
ChangeLog for nessus-core, nessus-libraries, nessus-plugins, libnasl

$Id: CHANGES,v 1.10 2000/01/13 21:03:26 renaud Exp $

0.99.4 :

- Several segmentation faults fixed

- The user can now select the timeout value of the security checks read()
  function

- The client can specify an alternate configuration file

- Client : fixed problems regarding when to use the GUI

Previous versions :

- Corrected a problem regarding the list of checks selected by the user

- ${prefix}/var/nessus is created

- Corrected a typo in the code that would generate the preferences
  file

- Changed the behaviour of the nessus client, when it is started in the
  background and a pass phrase is wanted as input.  If available,
  the client terminates while complaining to the stderr.

- Added long options to the nessus client; as a side effect, the command
  line version works under windows, too

- OpenBSD portability issues

- Fixed the process tracker on cipher layer to meet the io thread
  table overflow

- Updated the process mgmnt, provided a general pty interface for
  subprocesses like nmap

- Reduced memory consumption by 50%

- Nessus can now use nmap(1). Thanks to Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@creighton.edu>
  who helped me to figure out how to do this.

- Configuration files now installed in ${prefix}/etc/nessus/

- Man pages for nasl-config, nessus-config, nessus-build, as well
  as patches to problems that may occur during the installation
  by Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>
  
- More efficient way to determine whether a DoS was successful or not.  
  Thanks to Michel Arboi <arboi@bigfoot.com> for the suggestion
  (does not work well yet)

- The communication errors : 'out of threads already' and 'no cookie
  for received packets' have been fixed.

- All the newest security tests  
