Hi everyone. I'm pleased to release Nmap 4.23RC2 with all of our
Thanksgiving week changes. We are really getting close to the 10th
anniversary Nmap release now! I think we can finish it within two
weeks (by December 11). So please test this sucker out and report any
problems to the list.
You can simply update your svn, or grab the release over the web:
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3.tar.bz2
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3-setup.exe
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3-win32.zip
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3-1.src.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/zenmap-4.23RC3-1.noarch.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.23RC3.tgz
Here are the changes since 4.23RC2:
o Zenmap now has a man page! It isn't very long yet, but covers the
basics. Thanks to David for writing this.
o A new NSE script, promiscuous.nse, scans devices on a local network
looking for sniffers (devices running in promiscuous mode). This
script is from Marek Majkowski and is the first to use the NSE pcap
extension system (which he also wrote). The script is in the demo
category for now (due to feature freeze), so specify it explicitly
to try it out.
o Nmap can now handle IP aliases on Windows. A given device such as
eth0 might have several IP addresses. Nmap will use the primary
address, so you need to use -S if you want to specify a different
one. [David]
o An exception (rather than luaL_argerror) is now thrown when an SSL
connection is attempted but OpenSSL isn't available. [David]
o There is now an nmap.have_ssl NSE function so you can avoid doing
NSE probes when SSL isn't available. [David]
o Zenmap gives clearer error messages when an import error occurs or
Zenmap's dump files aren't found. [David]
o Zenmap now looks for its data files relative to the directory of the
zenmap script to allow running from the build/svn directory. [David]
o NSE C modules are now installed into an nselib-bin directory. This
was needed to make the dns-test-open-recursion and zoneTrans NSE
scripts work properly, since they use the NSE bit library
(bit.so). [Diman, Fyodor]
o Auxillary autoconf scripts such as config.guess, config.sub,
depcomp, install-sh, and ltmain.sh were deleted from Nmap
subdirectories because configure is smart enough to use the ones from
the parent directory. This decreases the Nmap source tarball and svn
checkout sizes. [David]
o Nmap now compiles on systems which have the libPCRE include file in
pcre/pcre.h rather than just pcre.h. Thanks to Lionel Cons for the
report. [Fyodor]
o Nmap binary is now stripped again, but it now uses -x to avoid
stripping dynamically loaded NSE functions on Mac OS X. [David]
o Normalized Zenmap's handling of results files specified on the
command line. In some cases, Zenmap would ignore specified results
files just because some unrelated options were used. [David]
o configure.ac now uses literal directory names rather than variable
references in calls to AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. This removes an annoying
warning message which has existed for years when you regenerate
configure. [David]
o Fixed a configure.ac error which prevented you from specifying an
alternative libnsock directory. [David]
o Check for Python in configure only if Zenmap is requested, and bail
out if Zenmap is explicitly requested (--with-zenmap) and Python is
not available. [David]
o Removed some unimplemented Zenmap command-line options and function
calls. [David]
Enjoy,
Fyodor
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