Available now for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

Sep 29, 2016 21:50 GMT  ·  By

Today, September 29, 2016, the Nmap developers proudly announced the release of Nmap 7.30, the latest stable version of the free, open source and cross-platform security scanner and network mapper software.

As expected, Nmap 7.30 is a major release that adds numerous new features and improvements, among which we can mention twelve new IPv6 OS fingerprints and seven NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) scripts that have been submitted by various developers. There are now a total of 541 NSE scripts included in Nmap.

Moreover, the new Npcap Windows packet capturing driver and library has been updated to version 0.10r2, a release that includes numerous bug fixes, new match lines and service probes were implemented for Tridium Fox, MQTT, DTLS, ProConOS, IPMI-RMCP, and PCWorx, and the output filtering has been improved.

The new NSE scripts are coap-resources and mqtt-subscribe by Mak Kolybabi, pcworx-info and fox-info by Stephen Hilt, as well as ipmi-brute, ipmi-cipher-zero, and ipmi-version by Claudiu Perta. More details about all the NSE scripts included in the Nmap 7.30 release can be found at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/.

Zenmap improvements, bug fixes

Also new in the Nmap 7.30 release are various improvements to Zenmap, the graphical user interface for Nmap, bug fixes for the ssl-enum-ciphers and ssl-dh-params NSE scripts, the addition of the X509v3 extension parsing to the code of the ssl-cert NSE script, better compatibility with the LibreSSL library, and some Lua fixes.

Nmap 7.30 is available for download right now via our website for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. If you're curious to know which new NSE scripts have been added, and what they can do, don't hesitate to check out the official changelog on the project's website.