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Nmap Defcon Release: Version 5.35DC1 Fyodor (Jul 16)
Hi folks. It has been 3.5 months since the last Nmap release
(5.30BETA1 on March 29), and anyone following the nmap-dev list knows
that we've been very busy during that time. So I'm pleased to release
Nmap version 5.35DC1 containing the fruits of that labor. The Defcon
name is because that conference is awesome! And also because David
Fifield and I have an exciting Nmap talk planned there and at Black
Hat in a couple weeks (see...

Nmap News and Last Chance to Take the Survey Fyodor (Apr 30)
Hi Folks. I have some Nmap news to share with you:

First off, I'm delighted to introduce the 2010 Nmap/Google Summer of
Code Team! Google has sponsored eight student developers to spend
this summer enhancing the Nmap Security Scanner and related projects,
so you can expect great things in coming months. Ithilgore and Luis
MartinGarcia are returning to improve Ncrack and Nping, new students
Drazen Popovic and Djalal Harouni will be working on...

Survey Reminder Fyodor (Apr 14)
Hi folks, I have a quick question for you:

Q: What do the Nmap Scripting Engine, Ndiff, and the Zenmap Topology
Mapper have in common?

A: They're all features which were added after you asked for them in
the 2006 Nmap Survey!

With that in mind, I'd like to thank the 1,013 people who have already
taken the 2010 survey. We just need 1,987 more and we can close this
survey up, tabulate and share results, choose the prize winners, and
post...

Nmap/SecTools Survey and GSoC Deadline Fyodor (Apr 07)
Hello everyone. I hope you're enjoying the 5.30BETA1 release. So far
it has proven stable and functional, so don't let the BETA name scare
you. You can get it at http://nmap.org/download.html. Meanwhile, I
have some great news, and I'm also asking for your help on two things.

The first is that the Nmap Project was again accepted for the Google
Summer of Code program, so we'll have full time coding help this
summer! SoC previously brought us...

Nmap 5.30BETA1 Released w/37 new scripts and new Apple vuln Fyodor (Mar 29)
Hi folks! It has been two months since the 5.21 release and we've
been very busy during that time! I hope you're happy with the results,
which is a new 5.30BETA1 release made today. Top features include:

o 37 new NSE scripts, bringing the total to 117! New scripts cover
SNMP, SSL, Postgress, MySQL, HTTP, LDAP, NFS, DB2, AFS, and many
more. Also check out the clever host scripts qscan and
ipidseq. Learn about them all at...

Nmap 5.21 released Fyodor (Jan 27)
Hello everyone. I'm pleased to release Nmap 5.21, which contains zero
exciting new features! It is a bug-fix only release instead,
addressing about a dozen issues discovered since 5.20. Thanks for all
the testing and bug reports! None of the bugs are critical, but we
wanted to polish things up since 5.21 may be the latest stable version
for a while. That gives us time to tackle and stabilize big
development projects. If you want to know...

Lots of Nmap News Fyodor (Jan 22)
Hi folks. I'm happy to report that the 5.20 release went well. But
with this many improvements, there will always be a few bugs found.
We're planning to round those up with a bugfix-only 5.21 release next
week. So please test out 5.20 and report any problems you experience:

Download Page: http://nmap.org/download.html
Bug Report Instructions: http://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html

If you're running from a build of the latest SVN checkout, you...

Nmap 5.20 Released Fyodor (Jan 20)
Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first
stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150
significant improvements, including:
o 30+ new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts
o enhanced performance and reduced memory consumption
o protocol-specific payloads for more effectie UDP scanning
o a completely rewritten traceroute engine
o massive OS and version detection DB updates (10,000+ signatures)

The...

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,...

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