Nmap 2.54BETA28 released

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce that Nmap 2.54BETA28 is now available.  The
biggest change is that I hope the "Unknown datalink type" Libpcap
error has been fixed.  If you get taht error with BETA28, see below.
A few other things have been fixed/updated as well.

I just realized that it has been at least a year since the last
"stable" version (2.53) was released.  Yikes!  We've been doing betas
for a long time.  So I am instituting a "feature feeze" in order to
promote stability.  So please test this out and let me know if you
find any bugs!  Once a stable release is made, we can go back to
adding cool new features :).

I have also begin PGP signing these release so that (if you check the
md5 hashes) you can be sure you have the actual release and not some
trojan.  See below for the key.

Here are the CHANGELOG entries for this release:

-- I hope that I have fixed the Libpcap "Unknown datalink type"
   problem that
   many people reported.  If you still receive this error, please send
   me the following info:
   1) Full output of Nmap including the command you typed
   2) What OS/OS version you are using
   3) What type of interface is the scan going through (PPP, ISDN,
      ethernet, PPPoE, etc)
   4) Whether you compiled from source or used the RPM version

-- Hopefully fixed Libpcap lex/yacc generated file problem that
   plagued a few folks.

-- Various minor fixes/changes/updates

For those of you running Linux/x86 w/a recent version of rpm
(www.rpm.org), you can install/upgrade to the newest version of
nmap/nmapfe with these commands:

rpm -vhU (nmap url)
where (nmap url) is one (or both) of these:

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-2.54BETA28-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-0.2.54BETA28-1.i386.rpm

source tarballs and source RPMs are always available at:
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html

For the more paranoid (smart) members of the list, here are the md5
hashes:

7f23fbe41a907ae489c49a9b66d1f3c2  nmap-2.54BETA28-1.i386.rpm
74041233ec426928c99c0e10eb79dd95  nmap-2.54BETA28-1.src.rpm
b4c45f118254a6a0abb4955cc24b7a79  nmap-2.54BETA28.tgz
9b7dd786a9da1bdd4e02102e0d3f943c  nmap-frontend-0.2.54BETA28-1.i386.rpm

These release notes should be signed with my PGP key, which is available at
http://www.insecure.org/fyodor_gpgkey.txt .  
The key fingerprint is: 97 2F 93 AB 9C B0 09 80 D9 51 40 6B B9 BC E1 7E

Please let me know if you find any problems.

Cheers,
Fyodor

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