2004 12 29
Added xboxlive (or maybe just halo 2?).

2004 12 21
Obfuscated e-mail addresses and added some credits.

2004 12 08
Added battlefield1942.

2004 11 28
Added ^ to h323.

2004 11 22
Changed a \x18 to a . in h323.

2004 10 29
Removed "range: bytes=" from openft.  This caused false positives.
Added a cert authority to validcertssl and changed a . to a \.

2004 10 17
Added subspace and skype (skype pattern could use work).

2004 09 13
Added http-itunes and shoutcast.

2004 08 19
Added ciscovpn.  Improved irc (it now matches BitchX connections).

2004 07 07
Added bgp.  Added Makefile and spec file.

2004 07 05
Added msn-filetransfer, zmaap, lpd.  Added a program to test for false
matches. Removed mysql because it has too many false matches.

2004 07 01 
Cleaned up http (had an extraneous line).  Added httpaudio, httpvideo,
httpcachehit and httpcachemiss to extras.  Improved quake-halflife,
bittorrent.

2004 06 27
Fixed hddtemp.  Slight improvements to Yahoo, SMB.  Improvements to 
msnmessenger.  Added TSP.  Small bugfix in timeit.sh

2004 06 01
RDP fixed.  Quicktime added.  Added "extra" directory and moved anything that
was a subset of something else in there.

2004 04 22
The performance testing program didn't do \xHH escapes.  Now it does.

2004 03 24
Fixed gopher, openft.
Added goboogy, tesla, hotline.
Added performance testing program.

2004 02 23
Improved the speed of dns, aim, directconnect, gnutella, http, imap,
nntp, ncp, msnmessenger, audiogalaxy, snmp.  Still slow are (starting
with the worst):  ssh, fasttrack, validcertssl, aim, nbns, quake-halflife,
http, openft.  All the rest are at least 30 times faster than the fastest
of these.  (With Henry Spencer's regexp implementation, which is what we
currently use.)

2004 02 17
Improved HTTP.  Fixed and improved gnutella.  Added hddtemp.

2004 02 08
Added MUTE and openFT.

2004 01 06
Added audiogalaxy.  Improved gnutella.

2004 01 02
Changed quakeworld.pat to quake-halflife.pat .  Improved it (still untested,
though).

Changed kazaa.pat to fasttrack.pat.  Improved it.

2003 12 16
Added H.323.  Improved NNTP, Ident, DNS.
Added "pattern quality" lines to all patterns.

2003 12 11
Added VNC.

2003 12 09
Added jpg, gif, flash.  Updated file_types/README. 
Made edonkey work and moved it to weakpatterns.

2003 11 29
Added CVS.

2003 11 23
Changed directory structure.  All patterns are now in subdirectories.
Made sure that all filenames matched protocol names.  Noted patterns
that require multipacket support.  General cleanup.

2003 11 12
Updated HOWTO to include Netfilter version, etc.
Added comments regarding what I've learned from ipp2p (thanks to Eicke 
Friedrich)
Added applejuice, quake1, quakeworld.
Improved (fixed?) bittorrent.  

2003 10 24
Reverted to single packet ftp pattern. Minor revisions to malware/*

2003 10 08
Added eDonkey2000 pattern.  Added file_type directory (with html, ogg,
pdf, perl, ps, rpm, tar and rtf).  Added malware directory (with Code Red
and Nimda).

2003 09 26
I need to remember to include http in all the releases!  Sorry about that.
Added jabber.

2003 09 24
Added socks, nntp.

2003 09 22
Releases from here on should only be used with >=0.3.0 of the kernel patch
Some significant speed improvements (gopher is no longer slow enough to bring
down the machine when searching large strings) and some small accuracy 
improvements. 
Moved winmx and gopher to weakpatterns.  
Added snmp, snmp-mon and snmp-trap

2003 09 19
Added Samba, telnet.
Added weakpatterns directory, which now contains mysql, finger, netbios.  

2003 09 18
Added directconnect.

2003 09 15
Added biff.  Fixed pop3 again.  Improved SMTP.

2003 09 14
Added rlogin.

2003 09 12
Fixed pop3.  Improved HTTP.

2003 09 10
Added dns, gopher.

2003 09 05 
Improved x11, yahoo. Added bearshare.  Changed all patterns to use \xHH
notation instead of non-printable characters.  This release, therefore,
MUST be used only with version >= 0.2.0 of the kernel patch.

2003 08 28
Added irc, ident, x11.  Made a number of patterns more specific by adding
a '^' at the beginning of the line.  Could have also added some $s at the end
of lines, but in anticipation of matching across packets, didn't.
Improved HOWTO.  

2003 08 21
Added counterstrike, live365, pressplay, winmx. Fixed gkrellm.
Fixed several patterns that used uppercase letters, which can't ever
match.  Will fix the kernel patch soon so that this doesn't matter.
Got rid of the #s in files like this one.  They were annoying.  
Just use "*.pat" in your scripts instead of "*".
Added pattern writing HOWTO.
 
2003 08 19
Fixed ftp.  Added gkrellm. Simplified tftp.

2003 08 09
Fixed dhcp.  Added tftp.  Improved aim.
