Logging for Lua Errors
- Replfwd is a daemon to forward replication messages and black/whitelist entries between wforce clusters


What’s New in General and Feature Overview

Open-Xchange provides more detailed overviews and Feature Overview documents relating to new product releases. These can be found at https://www.open-xchange.com/resources/ox-product-updates/whats-new/


General Information – Please Note

- Open-Xchange encourages administrators to regularly update to the latest available release. To ensure a stable and up to date environment please note the different versions supported. An overview of the latest supported Major, Minor and Public Patch Releases can be found in the OXpedia at: https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=OXAbuseShield:Version_Support_Commitment


Shipped packages and versions

- OX Abuse Shield v2.4.0-rev1


Complete Release Notes 

- OX Abuse Shield:
https://software.open-xchange.com/products/weakforced/doc/OX_Abuse_Shield_Release_Notes_for_Release_2.4.0_2020-08-13.pdf


Download and Installation

For further details about OX Abuse Shield installation and configuration, mandatory and optional packages, policies, please refer to the documentation provided: https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:OX_Abuse_Shield

Best regards,
Your Open-Xchange Team

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