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Nmap 3.10ALPHA7 Released
From: Frodor <frodor () insecure org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:51:44 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello everyone, The clock just passed midnight, ushering us into the much awaited day of December 18! On this day comes a new release -- one even more important than _The Two Towers_. Yes, I'm talking about Nmap 3.10ALPHA7! This version restores support for the One True OS for paranoid security guys (OpenBSD). Incidentally, I also fixed Windows compilation and put up Windows (zip format) binaries. And speaking of bloated software, Nmap has finally reached seven figures: - -rw-r--r-- 1 fyodor fyodor 1063681 Dec 18 01:03 nmap-3.10ALPHA7.tgz Yep! This is the first official release tarball to surpass a megabyte. I hope to keep Nmap expanding at a rate well below that of improvements in storage and network bandwidth. In exchange for that extra 70KB, you get more man page translations, an upgraded Libpcap and a bunch of bugfixes. Oh, and I did some research on US export laws. It appears that exporting Nmap to most countries is actually legal under the Commerce Department's Export Control Classification Number 5D992. Jeez, perhaps I've been wasting my time all these years with this secret handle business! Maybe I should add a little crypto to put Nmap in the more hardcore 5D002 classification :). OK, enough rambling. Here is the CHANGELOG since ALPHA4 (5 and 6 were unofficial releases): o Upgraded libpcap from version 0.6.2 to 0.7.1. Updated the libpcap-possiblymodified/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS file to give a much more extensive list (including diffs) of the changes included in the Nmap bundled version of Libpcap. o Applied patch to fix a libpcap alignment bug found by Tom Duffy (tduffy () sun com). o Fixed Windows compilation. o Applied patch by Chad Loder (cloder () loder us) of Rapid7 which fixes OpenBSD compilation. I believe Chad is now the official OpenBSD Nmap "port" maintainer. His patch also adjusted random-scan (-iR) to include the recently allocated 82.0.0.0/8 space. o Fixed (I hope) a few compilation problems on non-IPv6-enabled machines which were noted by Josef 'Jupp' Schugt (jupp () gmx de) o Included some man page translations which were inadvertently missed in previous tarballs. o Applied patch from Matthieu Verbert (mve () zurich ibm com) which places the Nmap man pages under ${prefix}/share/man rather than ${prefix}/man when installed via RPM. Maybe the tarball install should do this too? Opinions? o Applied patch from R Anderson (listbox () pole-position org) which improves the way ICMP port unreachables from intermediate hosts are handled during UDP scans. o Added note to man page related to Nmap US export control. I believe Nmap falls under ECCN 5D992, which has no special restrictions beyond the standard export denial to a handful of rogue nations such as Iraq and North Korea. o Added a warning that some hosts may be skipped and/or repeated when someone tries to --resume a --randomize_hosts scan. This was suggested by Crayden Mantelium (crayden () sensewave com) o Fixed a minor memory leak noted by Michael Davis (mike () datanerds net). For those of you running Linux/x86 w/a recent version of rpm (www.rpm.org), you can install/upgrade to the newest version of nmap/nmapfe by executing these commands as root: rpm -vhU (nmap url) where (nmap url) is one (or both) of these: http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm For the rest of you, source tarballs and source RPMs are always available at: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html For the more paranoid (smart) members of the list, here are the md5 hashes: e41942becd42e3261cc301eb0d6acce0 nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm ff6a4d6abe3795f75acdc4dbe4367fd4 nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.src.rpm a4085ac2d77d9ddf55c539c34b178474 nmap-3.10ALPHA7.tgz 5a25b99bb106fcf2d423dcd37f3b032d nmap-3.10ALPHA7-win32.zip 350c7279e6ef8505beb7d8317bc75ec6 nmap-frontend-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm These release notes should be signed with my PGP key, which is available at http://www.insecure.org/fyodor_gpgkey.txt . The key fingerprint is: 97 2F 93 AB 9C B0 09 80 D9 51 40 6B B9 BC E1 7E Cheers, Frodor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBPgBEDM4dPqJTWH2VAQGCLAQAkQU1PD1TBnSTK3CK5pAzhO3OXDHSzFGq wf+qg9hr7g2dOtBt+06/nk1vUupCSgT3Ie/xTnojb/0n2Oa1iRgY9I4y/gn9YsIC 9k7I0YvDGv+WmsZr0KVLwsUu0wsxMlhI7xw9MNtHV5nfl9R6lxdP2msbeAoKtNZq Rt1CrmMzL4M= =x62b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-hackers) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-hackers-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org).
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