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Nmap 5.00 Released! Fyodor (Jul 16)
Hello everyone. I'm delighted to announce the release of Nmap 5.00!
This is the first major release since 4.50 in 2007, and includes about
600 significant changes since then! We consider this the most
important Nmap release since 1997, and we recommend that all current
users upgrade.

There are too many changes to list them all in this email, so here are
the top 5 improvements in Nmap 5:

1) The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss Army Knife...

Nmap news: stable release candidate 4.90RC1, SoC team, and new translations Fyodor (Jun 26)
Hi Folks. I'm pleased to announce some exciting Nmap news:

[=================Nmap 4.90RC1==================]

It has been nearly 10 months (and 11 dev releases) since 4.76, the
last stable Nmap release. And we've made many dramatic changes, so it
is time for a new stable version! I've posted a release
candidate--4.90RC1--on the Nmap download page:

http://nmap.org/download.html

Please test it out, and let us know if you find any problems...

Nmap 4.85BETA6 now avail w/Conficker detection Fyodor (Apr 01)
Hi Folks! In case you missed all the news reports yesterday, a couple
great researchers from the Honeynet Project (Tillmann Werner and Felix
Leder) and Dan Kaminsky came up with a way to remotely detect the
Conficker worm which has infected millions of machines worldwide.
Some say 15,000,000 machines infected, but that might just be
exaggerated AV-company BS for all I know. But there are clearly
millions of infections, and this massive botnet...

Nmap News: 4.84BETA4 release, Nmap book news, Summer of Code, Twitter, etc. Fyodor (Mar 27)
Hello everyone. We've seen 848 messages on nmap-dev this year, but
this is my first post to nmap-hackers. So I have a lot of exciting
Nmap news to fit into this one email!

[=================Nmap 4.85BETA4==================]

While the last release I posted to this list was 4.76 in September of
last year, we've had four beta releases since then with hundreds of
important and dramatic changes. I'm pretty happy with the latest
4.85BETA4 release,...

Nmap Network Scanning Book Released! Fyodor (Dec 09)
Nmap Hackers:

After promising you a book on Nmap for years, I'm delighted to finally
announce the release of Nmap Network Scanning! It contains everything
I've learned about network scanning from more than a decade of Nmap
development, plus some bad jokes and (over Time Warner's written
objections) pictures of Trinity hacking the Matrix :). Here is the
abstract:

Nmap Network Scanning is the official guide to the Nmap Security
Scanner, a...

Nmap News: 4.76 release, Defcon presentation online, Is port scanning legal? Fyodor (Sep 23)
Hi everyone. I'm happy to report that the Nmap 4.75 release (with
port frequencies, Zenmap topology, etc.) was a big success. But such
large exposure inevitably leads to bug discovery, so we've
released version 4.76 with about a dozen small fixes and stability
improvements. If 4.75 is working great for you, there is probably no
need to upgrade. But if you encountered problems, or if you are the
type who waits a couple weeks for stabilization...

Nmap 4.75 released Fyodor (Sep 08)
Hi Everyone. I'm delighted to report the release of Nmap 4.75, which
has almost 100 significant improvements since 4.68. Some which I'm
most excited about are:

o While Nmap stands for "Network Mapper", it hasn't been able to
actually draw you a map of the network--until now! Visit
http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-topology.html for details and pretty
pictures of Zenmap's new Scan Topology system.

o I spent much of this summer...

Nmap 4.68 release Fyodor (Jul 31)
Hi All. I'm happy to report that there have been several stable Nmap
releases since I mailed you about Nmap 4.60 in March. The latest
version is 4.68, and I think you'll like it (unless you still use
Win2K, which can be problematic due to IPv6 issues that we hope to
resolve in the next release). Before I give you the full list of 125
improvements, I'll start with a few highlights:

o Added a new --min-rate option that allows specifying a...

Lots of Nmap News Fyodor (Jul 31)
Hi All. I feel derelict for failing to post any Nmap news to this
nmap-hackers list in the last four months, but you can rest assured
that we've been busy on the project! For example, there have been
1,181 posts on the nmap-dev list (not all from me) since my March
nmap-hackers announcements. So you can always join that if you want a
constant flood of Nmap news :). There have also been several stable
Nmap releases since that time, great news...

Nmap accepting applications for Summer of Code developers Fyodor (Mar 24)
It may have taken me four months to send this year's first
nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours. I want to
let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth year
running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This
generous and innovative program provides $4,500 stipends to hundreds
of university students to create or enhance open source software.
Applications are only accepted for one week, until...

Nmap 4.60 and new movies page Fyodor (Mar 24)
Hi everyone. This is the first nmap-hackers message of the year, but
we haven't been slacking. The nmap-dev list has more than 500 posts
so far this quarter, and we've made many great improvements to Nmap
during the period.

Nmap-hackers is reserved for the most important Nmap news, but that
won't prevent me from starting out this message with something
frivolous :). I recently learned that Nmap was in not just one, but
two major motion...

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