Nmap 2.99RC1 Released

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

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Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that Nmap version 2.99RC1 is now available!
This is the first release candidate for Nmap 3, which I plan to
release within a week or so.  This dev cycle was extraordinarily long
(38 releases over 2 years), but the payoff has been large as well!
Once Nmap3 is released, I have many goodies planned for the next
(hopefully shorter) dev branch!

Anyway, the big change in 2.99RC1 is a huge OS fingerprint update --
the biggest since December 1999!  More than 200 fingerprints were
added/modified.  These include OpenBSD 3.1, Solaris 9, Mac OS 10.1.5,
OS/400, FreeBSD 4.6, The latest MS WinXP changes, new CISCO
equiptment, and loads of network devices such as VoIP phones,
switches, printers, WAPs, etc.  Here are the other CHANGELOG entries:

o Updated build system to work on MacOS X.

o I removed "credit" lines from the nmap-os-fingerprints file out of
  concern that evil spammers might harvest the 602 addresses.  Plus
  those took up 28K and the size of nmap-os-fingerprints has already
  caused trouble for some handheld devices.  If anyone actually cares
  about the "fame" of being listed, let me know and I'll put you back
  in.  I still appreciate everyone who submits fingerprints!  I just
  don't want you to be spammed when the fingerprint file goes online.

o Minor usage screen (nmap -h) fix suggested by Martin Kluge 
  ( martin () elxsi info )

o Insured that the initial pound (#) in C preprocessor directives is
  always in column 1 (portability fix).  Problem noted by Shamsher
  Sran (ssran () bechtel com)

Please give it a try and let me know if you encounter any problems!
If all goes well, I may simply change the version number and call this
Nmap 3.

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 by executing these commands as root:

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

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-2.99RC1-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-2.99RC1-1.i386.rpm

For the rest of you, 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:

7e55a9aff13980fe9b7283c5512e418d  nmap-2.99RC1-1.i386.rpm
536b78ef30ef6073298470c4509d4c7c  nmap-2.99RC1-1.src.rpm
ea5dd423ccbd3a8ae54eb60c80d52fa0  nmap-2.99RC1.tgz
063f504bf38c79861111455489a7db9e  nmap-2.99RC1-win32.zip
3a4c06aef20db62974e370afccf5a2bd  nmap-frontend-2.99RC1-1.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

Cheers,
Fyodor

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