Thank you ermal and co.!

[SectorNine50]

Just got the snort package 2.5.1 up and running without a hitch!  Thank you so much for all your hard work, it seems to be running better than ever (RAM usage is way down)!  I felt so naked without my Snort!

[miles267]

I second this and plan to donate.  Thanks Ermal.  Now if only you can come up with an improved Traffic Shaping wizard

[chowtamah]

Thanks ermal, cino and Fesoj.

[johnnybe]

Second that. What they said! 

[caustic386]

Same here - love the new rule category layout!  Are shared objects still a no-go for 64 bit?

Already bought a support sub.

[eri--]

No they are supported afaik.

There are some tweaks to be done related to detecting that a .so has changed and stop/start snort rather than reload.
But will do that soon.

[judex]

The SO rules work in my 2.5.1 - 2.0.1 amd64 installation.

Are the SO rules expected to replace or to complement the related non SO rules with the same name?

[Fesoj]

The shared object rules seem add additional functionality. E.g. the snort_p2p rules are (now) empty, but the associated so rule has support for detecting the WinNY program. When you download the rules, there is a source folder–-so you could actually look at the content of the so rules.