RE: Nessus 2.2.6 released

Thanks Renaud!  BTW, is this an "in-place" upgrade?  IOW, should you
uninstall prior 2.2.x versions first, or will this install take care of
it for you?

Thanks again, for all the work you've done on this for so long.  I can't
tell you how much I appreciate Nessus!

Chad Uretsky
Lead Network and Security Engineer | NetIQ Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Renaud Deraison
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:44 AM
To: Nessus List; [email protected]
Subject: Nessus 2.2.6 released


I'm happy to announce the availability of Nessus 2.2.6.

Nessus 2.2.6 is a maintenance release which fixes several minor bugs,
adds a new function to the NASL language and contains an improved
version of the Nessus TCP scanner. We recommend to every Nessus 2.2 user
to upgrade to this version.


Here is a quick summary of the changes and improvements in this release
:



+ Changes affecting the Nessus engine :

- Fixed a problem which would prevent nessusd from starting up properly
when the system clock is not configured properly ;

- Under certain circumstances, the plugins preferences may appear twice
in the Nessus GUI ;

- nessus-fetch is more reliable when used in a very low bandwidth
environment ;

- nessusd has higher memory limits when running on a 64 bits CPU ;

- New NASL function socket_get_error() which returns the last error
which occured on a socket (timeout, connection reset, etc...) ;

- Removed the C function http_recv_headers() in favor of
http_recv_headers2() written in NASL ;


+ Changes affecting the Nessus plugins :

- The Windows Bulletin checks now check the version of the files on the
remote host (when possible) instead of looking at the registry ;

- It is now possible to disable CGI scanning entirely in the "Global
Settings" preference panel ;

- Rewritten several key plugins (dcetest.nasl, netbios_name_get.nasl) to
better support the underlying protocol ;

- nessus_tcp_scanner now performs multiple passes, for improved
reliability. It also is much quicker against BSD machines (which have a
rate limitation for the RST they send) ;



Nessus 2.2.6 can be downloaded at <http://www.nessus.org/download/>



				-- Renaud
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