Thanks for the great work! On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello OpenVAS Users, > > with about 50+ backport patches applied since the last beta release we > now have the first release candidate packages for OpenVAS-6! > > Whoever is used to it or feels able to do, please build OpenVAS in your > environment and report any compile problem or other bugs you might detect. > > The new release candidate packages are available here: > > http://www.openvas.org/install-source.html > > The GSD is still the old one, it basically works with the new Manager, but > is clearly neglected regarding new/changed OMP elements. It also appears > to not compile properly on some modern platforms. > > For all other modules rules: > > +++ > +++ If no problems are reported within the next 10 days, > +++ this RC is the final release > +++ > > I would especially be happy if you could not just test the new OpenVAS-6 > in a entirely fresh (separate) environment, but also test > the migration of your OpenVAS-5 environment (of course in a cloned setup!). > Watch out for the change regarding NVT synchronisation (see below)! > Let us know whether it worked flawless or whether you observe any migration > problems. > > Main changes and new features of OpenVAS-6: > > * Renamed "Escalator" to "Alert". > * New: Powerfilters. These allow filtering and sorting across various > objects, can be stored, managed and reused. Also default powerfilters can be > configured. > * New object management for Tasks, Note, Overrides, all of SecInfo Management > and all of Configuration. > The new object management offers consistently browsing, the powerfilter, > cloning and export. Also the "New/Import" elements are now pages of their > own. > * New: Auto-FP feature for trusted vendor updates. > * New: Multiple alerts per task. > * New: Wizard framework with quick start wizard. > * New: SecInfo Management a menu of its own. > * New: CPE, CVE and NVTs now offer full search and browsing. > * New: OVAL information in SecInfo Manegement. > * New: DFN-CERT information in SecInfo Management. > These information are in german from a german CERT. It is a sample > on how regional CERT information can be integrated. Further may follow > upon interest. > * New: Synchronisation of SCAP/CERT data can be triggered from the web > interface. > * New: Support for ISMS tool "verinice" with Report Format Plugins and > Alert for verinice.PRO. > * New: Alert for sending results to a verinice .PRO server. > * New: Password policies for OpenVAS user accounts. > * Improved: Date selection for schedules. > * Improved: Powerfilters can now be attached to Alerts. > * Improved: Now handles daylight saving in schedules. > * Improved: When importing a report, now the host details are also imported. > * Improved: Added switch to control whether a task should contribute to asset > management. > * Improved: Report exports now also contain the family of NVTs. > * Improved: Faster report format plugins LaTeX and PDF. > * Changed: The minimum required version of GNUTLS is now 2.8. > * Changed: The ARF report format plugin is now a pre-defined format. > > * Scanner: Removed built-in logfile rotation. The system environment > technology for logrotate should be used instead. > * Scanner: New optional OTP version 1.1 which is like 1.0 but sends less > info to the client initially. > * Scanner: New: command line switch "--only-cache" to just build the cache > and exit. > * Scanner: Changed: The magic that NVTs of category ACT_SETTINGS were > always enabled even when user disabled them has been removed. OTP clients > now have to take care to enable as needed. > * Changed behaviour of NVT sync script "openvas-nvt-sync": > It will now delete scripts not part of the when using rsync, > except for the directory "private/". > A Migration option "--migrate-to-private" of the sync-script will > move private scripts into the "private/" directory. > The Feed Sync will stop with an error until the "private/" is created. > As soon as this directory is created, the synchronisation will ultimately > delete all files in the local feed directory that are not part of the > regular Feed. > * Scanner: Changed: Newlines in script tags are now escaped. > * Scanner: Changed: The size of tags is not limited anymore. > * Scanner: Internal use of NVTI references by OID to allow using the NVTI > cache properly. This significantly lowers the memory consumption > per Scanner process. > * CLI: New: OMP based Nagios plugin. > * CLI: New (sample) ncurses based OMP interface. > * Administrator: New: Opportunity to specify a password policy. > * Administrator: New: Command line options "--scap-script" > and "--cert-script". > * Manager: New: Command line options --listen2 and --port2 for a second > OMP address. > * Manager: Improved: Serves OMP even when the scanner is down. > > * Various performance improvements. > * Out-of-source builds for all modules supported and recommended. > * For all modules, -Werr has been moved from Release to Debug when building. > > All the best > > Jan > > -- > Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ > Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B > 202460 > Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
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