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Nmap turns five
David Heath
Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:55
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As seen in a variety of movies – The Matrix Reloaded, Bourne Ultimatum and Die Hard 4 being the best known, Nmap is the tool of choice for movie-makers seeking to portray realistic hacking scenes. Best of all, hacking always looks best when conducted via a text-only interface!
Over the past few years, Nmap has been a major beneficiary of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project where Google has funded internships for promising university students to spend time on major open source projects.
When asked by iTWire how much of the new version was a result of the GSoC program, 'Fyodor' said, "GSoC has been enormously helpful to the Nmap Project. Of the 'Top 5 Improvements' in the release notes, SoC students started three of those projects (Ncat, Ndiff, and NSE), though many regular developers contributed. Also, several of our current top developers were introduced to Nmap development as SoC students."
In 2009, the GSoC program was extended to include the new Policy Fellowship program.
Nmap v5.00 is available for immediate download from the main download page; release notes can be found here. As always, there are versions for Linux (in particular RPM-based distros and Debian etc), Windows, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD and Apple Mac OS X.
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