Nessus 3.2.0 released

	
Hi there,

Tenable is proud to announce the availability of Nessus
3.2.0, as well  
as NessusClient 3.2.0.

Nessus 3.2.0 is a major release, containing several changes
from  
Nessus 3.0.x :


New Features
-------------

- Support for IPv6 targets (for the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris
and Mac OS  
X flavors)
- Support for limiting the number of active TCP sessions in
parallel  
(per host, per scan, per scanner)
- New "nessuscmd" tool lets one run quick scans
from the command-line
- New "nessus-update" tool lets one update the
Nessus engine from the  
command-line (on select platforms)
- nessusd can now detect hosts which are being turned off
during the  
scan and stop scanning them
- nessusd can now detect when the network is congested and
change the  
TCP settings appropriately
- more granular user rules can be used to prevent the
scanner from  
connecting to certain ports or to use
certain plugins
- The 'nessus' command-line tool can read and write to and
from  
a .nessus file
- Improved WMI support (see http:
//cgi.tenablesecurity.com/tenable/WMI.html)

Improvements
------------

- New nasl functions can dynamically alter the plugin
selection
- Improved memory management by NASL scripts
- Support for more SSH ciphers
(AES-128/AES-192/AES-256/3DES)
- Improved service detection -- a new service detection
plugin  
(find_service.nasl) replaces the old find_service.nes
- On Unix systems, the initial plugin processing now takes
advantage  
of multi-core CPUs
- nessusd.rules now let you tune which plugins are forbidden
for a  
scan, and which ports can/can't be connected to

nessus_tcp_scanner specific improvements
----------------------------------------

- Simplified preferences -- a new cursor option (firewall
detection)  
lets the user better tune the scanner when running against a
firewall  
or a slow link
- Improved RTT estimation and congestion detection by
regularly  
probing unfiltered ports



Windows Specific changes
-------------------------

- NessusGUI.exe has been removed in favor of
NessusClient.exe which is  
now bundled with the installer
- It is now possible to authenticate the clients via SSL
certificates
- KB saving and other options now work
- Installer now lets the users decide which components to
install  
(server, client or both)
- When the scanner is registered, it will automatically
fetch and  
process the new updates from nessus.org every 24 hours



Mac OS X Specific changes
--------------------------

- Fixed a memory leak in the client
- Nessus 3.2.0 now is a real universal binary



Linux platforms
---------------

With Nessus 3.2.0 being a major release, now is a good time
to stop  
supporting some platforms and add support for others. Nessus
is now  
available for the following Linux platforms :

- Debian 4 (i386 and amd64)
- Fedora 7 (i386)
- Fedora 8 (i386)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 (i386)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64)
- SuSE Linux 9.3 and 10.0 (i386)


NessusClient 3.2.0 specific changes
------------------------------------

- New 'network' tab when editing a policy which lets the
user control  
some Nessus 3.2 specific options
- Fixed several bugs which might cause the client to crash
in the  
middle of a scan
- Opening a large .nessus file in the client now takes less
time



Nessus 3.2.0 can be obtained at http://www.nessus.org/

Feedback and bug reports can be sent to http://bugs.nessus.org/


Thanks,

				-- Renaud
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