Nessus 1.3.1 is out

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 1.3.1 (experimental).

Nessus 1.3.1 is an experimental release, which means that you may expect it
to crash, produce incomplete reports, wipe out your disk and eat your
children. So please use it with care.  Note that the whole 1.3.x series will
be considered as being unstable.


. changes by Renaud Deraison ([email protected])

- Rewrote the plugins scheduler (which determines the order in which
  the plugins are to be launched). The new one is much more efficient
  but as a result, it is not possible to accurately determine the
  order in which the plugins will be ran, so the 'plugin name' in
  the client is now totally bogus
  
- Fixed various issues with NASL scripts so that they work better
  with NASL2

- Fixed bugs relative to the creation of icmp and udp packets in nasl
  
- Fixed some fatal bugs in the bpf sharer

- NASL scripts do not read /dev/urandom any more, and use time() as a
  random seed instead. As a result, the loading and execution of nasl
  scripts if faster on systems where /dev/urandom can be blocking

- Fixed the tcp NIDS evasion techniques on BSD systems

- Full support for Bugtraq IDs 

- The HTML reports add links for URLs, and show the ID number of
  the plugin that issues the report.

- Speed up the calls to arg_get_value() by using a hash of the name
  being searched for.

- Changed the licence of NASL2 to the GPLv2 (with the consent of Michel Arboi)

. changes by Michel Arboi ([email protected])

- Better handling of the arrays in NASL2

. changes by Erik Anderson ([email protected]) 

- CVE and bugtraq cross references

. changes by Jay ([email protected])

- Fixed multiple typos in the plugins

. changes by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino ([email protected])

- Nessus now ships Hydra 2.2
- Fixed various compilation scritps (see bug#63)



Nessus 1.3.1 is available at :

	ftp://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus/unstable/nessus-1.3.1/
	http://www.nessus.org/experimental.html


Your feedback is important - if it does not work as expected, please fill a bug
report at http://bugs.nessus.org

				-- Renaud