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General | Installing ClamAV | How to Report A Bug | Miscellaneous FAQ | ClamAV Virus Database FAQ | End of Life Policy (EOL) | Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) | Mailing Lists FAQ | Troubleshooting FAQ | Safebrowsing | Upgrading ClamAV | ClamAV on Microsoft Windows FAQ | Which Version of ClamAV should I use? | Uninstalling ClamAV | ClamAV Overview | Interpreting Scan Alerts FAQ | Freshclam FAQ | How do I ignore a ClamAV signature?
Manual | Clam AntiVirus User Manual
Manual | UserManual | Installing ClamAV on Unix / Linux / macOS from Source | Installing ClamAV on Windows | Introduction | LibClamAV | On-Access Scanning | Creating signatures for ClamAV | Usage | ClamAV Development
Manual | UserManual | Installation-Unix | Installation on Debian and Ubuntu Linux Distributions | Installation on macOS (Mac OS X) | Installation on Redhat and CentOS Linux Distributions
Manual | UserManual | Signatures | Trusted and Revoked Certificates | Body-based Signature Content Format | Bytecode Signatures | Signatures based on container metadata | Database Info | Dynamic Configuration (DCONF) | Passwords for archive files \[experimental\] | Extended signature format | File Type Magic | ClamAV File Types | Functionality Levels (FLEVELs) | File hash signatures | Logical signatures | PhishSigs | Using YARA rules in ClamAV | Allow list databases
Manual | UserManual | Usage | Configuration | Scanning | Signature Testing and Management
Additional | Microsoft Authenticode Signature Verification | Private Local Mirrors
The naming convention for ClamAV releases uses three numbers (X.Y.Z) where the first two (X.Y) identify a feature release and the last one (Z) a patch release.
As of September, 2020, the latest feature release is 0.103.0 and the latest patch release is 0.103.0.
Before releasing a CVD update, we verify that it can be correctly loaded by the latest two feature releases of ClamAV and all the patch versions released after each of them.
We only check the CVD update for false positives using the latest patch release (or feature release, in case there has been no patch release after the last feature release). We only release security fixes for the latest patch release (or feature release, in case there has been no patch release after the last feature release).
Disclaimer: if this policy has to change due to a compatibility problem that prohibits the use of new detection technology, or impacts the stability of ClamAV infrastructure, we will announce the end of life for those versions four months before they become unsupported.
Currently, every version from ClamAV 0.98 and down, including all patch versions, are unsupported.