OpenVAS libraries and scanner 3.1.0 release

OpenVAS libraries

The OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the release of openvas-libraries
3.1.0. This release adds a number of new features, for example support for
NTLMSSP, for LDAP authentication, for preference file uploads to memory, for
logging messages to syslog and for scanning virtual web hosts.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Tim Brown, Geoff Galitz, Stephan Kleine, Goran Licina, Michael Meyer, Matthew
Mundell, Raimund Renkert, Preeti Subramanian, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael
Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes compared to 3.0.5:
* Code cleanup: Code from openvas-administrator and openvas-manager which
could be more appropriately placed in openvas-libraries has been moved here.
* Initial support for LDAP authentication has been added.
* IPv6 support has been improved.
* Support for building parts of openvas-libraries on Windows has been added.
* Support for reading preference file uploads from memory instead of from disk
has been added.
* Support for NTLMSSP has been added.
* Authentication mechanism extended to support LDAP and ADS.
* An issue which caused SSH logins with RSA keys on remote systems to fail
under certain circumstances has been fixed.
* Support for logging to syslog has been added.
* Support for scanning virtual web hosts has been added.

The source tarball for this release is available for download from the OpenVAS
website at http://www.openvas.org/. Binary packages for major GNU/Linux
distributions by third parties are expected in the following weeks.

OpenVAS scanner

The OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the release of openvas-scanner
3.1.0. This release adds a number of new features, for example support for
soft pausing of scans, for retrieving the version of an installed NVT
collection, for automatically installing generated client certificates, for
storing uploaded preference files in memory, for dropping privileges for NASL
and NES NVTs and for scanning virtual web hosts. It also contains updated
feed synchronization scripts and removes legacy support for passwords stored
in plaintext (see OpenVAS change request #31,
http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-31.html).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Geoff Galitz, Michael Meyer, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael
Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes compared to 3.0.2:
* Support for storing scanner passwords in plaintext has been removed.
* Support for dropping privileges in NASL and NES NVTs had been added.
* Support for scanning virtual web hosts has been added.
* The handling of NVTs with an invalid timestamp has been improved.
* A bug in the openvas-nvt-sync script which prevented synchronization via
http under certain circumstances has been fixed.
* Support for retrieving the version of the NVT collection has been added to
the openvas-nvt-sync and greenbone-nvt-sync scripts.
* Support for soft pausing of scans has been added.
* Support for automatically installing generated certificate file has been
added to the openvas-mkcert-client script.
* The obsolete C based NVT "ssl_cipher" has been removed from the
openvas-scanner module. It has been replaced by the NASL
implementation "secpod_ssl_ciphers.nasl".
* Support for storing an uploaded preference file in memory instead of on disk
has been added.

The source tarball for this release is available for download from the OpenVAS
website at http://www.openvas.org/. Binary packages for major GNU/Linux
distributions by third parties are expected in the following weeks.