Hi all,
I'm in the process of releasing Nessus 1.2.6, which will bring a load of
various fixes that should make everyone happy, and it should make the
{Free,Net,Open}BSD users, as well as the MacOS X users even more happy
(due to the new bpf management system).
Before I do an official release, I would like to make a pre-release,
Nessus 1.2.6rc1.
Why ? Because I think (or hope) that Nessus 1.2.6 will be rock solid,
and as soon as it's released, I will start the developement of Nessus
1.3.x (unstable again). So I'd like to minimize work involved in
maintaining two trees. As soon as the 1.3.x tree is open, a lot of new
features will go in.
That's why I would like everyone to install and test Nessus 1.2.6rc1
(available from ftp://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus-testing/) and report
any build failure, bug or nuisance.
Here is the changelog, compared to 1.2.5 :
1.2.6 :
. changes by Axel Nennker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- fixed the xml and html outputs
- fixed array issues in a couple of plugins
. changes by Michel Arboi ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- ptyexecvp() replaced by nessus_popen() (*)
. changes by Renaud Deraison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Fixed a bug which may make nasl interpret backquoted strings
(\n and \r) received from the network (problem noted by Pavel Kankovsky)
- nmap_wrapper.nes calls _exit() instead of exit() (*)
- nessus-update-plugins accept proxy users whose name or password have a
space in it (problem noted by Patrice Arnal)
- Solved the lack of bpf's on Free/Open/NetBSD and MacOSX by
sharing _one_ among all the Nessus processes. As a result, Nessus's
ping is much more effective on these platforms
- bugfix in plug_set_key() which would eventually make some scripts
take too long when writing in the KB
- Plugins of family ACT_SETTINGS are run *after* plugins of family
ACT_SCANNERS
- replaced the implementation of md5 which was used when OpenSSL is disabled
by the one from RSA (the old one would not work on a big-endian host)
- Fixed plugins build issues on MacOS X
- The nessus client compiles and links against GTK+-2.0. Of course, it will
be horrible and instable, as the GTK team does not care about backward
compatibility
(*) These two modifications solve the problems of nmap hanging under FreeBSD
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