Nessus 1.3.4 is available

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:21:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 1.3.4, which should be the 
last 1.3.x version (meaning that I consider it as being stable and I'm waiting
on users feedback to declare it stable enough to be called "Nessus 2.0.0").

I sent a request for missing features on the nessus devel list today, and
I'm re-iterating it : If you think this version of Nessus is lacking something
critical, let me know NOW.

Hopefully the lifetime of Nessus 1.3.4 should be short (one or two weeks), and
I expect to release Nessus 2.0.0 afterwards.

So :

	Try this version
	Torture it
	Let me know what goes wrong for you with it.


What has changed between Nessus 1.3.4 and 1.3.3 :


. changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at nessus.org)

  - Re-written the process manager for the hosts
  - Lots of bugfixes in the plugins text store manager
  - New port scanner "synscan" which uses the RTT of the packets to do
    its job. 
    - Fixed several small issues in nasl and nessusd (bug fixes, code cleanup)
  - Added cryptographic hashing functions in NASL
  - Added the function get_kb_list() which returns the content of a KB
    without forking the plugin
    - Updated the manpages of nessusd and nasl

. changes by Michel Arboi (mikhail at nessus.org)

  - Fixed scanner_get_port() when running in standalone mode
  - Fixed possible uninitiliazed memory issues in libnasl
  - Started to write the NASL2 reference guide (to be found in libnasl/doc/)



This release can be found at :
	ftp://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus/unstable/nessus-1.3.4/
	http://www.nessus.org/experimental.html