Snort 2.9.8.3 now available for Security Onion!

Snort 2.9.8.3 was recently released:
http://blog.snort.org/2016/06/snort-2983-has-been-released.html

I've packaged it and the following packages are now available:
securityonion-snort 2.9.8.3-1ubuntu1securityonion1
securityonion-daq 2.0.6-0ubuntu0securityonion5

These new packages should resolve the following issue:

Issue 946: Snort 2.9.8.3
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/issues/946

These packages have been tested by Wes Lambert.  Thanks, Wes!

Updating
These packages are now available in our stable repo.  Please see the following page for full update instructions:
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/Upgrade

This update will back up each of your existing snort.conf files to snort.conf.bak and migrate your HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET variables.  You'll then need to do the following:

• re-apply any other local customizations to your snort.conf file(s)
• update ruleset and restart Snort as follows:
  sudo rule-update

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