Thursday, April 15, 2010

gsa 1.0.0-beta6 released

This is the sixth beta release of the optional Greenbone Security Assistant(gsa) module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Mareike Piechowiak, Karl-Heinz Ruskowski, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta5:

* Support for ITG and CPE reports has been improved.
* Support for resuming stopped tasks has been added.
* Support for task scheduling has been added.
* Initial support for editing tasks has been added.
* Support for displaying the version of an installed feed has been added.
* A number of build issues have been fixed.
* The documentation available via the "?" icon has been updated.
* The gsad binary is now installed to /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin.

openvas-manager 1.0.0-beta6 released

This is the sixth beta release of the openvas-manager module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming openvas-manager 1.0.

IMPORTANT: The manager now uses certificate based authentication to authenticate against an openvas-scanner. Please do read the INSTALL file provided with openvas manager and make sure you have openvas-scanner 3.0.2 or higher before installing this manager version!

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hartmut Goebel, Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Joseph Sokol-Margolis, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

openvas-libraries 3.0.5 released

This is the fifth maintenance release of the openvas-libraries module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) 3.0 series.

It contains support for resuming tasks, improved packet forgery support for IPv6 environments and a reworked internal build infrastructure.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release: Tim Brown, Stephan Kleine, Vlatko Kosturjak, Matthew Mundell, Mareike Piechowiak, Preeti Subramanian, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes compared to 3.0.4:

* The build infrastructure for the hg and misc modules has been switch to CMake
from autoconf.
* Support for resuming tasks has been added to OMP.
* Packet forgery support for IPv6 has been improved.
* A build issue on Mandriva has been fixed.