The application now better handles scanning names

Oct 25, 2016 23:40 GMT  ·  By

The first point release of the popular, open-source, and cross-platform Nmap 7.30 free security scanner and network mapper arrived, versioned 7.31, adding several important stability improvements, and bug fixes.

New features in Nmap 7.31 include Npcap 0.10r9, which has been upgraded from version 0.10r2 bundled in Nmap 7.30 to add raw 802.11 Wi-Fi capture support, updated Zenmap graphical interface to indicate that better display of hostname is attached to Topology page's address, and IPv6 fingerprint submission improvements.

"To increase the number of IPv6 fingerprint submissions, a prompt for submission will be shown with some random chance for successful matches of OS classes that are based on only a few submissions. Previously, only unsuccessful matches produced such a prompt," read the release notes for Nmap 7.31.

Nmap better handles scanning names that resolve to the same IP address

Among other noteworthy improvements implemented in the Nmap 7.31 maintenance update, we can mention better handling of scanning names that resolve to the same IP address, which means that the IP is now scanned more than once to no longer display bogus results for the other names by using the previous method.

The Nping utility was updated as well to use Npcap on Microsoft Windows platforms. Moreover, an assertion failure that occurred due to floating point error in equality comparison was addressed for the OpenBSD operating system, and it looks like Zenmap's About dialog now fully supports the Spanish language translation.

You can download the source archive of Nmap 7.31 for GNU/Linux operating systems right now via our website, as well as for Windows and Mac OS X platforms. If you have Nmap 7.30 installed on your PC, we recommend that you update as soon as possible to the new release.

Nmap 7.31 Changelog