A huge work
Suricata 1.4 has been released December 13th 2012 and it has been a huge work. The number of modifications is just impressing:
390 files changed, 25299 insertions(+), 11982 deletions(-)
The following video is using gource to display the evolution of Suricata IDS/IPS source code between version 1.3 and version 1.4. It only displays the modified files and do not show the files existing at start.
A collaborative work
A total of 11 different authors have participated to this release. The following graph generated by gitstats shows the number of lines of code by author:
Some words about activity
The activity shows that most of the work is done during week day but there is some work done on sunday:
As shown the following graph, the activity as decreased during the stabilization process:
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