Nmap 5.20 Released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 26, 2010

“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).”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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