zenmapCORE/version.py hasn't been updated, but I'm sure that'll be
remembered for the big 4.50!
Fyodor wrote:
> Hi All. I think Nmap is just about ready for the 10th anniversary
> 4.50 release! I don't plan to put in any more code changes unless
> they address critical issues. So this is truly a "release candidate"
> which warrants its name. 4.50 may be the same thing with just the
> version number updated.
>
> This release does include a lot of good stuff on its own merits,
> including major OS detection DB and version detection DB updates, and
> a large number of big fixes.
>
> But it is important to test 4.49RC4 this weekend so that we find any
> major problems before hordes of users do! Report any problems to this
> list.
>
> If no show stopping bugs are found this weekend, I'll probably release
> 4.50 on Monday or Tuesday.
>
> You can download the new version here:
>
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4.tar.bz2
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4-setup.exe
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4-win32.zip
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4-1.src.rpm
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4-1.i386.rpm
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4-1.x86_64.rpm
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/zenmap-4.49RC4-1.noarch.rpm
> http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.49RC4.tgz
>
> Here are the changes since 4.23RC3:
>
> o David did a huge OS fingerprint integration marathon, going through
> all of your submissions (more than 1600) since August 20. The 2nd
> generation database has grown more than 30% to 1,085 entries! Many
> of the existing fingerprints were improved as well. Notable new or
> greatly improved entries include the iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac OS X
> Leopard FreeBSD 7.0, Linux 2.6.23, Nokia cell phones (E61, E65, E70,
> E90, N95), and OpenBSD 4.2. Of course there were all manner of new
> printers, cable/DSL routers, switches, enterprise routers, IP
> phones, cell phones and a heap of obscure equipment such as the
> BeaconMedaes medical gas alarm. Windows Vista fingerprints were
> also improved significantly. Please keep those OS fingerprint
> submissions and corrections coming!
>
> o Doug integrated all of your version detection fingerprints and
> corrections since October 4. The DB now has an incredible 4,542
> signatures for 449 service protocols. The service protocols with
> the most signatures are http (1,473), telnet (459), ftp (423), smtp
> (327), pop3 (188), http-proxy (111), ssh (104), imap (103), irc (46)
> and nntp (44).
>
> o Included the netbios-smb-os-discovery.nse script which uses NetBIOS
> and SMB queries to guess OS version. This script was written by
> Judy Novak and contributed by Sourcefire.
>
> o Canonicalized the interface type numbers used internally by
> libdnet. Also Libdnet now recognizes devices with type
> INTF_TYPE_IEEE80211 as Ethernet devices. This ought to make
> wireless network scanning work on Windows Vista. For more background
> see http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0391.html. [David]
>
> o Documented the "--script all" option in the man page and NSE
> article. This option executes all scripts in the NSE database
> regardless of category. [Fyodor]
>
> o NSE scripts can now be specified by name without the .nse
> extension. So instead of using "--script
> bruteTelnet.nse,HTTPpasswd.nse,SQLInject.nse,robots.nse", you can
> just pass "--script bruteTelnet,HTTPpasswd,SQLInject,robots". [Kris]
>
> o Removed some auto-generated files from the new nselib-bin directory
> as they could cause compatibility problems. Also updated
> mswin32/Makefile to reflect the new nselib-bin DLL location [David]
>
> o ripeQuery.nse was updated to avoid printing some useless
> information. [Kris]
>
> o Compatibility with systems that have the pcre.h header file in its
> own pcre directory should now be fixed for real. [Fyodor]
>
> o Enhanced the radmind service detection signature and added a
> deprecated radmind port to nmap-services. [Matt Selsky]
>
> o Zenmap now gives better errors to stdout when it can't even pop up a
> dialog box (such as when PyGTK can't be loaded). [David]
>
> o Fixed a Zenmap crash which occurred on Mac OS X and possibly other
> platforms. The error message aid: "object of type
> 'ScanHostDetailsPage' has no len()". [David]
>
> o Fixed a crash which occurred when an NSE script called
> set_port_version() at times that version scanning was not
> enabled. [Diman]
>
> o Fixed the NSIS installer so that it does not include some excess
> files (mswin32/* and .svn). Thanks to Alan Jones for reporting the
> problem. [Fyodor]
>
> o Renamed some Zenmap Python packages to allow Zenmap and Umit to be
> installed at the same time. [David]
>
> o Updated nmap-mac-prefixes with the latest IEEE data. Also added
> back Cooperative Linux virtual NIC which was inadvertently removed in
> a previous release.
>
>
> Enjoy!
> -Fyodor
>
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