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Hello everyone,

The clock just passed midnight, ushering us into the much awaited day
of December 18! On this day comes a new release -- one even more
important than _The Two Towers_. Yes, I'm talking about Nmap
3.10ALPHA7! This version restores support for the One True OS for
paranoid security guys (OpenBSD). Incidentally, I also fixed Windows
compilation and put up Windows (zip format) binaries. And speaking of
bloated software, Nmap has finally reached seven figures:

- -rw-r--r-- 1 fyodor fyodor 1063681 Dec 18 01:03 nmap-3.10ALPHA7.tgz

Yep! This is the first official release tarball to surpass a
megabyte. I hope to keep Nmap expanding at a rate well below that of
improvements in storage and network bandwidth. In exchange for that
extra 70KB, you get more man page translations, an upgraded Libpcap
and a bunch of bugfixes. Oh, and I did some research on US export
laws. It appears that exporting Nmap to most countries is actually
legal under the Commerce Department's Export Control Classification
Number 5D992. Jeez, perhaps I've been wasting my time all these years
with this secret handle business! Maybe I should add a little crypto
to put Nmap in the more hardcore 5D002 classification :).

OK, enough rambling. Here is the CHANGELOG since ALPHA4 (5 and 6 were
unofficial releases):

o Upgraded libpcap from version 0.6.2 to 0.7.1. Updated the
  libpcap-possiblymodified/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS file to give a much
  more extensive list (including diffs) of the changes included
  in the Nmap bundled version of Libpcap.

o Applied patch to fix a libpcap alignment bug found by Tom Duffy
  (tduffysun.com).

o Fixed Windows compilation.

o Applied patch by Chad Loder (cloderloder.us) of Rapid7 which
  fixes OpenBSD compilation. I believe Chad is now the official
  OpenBSD Nmap "port" maintainer. His patch also adjusted
  random-scan (-iR) to include the recently allocated 82.0.0.0/8
  space.

o Fixed (I hope) a few compilation problems on
  non-IPv6-enabled machines which were noted by Josef 'Jupp'
  Schugt (juppgmx.de)

o Included some man page translations which were inadvertently
  missed in previous tarballs.

o Applied patch from Matthieu Verbert (mvezurich.ibm.com) which
  places the Nmap man pages under ${prefix}/share/man rather than
  ${prefix}/man when installed via RPM. Maybe the tarball
  install should do this too? Opinions?

o Applied patch from R Anderson (listboxpole-position.org) which
  improves the way ICMP port unreachables from intermediate hosts
  are handled during UDP scans.

o Added note to man page related to Nmap US export control. I
  believe Nmap falls under ECCN 5D992, which has no special
  restrictions beyond the standard export denial to a handful of
  rogue nations such as Iraq and North Korea.

o Added a warning that some hosts may be skipped and/or repeated
  when someone tries to --resume a --randomize_hosts scan. This
  was suggested by Crayden Mantelium (craydensensewave.com)

o Fixed a minor memory leak noted by Michael Davis
  (mikedatanerds.net).

For those of you running Linux/x86 w/a recent version of rpm
(www.rpm.org), you can install/upgrade to the newest version of
nmap/nmapfe by executing these commands as root:

rpm -vhU (nmap url)
where (nmap url) is one (or both) of these:

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm

For the rest of you, source tarballs and source RPMs are always
available at: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html

For the more paranoid (smart) members of the list, here are the md5
hashes:

e41942becd42e3261cc301eb0d6acce0 nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm
ff6a4d6abe3795f75acdc4dbe4367fd4 nmap-3.10ALPHA7-1.src.rpm
a4085ac2d77d9ddf55c539c34b178474 nmap-3.10ALPHA7.tgz
5a25b99bb106fcf2d423dcd37f3b032d nmap-3.10ALPHA7-win32.zip
350c7279e6ef8505beb7d8317bc75ec6 nmap-frontend-3.10ALPHA7-1.i386.rpm

These release notes should be signed with my PGP key, which is available at
http://www.insecure.org/fyodor_gpgkey.txt .
The key fingerprint is: 97 2F 93 AB 9C B0 09 80 D9 51 40 6B B9 BC E1 7E

Cheers,
Frodor

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