mwcollect & nepenthes Fuse In Malware Collection Efforts
The mwcollectd and nepenthes teams have decided to end their independant sojourn as two tools sharing the same aim. mwcollectd will be finished to v3.0.4 soon; development will be discontinued afterwards. nepenthes will be the official successor of mwcollectd. mwcollect.org will become a top-level community covering malware collection efforts, nepenthes will become the official software used for malware collection and be part of mwcollect.org. The mwcollect Alliance will continue to exist with existing mwcollect v3.0.3 sensor and nepenthes sensors later on.
This is not the end of the mwcollect Malware Collection efforts, the codebase used to collect the samples will change and with that the name of the used daemon. The mwcollectd daemon will be discontinued, nepenthes will be continued to be published under the GPL license, a public SVN repository and a Trac for source browsing will be created.
The proposed benefit to the end user is a much more powerful software due to joined forces, the benefit to the developers is that they will need to spend less time on developing due to shared work. End users using nepenthes right now will not have to change anything (except for their browser's bookmark). End users using mwcollect will have to switch nepenthes
The Roadmap for the projects' fusion is:
release of mwcollectd v3.0.4
merge of project pages, setup of new mwcollect.org
