Nessus 2.0.8 is available
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I'm pleased to announce the Nessus 2.0.8 is available for download now.
I was very happy with 2.0.7 stability-wise (there is no major issue in this
release that I can think of), but found that it was a little slow against
some hosts. After an extensive analysis of the plugin management code, I
noticed a buglet which would not make nessusd use all the potential the
user asked for (ie: when the user asks for ~ 5 plugins in parallel, nessusd
would sometimes only launch 3). This has been fixed and this improves the
performance greatly. I also spotted a couple of other performance-related
issues in the plugins which have been fixed (so if you use
nessus-update-plugins, you should have noticed that Nessus has been a bit
faster against web servers these last days).
Apart from the performance gains, the most noticeable difference is also the
addition of the function script_xref() in NASL scripts. This will allow us
to write scripts that will keep track of third-parties references, such as
CERT advisories. As a result, the format of the table issues by nessus -qSp
has changed slightly to add a new column.
The details of the changes of 2.0.8 are :
o Improved plugins dependencies
o Improved some plugins performances
o Better default values for nessusd.conf
o Fixed insert_ip_options() which was broken
o Fixed a bottleneck in the plugins process manager which would sometimes
not properly distribute the work among the plugins, thus resulting in a
slower test
o Added the function script_xref() in NASL scripts
o Multiple minor bugfixes
o When connecting to SSL servers, Nessus now attempts to use SSLv2 by default
(instead of TLSv1), as the handshake takes less time
Nessus 2.0.8 is available at http://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus/nessus-2.0.8/
and http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html
Nessus 2.1.x developement has started !
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I am also pleased to announce that the developement of Nessus 2.1.x has
started, and will eventually result in the release of Nessus 2.2.0 when
it is ready. Most of the work in Nessus 2.1.x will be (again) devoted
to improving the performances, reducing the overhead on the tested networks,
and improve the reporting.
Note that since the 2.1.x developement started, if you follow the CVS tree,
you need to switch to the NESSUS_2_0 branch if you want to use the stable
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I'm pleased to announce the Nessus 2.0.8 is available for download now.
I was very happy with 2.0.7 stability-wise (there is no major issue in this
release that I can think of), but found that it was a little slow against
some hosts. After an extensive analysis of the plugin management code, I
noticed a buglet which would not make nessusd use all the potential the
user asked for (ie: when the user asks for ~ 5 plugins in parallel, nessusd
would sometimes only launch 3). This has been fixed and this improves the
performance greatly. I also spotted a couple of other performance-related
issues in the plugins which have been fixed (so if you use
nessus-update-plugins, you should have noticed that Nessus has been a bit
faster against web servers these last days).
Apart from the performance gains, the most noticeable difference is also the
addition of the function script_xref() in NASL scripts. This will allow us
to write scripts that will keep track of third-parties references, such as
CERT advisories. As a result, the format of the table issues by nessus -qSp
has changed slightly to add a new column.
The details of the changes of 2.0.8 are :
o Improved plugins dependencies
o Improved some plugins performances
o Better default values for nessusd.conf
o Fixed insert_ip_options() which was broken
o Fixed a bottleneck in the plugins process manager which would sometimes
not properly distribute the work among the plugins, thus resulting in a
slower test
o Added the function script_xref() in NASL scripts
o Multiple minor bugfixes
o When connecting to SSL servers, Nessus now attempts to use SSLv2 by default
(instead of TLSv1), as the handshake takes less time
Nessus 2.0.8 is available at http://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus/nessus-2.0.8/
and http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html
Nessus 2.1.x developement has started !
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I am also pleased to announce that the developement of Nessus 2.1.x has
started, and will eventually result in the release of Nessus 2.2.0 when
it is ready. Most of the work in Nessus 2.1.x will be (again) devoted
to improving the performances, reducing the overhead on the tested networks,
and improve the reporting.
Note that since the 2.1.x developement started, if you follow the CVS tree,
you need to switch to the NESSUS_2_0 branch if you want to use the stable