Nmap Hackers

Nmap 5.21 released

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:46:47 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:25:43 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:53 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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!

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:38 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:08:52 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:09:02 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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.

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:03:10 GMT

Posted by Fyodor on 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,...