"Hi folks! It has been a year since the last Nmap stable release
(5.21) and six months since development version 5.35DC1, so I'm
pleased to release Nmap 5.50! I'm sure you'll find that it was worth
the wait!
A primary focus of this release is the Nmap Scripting Engine, which
has allowed Nmap to expand up the protocol stack and take network
discovery to the next level. Nmap can now query all sorts of
application protocols, including web servers, databases, DNS servers,
FTP, and now even Gopher servers! Remember those? These capabilities
are in self-contained libraries and scripts to avoid bloating Nmap's
core engine.
I'm so excited about NSE that I made it the topic of my presentation
with David Fifield last summer at Defcon and the Black Hat Briefings.
You can watch the video at http://nmap.org/presentations/."
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Nmap 5.50 released! (major update)
