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Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:17:59 -0800
Hello Everyone, Given that it has been five months since the last "stable" Nmap release (4.11 in June), I think it is time we give the mainstream Nmap users something to play with. With the OS X problem fixed (I hope), Nmap should be in a pretty stable state as it is. So I just posted Nmap 4.20RC1. Please upgrade to this and let us (the list) know if you find any problems. The version number for the next release is still up in the air. If I call it 4.20, all the weed smoking nmap-hackers will love that :). But the OS distributors would prefer "4.21" because their version sorting systems may have trouble determining whether "4.20RC1" or "4.20" should be considered a later version. I'm not sure which constituency (stoners or Debian developers) is more important :). And what if the groups overlap? Like usual, one of the biggest changes in this release is a bunch of new OS fingerprints. Please keep the submissions coming, as that is the limiting factor for how fast the DB grows. I'll do another integration round before the stable release. As you can see, the DB is growing: Synscan (0.1): 25 signatures SinFP (2.02): about 100 signatures Nmap Gen2 (4.20RC1): 189 signatures Xprobe2 (0.3): 225 signatures Nmap Gen1 (4.20RC1): 1,684 signatures I hope we'll surpass Xprobe2 for the stable release! We're only 37 fingerprints away from that, so every submission counts! You can find 4.20RC1 on the download page: http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html And here are the changes since A11: o Fixed (I hope) a bug related to Pcap capture on Mac OS X. Thanks to Christophe Thil for reporting the problem and to Kurt Grutzmacher and Diman Todorov for helping to track it down. o Integrated all of your OS detection submissions since ALPHA11. The DB has increased 27% to 189 signatures. Notable additions include the Apple Airport Express, Windows Vista RC1, OpenBSD 4.0, a Sony TiVo device, and tons of broadband routers, printers, switches, and Linux kernels. Keep those submissions coming! o Upgraded the included LibPCRE from version 6.4 to 6.7. Thanks to Jochen Voss (voss(a)seehuhn.de) for the suggestion (he found some bugs in 6.4) Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate Fyodor (Nov 20)
- Re: Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate nmap-hackers (Nov 20)
- Re: Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate Jonathan Smith (Nov 20)
- Re: Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Nov 20)
- Re: Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate Kurt Grutzmacher (Nov 20)
- Re: Nmap 4.20 Release Candidate Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Nov 20)