Added
- Create greenbone-nvt-sync create lock file during feed sync.
#458
#459 - Extend script_get_preference() to get the value by id. #470
- Add extended environmental variables info to greenbone-nvt-sync help text. #488
- Extend nasl functions which generate results with optional "uri" parameter #526
- Add nasl function to get the host kb index. #530
- Print the filter used by pcap in the error message.
#537
#540
Changed
- The logging of the NASL internal regexp functions was extended to include the pattern in case of a failed regcomp(). #397
- Add config for gpg keyring path (OPENVAS_GPG_BASE_DIR) #407
- Use func instead of FUNCTION #419
- Use pcap_findalldevs() instead of deprecated function pcap_lookupdev() #422 #430
- Add port-range option for openvas-nasl #431
- Add test_alive_hosts_only feature. #456
- Don't reload the plugins when start a new scan. #458
- Drop http feed sync. #478
- Add aligned summary to log at scan end. #496
- Unify log messages about start/end of scan and of hosts. #500
- Use flock to lock the feed lock file. #507
- Move alive detection module (Boreas) into gvm-libs #519
- Allow to set all legal types of icmp v6 in icmp header in openvas-nasl. #542
- The output of the NASL dump_* packet forgery functions was made consistent. #555
- Make drop_privileges setting a scanner-only preference. #557
- Feed lock path is now configurable. #574
Fixed
- Improve signal handling when update vhosts list. #425
- Wait for all children instead of waiting just for one a time. #428
- Don't detect MongoDB as a HTTP service. #447
- Set status finished and send a message if the port list is invalid. #453
- Fix format-truncation warning in GCC 8.2 and later. #461
- Clean the new kb when the scan was stopped and the host has not been started. #494
- Prevent child deadlock. #491
- Memleak fixes for kb_item_get_str(). #502
- Fix denied hosts. #510
- Fix openvas-nasl. Add kb key/value for all vhosts. #533
- Wait for last plugin to finish before change to other category. #534
- Corrected function parameter names in nasl_perror calls. #539
- Various updates to the nasl_perror() error texts. #539
- Fix icmp checksum calculation in openvas-nasl. #543
- Fix ipv6 flow label in nasl_packet_forgery_v6() for openvas-nasl. #545
- Fix name of NASL internal IPPROTO_IP variable. #552
- Fix byte ordering and wrong PROTO identifier in dump_ipv6_packet() for openvas-nasl. #549
- Fix size calculation which lead to alloc error in get_tcp_element() of openvas-nasl. #546
- Fix filter out of default 'radio' type preferences #560
- Allow group access to lockfile and fix empty timestamp #562
Removed
- Removed "network scan" mode. This includes removal of NASL API methods "scan_phase()" and "network_targets()". Sending a "network_mode=yes" in a scanner configuration will have no effect anymore. #493