Nmap Development: Nmap 4.20ALPHA4: Independence Day Release

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hello everyone, and happy Independence Day to those in the US!

I'm happy to announce the next release in the 4.20ALPHA series.  This
one includes many changes and fixes from ALPHA3.  Hopefully the number
of bugs fixed is greater than the new ones introduced.  I actually
tested it a bit on Windows and Linux already.  Here are the goods:

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4.tar.bz2
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4-setup.exe
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4-win32.zip
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4-1.src.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20ALPHA4-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20ALPHA4-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA4.tgz

And here is the CHANGELOG:

o Nmap now provides progress statistics in the XML output in verbose
  mode.  Here are some examples of the format (etc is "estimated time
  until completion) and times are in unix time_t (seconds since 1970) format:
  <taskbegin task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384685" />
  <taskprogress task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384715"
                percent="13.85" remaining="187" etc="1151384902" />
  <taskend task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384776" />
  <taskbegin task="Service scan" time="1151384776" />
  <taskend task="Service scan" time="1151384788" />
  Thanks to Adam Vartanian (flooey(a)gmail.com) for the patch.

o Updated the Windows installer to give an option checkbox for
  performing the Nmap performance registry changes.  The default is to
  do so.  Thanks to Adam Vartanian (flooey(a)gmail.com) for the patch.

o Applied several code cleanup patches from Marek Majkowski.

o Added --release-memory option, which causes Nmap to release all
  accessible memory buffers before quitting (rather than let the OS do
  it).  This is only useful for debugging memory leaks.

o Fixed a bug related to bogus completion time estimates when you
  request an estimate (through runtime interaction) right when Nmap is
  starting.a subsystem (such as a port scan or version detection).
  Thanks to Diman Todorov for reporting the problem and Doug Hoyte for
  writing a fix.

o Nmap no longer gets random numbers from OpenSSL when it is available
  because that turned out to be slower than Nmap's other methods
  (e.g. /dev/urandom on Linux, /dev/arandom on OpenBSD, etc.).  Thanks
  to Marek Majkowski for reporting the problem.

o Updated the Windows binary distributions (self-installer and .zip)
  to include the new 2nd generation OS detection DB (nmap-os-db).
  Thanks to Sina Bahram for reporting the problem.

o Fixed the --max-retries option, which wasn't being honored.  Thanks
  to Jon Passki (jon.passki(a)hursk.com) for the patch.

Enjoy!  And keep reporting those bugs!
-Fyodor



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