Nmap 7.31 stability-focused point release

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

Hi folks.  I'm happy to report that the big Nmap 7.30 release last month
was a great success.  We didn't even see as many bugs as expected for such
a large release, but we have collected and fixed the ones which did arise
in the last few weeks into a new 7.31 point release.  It includes the
latest updates to our new Npcap driver, a fix for Nping on Windows, and
more.

Nmap 7.31 source code and binary packages for Linux, Windows, and Mac are
available for free download from the usual spot:

https://nmap.org/download.html

If you find any bugs in this release, please let us know on the Nmap Dev
list or bug tracker as described at https://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html.

Here are the changes we put in since 7.30:

• [Windows] Updated the bundled Npcap from 0.10r2 to 0.10r9, bringing
increased stability, bug fixes, and raw 802.11 WiFi capture (unused by
Nmap). Further details on these changes can be found at
https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases. [Yang Luo]

• Fixed the way Nmap handles scanning names that resolve to the same IP.
Due to changes in 7.30, the IP was only being scanned once, with bogus
results displayed for the other names. The previous behavior is now
restored. [Tudor Emil Coman]

• [Nping][GH#559] Fix Nping's ability to use Npcap on Windows. A privilege
check was performed too late, so the Npcap loading code assumed the user
had no rights. [Yang Luo, Daniel Miller]

• [GH#350] Fix an assertion failure due to floating point error in equality
comparison, which triggered mainly on OpenBSD:
    assertion "diff <= interval" failed: file "timing.cc", line 440
  This was reported earlier as [GH#472] but the assertion fixed there was a
different one. [David Carlier]

• [Zenmap] Fix a crash in the About page in the Spanish translation due to
a missing format specifier:
    File "zenmapGUI\About.pyo", line 217, in __init__
    TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
  [Daniel Miller]

• [Zenmap][GH#556] Better visual indication that display of hostname is
tied to address in the Topology page. You can show numeric addresses with
hostnames or without, but you can't show hostnames without numeric
addresses when they are not available. [Daniel Miller]

• To increase the number of IPv6 fingerprint submissions, a prompt for
submission will be shown with some random chance for successful matches of
OS classes that are based on only a few submissions. Previously, only
unsuccessful matches produced such a prompt. [Daniel Miller]

Enjoy this new release and please do let us know if you find any problems!
https://nmap.org/download.html.

Cheers,
Fyodor
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