Nessus 3.0.5 released

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability =20
of Nessus 3.0.5 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

This release contains the following bug fixes and enhancements :

- Faster startup time, especially on laptops
- Improved the performance of the SYN port scanner
- Vista compatibility improved
- Various minor bug fixes in the nasl engine
- Better chasing of zombie processes

Platform specific changes :

- Windows : Improved Vista compatibility
- Mac OS X : fixed a memory leak in the client
- Mac OS X : fixed the way plugin preferences are processed (some =20
prefs would not be displayed)
- Red Hat/Fedora : The priority of the nessusd startup script is now =20
at 98 instead of 90, so that it starts later in the boot process
- On Debian, the dependencies of the Nessus package have been fixed =20
to reflect the need of libssl0.9.7



Other changes of interest :

- nessusd.conf now accepts the option "listen_address" which can be =20
used to bind the nessusd daemon to a specific port (just like nessusd =20=

-a does). Adding 'listen_address 127.0.0.1" in nessusd.conf will =20
force nessusd to only listen on the loopback interface (thanks to =20
Martin Ma=C4=8Dok for suggesting this)

- If you write your own plugins you'll notice that the changes you =20
make are not reflected in the scan itself until the next plugin =20
update. To speed up the startup time of nessusd, we now compare the =20
timestamp of the plugins db with the time of the last update. This =20
avoids inspecting thousands of files at startup. To force nessusd to =20
inspect the timestamp of every plugin at startup, simply start it =20
with the '-t' switch (as in 'nessusd -t -D').

Other minor fixes :

- nessus-update-plugins now displays a proper error message when =20
plugins.nessus.org is unreachable
- nessus -i report.nbe -o report.html would sometime crash when =20
converting a malformed .nbe file to another format
- In NASL, shared_socket_acquire() now returns 0 on error, not -1



Nessus 3.0.5 is available at <http://www.nessus.org/>

Upgrade instructions are available in the Nessus Installation manual, =20=

available at :
<http://www.nessus.org/documentation/nessus_3.0_installation_guide.pdf>



Thanks,

				-- Renaud

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Renaud Deraison
Tenable Network Security, Inc.
<http://www.tenablesecurity.com/>=
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