3.59ALPHA7: About to go gold

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

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A couple major bugs were found in 3.59ALPHA6, so I bring you ALPHA7!
This release candidate may be the last before the big public release.
The (few) benchmarks people have been sending me lately have all shown
3.59 being substantially faster than 3.55.  Though I'm certainly still
interested in any contrary results people can find.  The command "nmap
localhost" on my primary development machine went from taking 3
seconds to less than three TENTHS of a second.  The command "nmap -T4
scanme.insecure.org" (which is against a filtered-by-default machine)
over my home aDSL connection improved from taking 31.8 seconds to
19.7.  And results involving multiple machines or UDP scanning are
often far more dramatic than these.

I have again included Windows binaries as well as Linux RPMs and the
standard tarballs.

Here are the changes since ALPHA6:

o Fixed a problem which could cause a deadlock in some dropped packet
  cases.

o Fixed some serious runtime portability issues on *BSD systems.
  Thanks to Eric (catastrophe.net) for reporting the problem.

o Tweaked the License blurb on source files and in the man page.  It
  clarifies some issues and includes a new GPL exception that
  explicitly allows linking with the OpenSSL library.  Some people
  believe that the GPL and OpenSSL licenses are incompatable without
  this special exception.

The URL is:

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/?C=M&O=D

And here are the checksums:

2ed46a20a6bc9e48cec07c997b78e91c  nmap-3.59ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm
61f84e6d459f79d5f128254797094534  nmap-3.59ALPHA7-1.src.rpm
383ac9e1beb4d25e375378aa1ff457ba  nmap-3.59ALPHA7.tar.bz2
5abd46cdf58c2dc973ffaf36bf46c673  nmap-3.59ALPHA7.tgz
96a334723ed89db4f9e8f0dd9ea75a93  nmap-3.59ALPHA7-win32.zip
830e3db7b3b941dfe35483f18bcbe088  nmap-frontend-3.59ALPHA7-1.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

Enjoy!  And please let me know if you find any problems.

Cheers,
Fyodor
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