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
>
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