Hello,

The OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the release of
openvas-plugins 1.0.7. This is the last maintenance release of the
openvas-plugins module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System
(OpenVAS).

As it was agreed in Change Request #32
(http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-32.html), the OpenVAS project will no
longer release tarballs of the openvas-plugins module. The NVTs
contained in the openvas-plugins module will continue to be available
through the OpenVAS NVT Feed and as a separate daily updated tar-ball.
Please read the Change Request for details.

The synchronization script and the remaining "C-Plugins" (suffix .nes)
will be migrated to the openvas-server module and will be released with
this module starting with openvas-server 2.1.0.

Please note that this module is no longer needed if you have installed
openvas-server 2.1.0 or newer.

This release fixes various issues discovered after the release of
openvas-plugins 1.0.6 and adds a large number of new Network
Vulnerability Tests (NVTs), now in total over 11,000. Some NVTs are
being reactivated by adding mandatory dependencies - these dependencies
were missing because they were subject to proprietary licensing and thus
were not inherited from Nessus.

Shortly after release date of this version, it will be outdated in terms
of NVTs. NVTs are being updated daily. We strongly recommend that you do
an synchronization using the openvas-nvt-sync command before you
(re-)start the OpenVAS server. This will download the latest NVTs from
the OpenVAS NVT Feed.

If you are packaging this module for a distribution, we recommend that
you include a synchronization in you post-installation routine.

Main changes since 1.0.6:

* More than 1,000 new NVTs have been added.
* A large number of existing NVTs have been updated and improved.
* The Debian packaging files have been updated.
* The synchronization script (openvas-nvt-sync) again preserves
  timestamps when synchronizing.
* The Local Security Checks Generator (LSC-Generator) is now able to
  generate LSCs for Gentoo and HP-UX as well.
* A number of NVTs using the tool "hydra" have been removed from
  openvas-plugins due to licensing issues. Please refer to the ChangeLog
  for details.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Chandrashekhar B, Christian Eric Edjenguele, Goran Licina, Michael
Meyer, Thomas Reinke, Chandan S, Markus Schröder, Jan-Oliver Wagner,
Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller

Regards,

Michael Wiegand

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