2008-09-30 - Snort 2.8.3.1

[*] Improvements
    * Update rule latency thresholding.

[*] Notes
    * The flow and stream4 preprocessors will be deprecated in a
      future release.


2008-09-04 - Snort 2.8.3

[*] New Additions
    * New Feature for HTTP Inspect to split requests into 5 components -
      Method, URI, Header (non-cookie), Cookies, Body.  Added HTTP server
      specific configurations to normalize HTTP header and/or cookie buffers.
      Provided content and PCRE modifiers to allow searches within one or
      more of those individual buffers.  Added content modifier to allow rule
      writer to specify content to be used for fast pattern matcher.
      Updated dynamic rule API to allow searches within the new buffers.

    * Support for MPLS decoding.

    * New option to rule and preprocessor profiling configuration for
      logging to file instead of syslog.

[*] Improvements
    * Update to fix compilation issue on HPUX machines related to rule and
      preprocessor performance profiling.

    * Update to correct the wording of IP datagram length being greater than
      the captured length decoder alert.

    * Update to correct logging issue when using 'ruletype' keyword.