Hi there, Tenable is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.0, as well as NessusClient 3.2.0.
Nessus 3.2.0 is a major release, containing several changes from Nessus 3.0.x : New Features ------------- - Support for IPv6 targets (for the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X flavors) - Support for limiting the number of active TCP sessions in parallel (per host, per scan, per scanner) - New "nessuscmd" tool lets one run quick scans from the command-line - New "nessus-update" tool lets one update the Nessus engine from the command-line (on select platforms) - nessusd can now detect hosts which are being turned off during the scan and stop scanning them - nessusd can now detect when the network is congested and change the TCP settings appropriately - more granular user rules can be used to prevent the scanner from connecting to certain ports or to use certain plugins - The 'nessus' command-line tool can read and write to and from a .nessus file - Improved WMI support (see http://cgi.tenablesecurity.com/tenable/WMI.html) Improvements ------------ - New nasl functions can dynamically alter the plugin selection - Improved memory management by NASL scripts - Support for more SSH ciphers (AES-128/AES-192/AES-256/3DES) - Improved service detection -- a new service detection plugin (find_service.nasl) replaces the old find_service.nes - On Unix systems, the initial plugin processing now takes advantage of multi-core CPUs - nessusd.rules now let you tune which plugins are forbidden for a scan, and which ports can/can't be connected to nessus_tcp_scanner specific improvements ---------------------------------------- - Simplified preferences -- a new cursor option (firewall detection) lets the user better tune the scanner when running against a firewall or a slow link - Improved RTT estimation and congestion detection by regularly probing unfiltered ports Windows Specific changes ------------------------- - NessusGUI.exe has been removed in favor of NessusClient.exe which is now bundled with the installer - It is now possible to authenticate the clients via SSL certificates - KB saving and other options now work - Installer now lets the users decide which components to install (server, client or both) - When the scanner is registered, it will automatically fetch and process the new updates from nessus.org every 24 hours Mac OS X Specific changes -------------------------- - Fixed a memory leak in the client - Nessus 3.2.0 now is a real universal binary Linux platforms --------------- With Nessus 3.2.0 being a major release, now is a good time to stop supporting some platforms and add support for others. Nessus is now available for the following Linux platforms : - Debian 4 (i386 and amd64) - Fedora 7 (i386) - Fedora 8 (i386) - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 (i386) - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64) - SuSE Linux 9.3 and 10.0 (i386) NessusClient 3.2.0 specific changes ------------------------------------ - New 'network' tab when editing a policy which lets the user control some Nessus 3.2 specific options - Fixed several bugs which might cause the client to crash in the middle of a scan - Opening a large .nessus file in the client now takes less time Nessus 3.2.0 can be obtained at http://www.nessus.org/ Feedback and bug reports can be sent to http://bugs.nessus.org/ Thanks, -- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
