Nmap news: stable release candidate 4.90RC1, SoC team, and new translations

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hi Folks.  I'm pleased to announce some exciting Nmap news:

[=================Nmap 4.90RC1==================]

It has been nearly 10 months (and 11 dev releases) since 4.76, the
last stable Nmap release.  And we've made many dramatic changes, so it
is time for a new stable version!  I've posted a release
candidate--4.90RC1--on the Nmap download page:

http://nmap.org/download.html

Please test it out, and let us know if you find any problems (bug
reporting instructions: http://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html).  If this
gets some good testing and no show-stopper bugs are discovered, we
hope to do the major release next week.

Changes are too numerous to list here, but you can find them at
http://nmap.org/changelog.html.  There are more than 100 significant
changes in the five releases since the last one I sent to this list
(4.85BETA6).

[=================Summer of Code==================]

I'm pleased to introduce the 2009 Nmap/Google Summer of Code team!  We
have six students working hard on a network authentication cracker
(ncrack), a raw packet prober (nping), the Nmap Scripting Engine, and
more:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0317.html

You can follow their progress on the nmap-dev mailing list, where they
post updates every Monday night:

http://seclists.org/#nmap-dev

[=================Twitter==================]

We've been posting news tidbits (only 1 or 2 a week) to Twitter.  You
can follow us at:

http://twitter.com/nmap/

[=================Translation News==================]

Open Source Press has just released their German translation of Nmap
Network Scanning. I worked closely with Dinu Gherman, who did the
actual translating, and Dr. Markus Wirtz, who runs things there and
took a great interest in the book. It is currently featured on their
front page at https://www.opensourcepress.de/ and the detail page for
Nmap Netzwerke Scannen, Analysieren und Absichern is at:

https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&backPID=178&tt_products=270

Open Source Press also contributed their German translation of the
Nmap Reference Guide so we could post it free online:

http://nmap.org/man/de/

I'm also happy to announce another new Nmap Reference Guide
translation: Indonesian by Tedi Heriyanto. Here it is:

http://nmap.org/man/id/ 

We now have the Nmap Reference Guide in 16 languages! You can see
them all here:

http://nmap.org/docs.html 

While 16 languages is great, we're always looking for new
translations! If you speak a language other than those 16 (or think
an existing translation needs to be updated/improved) and would like
to help, let me know! Here are the translation instructions:

http://nmap.org/xlate-faq.html

We're also always on the lookout for translators for the Zenmap
frontend. This is a substantially easier job than translating the
whole reference guide. And so far, we only have translations to
German, French, Hungarian, and Brazilian Portuguese. If you'd like to
add your native language, see:

http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-lang.html

Official Brazilian Portuguese and Korean translations of the whole
Nmap Network Scanning book are on the way.  The English version
continues to be a best-seller, and I'm pleased to see some great
reviews:

http://nmap.org/book/#reviews

[=================FIN==================]

That is all for now.  Happy hacking!

-Fyodor

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