Nmap 5.20 Released

"Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150 significant improvements, including:

" 30+ new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts
enhanced performance and reduced memory consumption
protocol-specific payloads for more effectie UDP scanning
a completely rewritten traceroute engine
massive OS and version detection DB updates (10,000+ signatures)

"The Nmap 5.00 source code and packages for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available for download at the usual place: http://nmap.org/download.html

"Go give it a try! And if you find any bugs, let us know on nmap-dev (http://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html)."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Nmap 5.10BETA1 released(Nov 24, 2009)
• Map your network with Zenmap(Aug 10, 2009)
• Nmap 5.00 Released(Jul 22, 2009)
• Nmap Network Scanning (book review)(Dec 09, 2008)
• In Latest Release, Nmap Looks Better than Ever(Feb 07, 2008)
• Fyodor on Nmap and Sourcefire collaboration(May 23, 2007)