Changes

• Code refactoring to improve system performance on heavy loads of over 100 concurrent connections
• Domains rewrite: Rewrite/improvement of domain data structures in core filter code. The update resulted in code that is tighter, faster, isolated and thread-safe. Isolation now exists within the domain module rather than in the main thread.
• Update to startup code to prevent persistent hardware settings on migrated VMs
• Introducing anti-web-hacker code, to look for probing of common website hacking targets (development in progress)
• Improvements to GeoIP default database and updating mechanisms
• New UTM Bad source analysis test
• Fix a 'dot-stuffing' issue in local mail submission scripts
• Update to UI embedded release notes mechanism
• rxScanner analysis extension to allow from/reply comparisons
• Introducing strict utf8 encoding analysis
• Extended dns probe functionality to include SOA records
• Reworked tcp socket communications functions to use poll() instead of select()
• Update mime header parsing to decode mime-encoded mime header strings
• Bug: Message trailer configuration parsing problem fixed
• Bug: Update file maintenance code that was generating unnecessary error messages
• Update configuration backup logic to allow for unattended backups
• Bug: Update address alias management code where some aliases are not properly propagated
• New DNS SOA analysis module
• Update attachment whitelist logic to allow some dangerous attachment types that were being blocked
• Rework test ordering to minimize server resource requirements
• Improvements to outside relay parsing
• General code refactoring/improvements
• Extended backup functionality to allow for batch/script processing.
• Created a "create_backup" maintenance script.
• Reduce verbosity of post_install script.
• Bug: Fixed a bug in the geoip update maintenance process.
• Minor improvements to server validation functionality.
• Bug: Fixed a problem with alternate mailer port expansion code.
• Consolidate dashboard interface to only show the twitter feed, but included a link to the RSS feed.
• Reformat support section in the dashboard.
• OCR: Minor code improvements resulting from Coverity code analysis.
• Code improvements to str*trim library functions.