News: Release notes for 1.2.3

Author: val-ms

NEWS.md

@@ -5,7 +5,29 @@ differ slightly from third-party binary packages.
 
 ## 1.2.3
 
-ClamAV 1.2.3 is a critical patch release with the following fix:
+ClamAV 1.2.3 is a critical patch release with the following fixes:
+
+- Updated select Rust dependencies to the latest versions.
+  This resolved Cargo audit complaints and included PNG parser bug fixes.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1226)
+
+- Fixed a bug causing some text to be truncated when converting from UTF-16.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1231)
+
+- Fixed assorted complaints identified by Coverity static analysis.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1236)
+
+- Fixed a bug causing CVDs downloaded by the `DatabaseCustomURL` Freshclam
+  config option to be pruned and then re-downloaded with every update.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1239)
+
+- Added the new 'valhalla' database name to the list of optional databases in
+  preparation for future work.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1239)
+
+- Silenced a warning "Unexpected early end-of-file" that occured when
+  scanning some PNG files.
+  - [GitHub pull request](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1215)
 
 ## 1.2.2