Version history
The following table lists significant changes made to this documentation and to the product itself.
The full changelog is available in /usr/share/doc/avast/ChangeLog after installing the Avast
® package.
| Date |
Version |
Changes |
|
2022-01-31
|
4.0
|
Added systemd support.
Added REST API component.
Added support: Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, RHEL 7, RHEL 8.
No longer supported: Debian 9, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, RHEL 6, OpenSUSE.
Changed repo URL and GPG key. See Migration from 3.x to 4.x
|
|
2022-07-31
|
4.1
|
Added support: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, RHEL 9.
Added note about
Amazon Linux 2™
support.
|
|
2022-09-26
|
4.2
|
Support running in a container (without systemd)
|
|
2023-01-26
|
4.3
|
Added standalone avast-license package with avastlic(1) tool. The tool is updated, older versions may stop working soon.
|
Migration from 3.x to 4.x（技術仕様 Version 4.3）
The
program update URL and the
GPG key has been changed.
program update URL
Please update the URL according to the Installation section.
For example:
• DEB: deb
http://deb.avast.com/lin/repo
debian-buster release
⇒ deb
https://repo.avcdn.net/linux-av/deb
debian-buster release
• RPM: baseurl=
http://rpm.avast.com/lin/repo/dists/rhel/release
⇒ baseurl=
https://repo.avcdn.net/linux-av/rpm/el$releasever/release
See Debian/Ubuntu for the supported Debian and Ubuntu releases.
See RHEL/CentOS for the supported RHEL-based distributions.
Avast® public key
The
Avast® public key has been also changed, please install the new key according to Installation section.
All packages and the RPM / DEB repository metadata are signed with Avast
® key.
The public part of that key needs to be imported into APT or RPM package manager according to above instructions, to allow verification of the signatures.
The
Avast® public key file is named
avast-gpg-key.asc .
Full listing of that file can be found in appendix:
Avast® public key.
For convenience, the file can be downloaded directly from
https://repo.avcdn.net/linux-av/doc/avast-gpg-key.asc
Please make sure the content of the downloaded file matches with the copy in the appendix.
• DEB: deb
Install
Avast® public key and update package manager state:
$ sudo cp /path/to/avast-gpg-key.asc /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
$ sudo apt update
• RPM:
Install
Avast® public key:
[root]# rpm --import /path/to/avast-gpg-key.asc
