Downloads

Official source tarballs

We only provide source tarballs. Fail2ban is written in Python, thus no compilation is required. You can even run Fail2ban without installing it.

experimental	:	fail2ban-0.10.x
stable	:	fail2ban-0.9.4
very-stable	:	fail2ban-0.8.14
dont-wanna-be-released-ever-again -- 0.8.x fixes	:	GIT 0.8 branch
yet-to-be-released -- 0.9.x fixes	:	GIT master branch

Source version control

In September 2011 development version control switched from SVN on SF to git, hosted on github. To contribute, please create your own fork of Fail2ban on github, push your changes into it and submit pull requests.

You will also be able to download complete source tarballs for any existing tag/release or development master from fail2ban Releases on github.

Packages

Fail2ban is also already packaged for most distributions by contributors. Many thanks to all of them and you might be better off relying on your distribution delivery and support channels:

Gentoo	Packages are in Portage.
Debian	Packages are available here. Backport builds are available from NeuroDebian
Ubuntu	Packages are available here. Backport builds are available from NeuroDebian
Fedora	RPMs are available by simply running: yum install fail2ban
Red Hat/CentOS	RPMs are available through EPEL.
Gral Linux	RPMs are available here. These RPMs can be used on Centos 3 and RHAS 3 too.
Ipcop	Addon is available here. Thanks to Markus Hoffmann
Mandriva	RPMs are available through official contrib repository. Please run "urpmi fail2ban". Thanks to Tomasz Paweł Gajc
SUSE/openSUSE	RPMs are available here. Thanks to Andrej Semen
ArchLinux	Package is available in AUR.
Slackware	Packages are available here. Thanks to Cristian Vedovato. A SlackBuild script to generate Slackware packages is available here.
FreeBSD	Port is here.
Mac OS X	Available from MacPorts