Nmap 4.03 Test Release

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hello everyone,

I'm pleased to release this test version of Nmap 4.03.  If you guys
don't find any problems in the next day or two, I'll do a public
release.  If you do find bugs, I'll pretend it never happened :).  I'm
particularly interested in Windows installation testing, as this
includes a new WinPcap installer (by Doug Hoyte) which is customized
for Nmap.  This release also includes the OS X intel fix, and other
minor fixes and code cleanup.  Note the question in the Changelog
(below) about Win32 builds.  If you know the answer, please post.  You
can find the goods here:

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03.tar.bz2
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03.tgz
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03-setup.exe
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03-win32.zip
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03-1.src.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.03-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.03-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.03-1.x86_64.rpm

And here is the list of changes since 4.02Alpha2:

o Updated the LibPCRE build system to add the -fno-thread-jumps option
  to gcc when compiling on the new Intel-based Apple Mac OS X systems.
  Hopefully this resolves the version detection crashes that several
  people have reported on such systems.  Thanks to Kurt Grutzmacher
  (grutz(a)jingojango.net) for sending the configure.ac patch.

o Made some portability fixes to keep Nmap compiling with the newest
  Visual Studio 2005.  Thanks to KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for
  suggesting them.

o Service fingerprints are now provided in the XML output whenever
  they would appear in the interactive output (i.e. when a service
  respons with data but is unrecognized).  They are shown in a new
  'servicefp' attribute to the 'service' tag.  Thanks to Brandon Enright
  (bmenrigh(a)ucsd.edu) for sending the patch.

o Improved the Windows build system -- mswin32/Makefile now takes care
  of packaging Nmap and creating the installers once Visual Studio (GUI)
  is done building the Release version of mswin32/nmap.sln.  If someone
  knows how to do this (build) step on the command line (using the
  Makefile), please let me know.  Or if you know how to at least make
  'Release' (rather than Debug) the default configuration, that would be
  valuable.

o WinPcap 3.1 binaries are now shipped in the Nmap tarball, along with
  a customized (for Nmap) installer written by Doug Hoyte.  That new
  WinPcap installer is now used in the Nmap self-installer.

o Fixed (I hope) a problem where aggresive --min-parallelization
  option values could cause Nmap to quit with the message "box(300, 100,
  15) called (min,max,num)".  Thanks to  Richard van den Berg
  (richard.vandenberg(a)ins.com) for reporting the problem.

o Fixed a rare crash bug thanks to a report and patch from Ganga
  Bhavani (GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com)

o Increased a write buffer length to avoid Nmap from quitting with the
  message "log_vwrite: write buffer not large enough -- need to
  increase".  Thanks to Dave (dmarcher(a)pobox.com) for reporting the
  issue.

Cheers,
Fyodor


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