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Nmap Project Seeking Talented Programmers for Google Summer of Code Fyodor (Apr 26)
Hi Folks. I'm happy to announce that the Nmap Project has again been
accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. This innovative and
extraordinarily generous program provides $5,000 stipends to college and
graduate students who spend the summer improving Nmap! They gain valuable
experience, get paid, strengthen their résumés, and write code for millions
of users.

Previous SoC students helped create the Nmap Scripting Engine, Zenmap...

Nmap 6.25 holiday season release! 85 new scripts, better performance, Windows 8 enhancements, and more Fyodor (Nov 30)
Hi folks. It has been more than five months since the Nmap 6.01
release, and I'm pleased to announce a new version for you to enjoy
during the holidays! Nmap 6.25 contains hundreds of improvements,
including 85 new NSE scripts, nearly 1,000 new OS and service
detection fingerprints, performance enhancements such as the new
kqueue and poll I/O engines, better IPv6 traceroute support, Windows 8
improvements, and much more! It also includes...

Nmap 6.01 Released Fyodor (Jun 22)
Hi folks! I'm happy to report that the Nmap 6.00 release
(http://nmap.org/6 ) last month was a huge success, with hundreds of
thousands of downloads and a bunch of positive articles and reviews.
But any release this big is going to uncover a few issues, so we've
released Nmap 6.01 to address them. This should also appease the more
conservative users who always wait for the first patch update before
installing a major software release....

Nmap 6 Released! Fyodor (May 21)
Hi folks! After almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and
more than a dozen point releases since Nmap 5, I'm delighted to
announce the release of Nmap 6! It includes a more powerful Nmap
Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6
support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!

For the top 6 improvements in Nmap 6, see the release notes:

http://nmap.org/6

Or you can go straight to the...

Last Chance to Apply for the Nmap/Google Summer of Code! Fyodor (Apr 04)
Hi Folks. I'm happy to announce that the Nmap Project has again been
accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. This innovative and
extraordinarily generous program provides $5,000 stipends to college
and graduate students who want to spend the summer improving Nmap!
They gain valuable experience, get paid, strengthen their résumé, and
write code for millions of users.

Previous SoC students helped create the Nmap Scripting Engine,...

Nmap 5.61TEST5 released with 43 new scripts, improved OS & version detection, and more! Fyodor (Mar 09)
Hi folks! We've been working hard for the last 2 months since
5.61TEST4, and I'm pleased to announce the results: Nmap 5.61TEST5.
This release has 43 new scripts, including new brute forcers for http
proxies, SOCKS proxies, Asterisk IAX2, Membase, MongoDB, Nessus
XMLRPC, Redis, the WinPcap remote capture daemon, the VMWare auth
daemon, and old-school rsync. Better check that your passwords are
strong! Some other fun scripts are...

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