Hello, The OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the release of openvas-scanner 3.1.0. This release adds a number of new features, for example support for soft pausing of scans, for retrieving the version of an installed NVT collection, for automatically installing generated client certificates, for storing uploaded preference files in memory, for dropping privileges for NASL and NES NVTs and for scanning virtual web hosts. It also contains updated feed synchronization scripts and removes legacy support for passwords stored in plaintext (see OpenVAS change request #31, http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-31.html).
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release: Geoff Galitz, Michael Meyer, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller. Main changes compared to 3.0.2: * Support for storing scanner passwords in plaintext has been removed. * Support for dropping privileges in NASL and NES NVTs had been added. * Support for scanning virtual web hosts has been added. * The handling of NVTs with an invalid timestamp has been improved. * A bug in the openvas-nvt-sync script which prevented synchronization via http under certain circumstances has been fixed. * Support for retrieving the version of the NVT collection has been added to the openvas-nvt-sync and greenbone-nvt-sync scripts. * Support for soft pausing of scans has been added. * Support for automatically installing generated certificate file has been added to the openvas-mkcert-client script. * The obsolete C based NVT "ssl_cipher" has been removed from the openvas-scanner module. It has been replaced by the NASL implementation "secpod_ssl_ciphers.nasl". * Support for storing an uploaded preference file in memory instead of on disk has been added. The source tarball for this release is available for download from the OpenVAS website at http://www.openvas.org/. Binary packages for major GNU/Linux distributions by third parties are expected in the following weeks. Regards, Michael Wiegand -- Michael Wiegand | Greenbone Networks GmbH | http://www.greenbone.net/ Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Executive Directors: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-announce mailing list Openvas-announce@wald.intevation.org http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-announce
