Nmap 420 coming soon!

[iago]

The pot-smoker release -- Read the second full paragraph:

Hello Everyone,

Given that it has been five months since the last "stable" Nmap
release (4.11 in June), I think it is time we give the mainstream Nmap
users something to play with.  With the OS X problem fixed (I hope),
Nmap should be in a pretty stable state as it is.  So I just posted
Nmap 4.20RC1.  Please upgrade to this and let us (the list) know if
you find any problems.

The version number for the next release is still up in the air.  If I
call it 4.20, all the weed smoking nmap-hackers will love that .
But the OS distributors would prefer "4.21" because their version
sorting systems may have trouble determining whether "4.20RC1" or
"4.20" should be considered a later version.  I'm not sure which
constituency (stoners or Debian developers) is more important .  And
what if the groups overlap?

Like usual, one of the biggest changes in this release is a bunch of
new OS fingerprints.  Please keep the submissions coming, as that is
the limiting factor for how fast the DB grows.  I'll do another
integration round before the stable release.  As you can see, the DB
is growing:

Synscan (0.1): 25 signatures
SinFP (2.02): about 100 signatures
Nmap Gen2 (4.20RC1): 189 signatures
Xprobe2 (0.3): 225 signatures
Nmap Gen1 (4.20RC1): 1,684 signatures

I hope we'll surpass Xprobe2 for the stable release!  We're only 37
fingerprints away from that, so every submission counts!

You can find 4.20RC1 on the download page:

http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html

And here are the changes since A11:

o Fixed (I hope) a bug related to Pcap capture on Mac OS X.  Thanks to
  Christophe Thil for reporting the problem and to Kurt Grutzmacher
  and Diman Todorov for helping to track it down.

o Integrated all of your OS detection submissions since ALPHA11.  The
  DB has increased 27% to 189 signatures.  Notable additions include
  the Apple Airport Express, Windows Vista RC1, OpenBSD 4.0, a Sony
  TiVo device, and tons of broadband routers, printers, switches, and
  Linux kernels.  Keep those submissions coming!

o Upgraded the included LibPCRE from version 6.4 to 6.7.  Thanks to
  Jochen Voss (voss(a)seehuhn.de) for the suggestion (he found some bugs
  in 6.4)

Cheers,
Fyodor



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