# Nmap Changelog ($Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.181 2003/09/15 07:28:45 fyodor Exp $)

Nmap 3.45

o Added new HTTPOptions and RTSPRequest probes suggested by MadHat
  (madhat(a)unspecific.com)

o Integrated more service signatures from MadHat
  (madhat(a)unspecific.com), Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org), Niels
  Heinen (zillion(a)safemode.org), Solar Designer
  (solar(a)openwall.com), Seth Master
  (smaster(a)stanford.edu), and Curt Wilson
  (netw3_security(a)hushmail.com), 

o Applied a patch from Solar Eclipse (solareclipse(a)phreedom.org)
  which increases the allowed size of the 'extrainfo' version field from
  80 characters to 128.  The main benefit is to allow longer apache module
  version strings.

o Fixed Windows compilation.

o Applied some updates to README-WIN32 sent in by Kirby Kuehl
  (kkuehl(a)cisco.com).  He improved the list of suggested registry
  changes and also fixed a typo or two.  He also attached a .reg file
  automate the Nmap connect() scan performance enhancing registry
  changes.  I am now including that with the Nmap Windows binary .zip
  distribution (and in mswin32/ of the source distro).

o Applied a one-line patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv@altlinux.org)
  which fixes a test Nmap does during compilation to see if an existing
  libpcap installation is recent enough.

Nmap 3.40PVT17

o Wrote and posted a new paper on version scanning to
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/versionscan.html .  Updated
  nmap-service-probes and the Nmap man page to simply refer to this
  URL.

o Integrated more service signatures from my own scanning as well as
  contributions from Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org), MadHat
  (madhat(a)unspecific.com), Max Vision (vision(a)whitehats.com), HD
  Moore (hdm(a)digitaloffense.net), Seth Master
  (smaster(a)stanford.edu), and Niels Heinen (zillion(a)safemode.org).
  MadHat also contributed a new probe for Windows Media Service.  Many
  people set a LOT of signatures, which has allowed
  nmap-service-probes to grow from 295 to 356 signatures representing
  85 service protocols!

o Applied a patch (with slight changes) from Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org) which enables caching of SSL sessions so that
  negotiation doesn't have to be repeated when Nmap reconnects to the same
  between probes.

o Applied a patch from Brian Hatch (bri@ifokr.org) which optimizes the
  requested SSL ciphers for speed rather than security.  The list was
  based on empirical evidence from substantial benchmarking he did with
  tests that resemble nmap-service-scanning.

o Updated the Nmap man page to discuss the new version scanning
  options (-sV, -A).

o I now include nmap-version/aclocal.m4 in the distribution as this is
  required to rebuild the configure script ( thanks to Dmitry V. Levin
  (ldv(a)altlinux.org) for notifying me of the problem.

o Applied a patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv(a)altlinux.org) which
  detects whether the PCRE include file is <pcre.h> or <pcre

o Applied a patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv(a)altlinux.org) which
  fixes typos in some error messages.  The patch apparently came from
  the highly-secure and stable Owl and Alt Linux distributions.  Check
  them out at http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ and
  http://www.altlinux.com/

o Fixed compilation on Mac OS X - thanks to Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org> and Ryan Lowe (rlowe(a)pablowe.net) for giving me
  access to Mac OS X boxes.

o Stripped down libpcre build system to remove libtool dependency and
  other cruft that Nmap doesn't need. (this was mostly a response to
  libtool-related issues on Mac OS X).

o Added a new --version_trace option which causes Nmap to print out extensive
  debugging info about what version scanning is doing (this is a subset
  of what you would get with --packet_trace).  You should usually use
  this in combination with at least one -d option.

o Fixed a port number printing bug that would cause Nmap service
  fingerprints to give a negative port number when the actual port was
  above 32K.  Thanks to Seth Master (smaster@stanford.edu) for finding
  this.

o Updated all the header text again to clarify our interpretation of
  "derived works" after some suggestions from Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org)

o Updated the Nsock config.sub/config.guess to the same newer versions
  that Nmap uses (for Mac OS X compilation).

Nmap 3.40PVT16

o Fixed a compilation problem on systems w/o OpenSSL that was
  discovered by Solar Designer.  I also fixed some compilation
  problems on non-IPv6 systems.  It now compiles and runs on my
  Solaris and ancient OpenBSD systems.

o Integrated more services thanks to submissions from Niels Heinen
  (zillion(a)safemode.org).

o Canonicalized the headers at the top of each Nmap/Nsock header src
  file.  This included clarifying our interpretation of derived works,
  updating the copyright date to 2003, making the header a bit wider,
  and a few other light changes.  I've been putting this off for a
  while, because it required editing about a hundred !#$# files!

Nmap 3.40PVT15

o Fixed a major bug in the Nsock time caching system.  This could
  cause service detection to inexplicably fail against certain ports in
  the second or later machines scanned.  Thanks to Solar Designer and HD
  Moore for helping me track this down.

o Fixed some *BSD compilation bugs found by 
  Zillion (zillion(a)safemode.org).

o Integrated more services thanks to submissions from Fyodor Yarochkin
  (fygrave(a)tigerteam.net), and Niels Heinen
  (zillion(a)safemode.org), and some of my own exploring.  There are
  now 295 signatures.

o Fixed a compilation bug found by Solar Designer on machines that
  don't have struct sockaddr_storage.  Nsock now just uses "struct
  sockaddr *" like connect() does.

o Fixed a bug found by Solar Designer which would cause the Nmap
  portscan table to be truncated in -oN output files if the results are
  very long.

o Changed a bunch of large stack arrays (e.g. int portlookup[65536])
  into dynamically allocated heap pointers.  The large stack variables
  apparently caused problems on some architectures.  This issue was
  reported by osamah abuoun (osamah_abuoun(a)hotmail.com).

Nmap 3.40PVT14

o Added IPv6 support for service scan.

o Added an 'sslports' directive to nmap-service-probes.  This tells
  Nmap which service checks to try first for SSL-wrapped ports.  The
  syntax is the same as the normal 'ports' directive for non-ssl ports.
  For example, the HTTP probe has an 'sslports 443' line and
  SMTP-detecting probes have and 'sslports 465' line.

o Integrated more services thanks to submissions from MadHat
  (madhat(a)unspecific.com), Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com), Dug
  Song (dugsong(a)monkey.org), pope(a)undersec.com, and Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org).  There are now 288 signatures, matching these 65
  service protocols:
    chargen cvspserver daytime domain echo exec finger font-service
    ftp ftp-proxy http http-proxy hylafax ident ident imap imaps ipp
    ircbot ircd irc-proxy issrealsecure landesk-rc ldap meetingmaker
    microsoft-ds msrpc mud mysql ncacn_http ncp netbios-ns netbios-ssn
    netsaint netwareip nntp nsclient oracle-tns pcanywheredata pop3
    pop3s postgres printer qotd redcarpet rlogind rpc rsync rtsp shell
    smtp snpp spamd ssc-agent ssh ssl telnet time upnp uucp vnc
    vnc-http webster whois winshell X11

o Added a Lotus Notes probe from Fyodor Yarochkin
  (fygrave(a)tigerteam.net).

o Dug Song wins the "award" for most obscure service fingerprint
  submission.  Nmap now detects Dave Curry's Webster dictionary server
  from 1986 :).

o Service fingerprints now include a 'T=SSL' attribute when SSL
  tunneling was used.

o More portability enhancements thanks to Solar Designer and his Linux
  2.0 libc5 boxes.

o Applied a patch from Gisle Vanem (giva(a)bgnett.no) which improves
  Windows emulation of the UNIX mmap() and munmap() memory mapping calls.

Nmap 3.40PVT13

o Added SSL-scan-through support.  If service detection finds a port to be
  SSL, it will transparently connect to the port using OpenSSL and use
  version detection to determine what service lies beneath.  This
  feature is only enabled if OpenSSL is available at build time.  A
  new --with-openssl=DIR configure option is available if OpenSSL is
  not in your default compiler paths.  You can use --without-openssl
  to disable this functionality.  Thanks to Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org) for sample code and other assistance.  Make sure
  you use a version without known exploitable overflows.  In
  particular, versions up to and including OpenSSL 0.9.6d and
  0.9.7-beta2 contained serious vulnerabilities described at
  http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20020730.txt .  Note that these
  vulnerabilities are well over a year old at the time of this
  writing.

o Integrated many more services thanks to submissions from Brian
  Hatch, HellNBack ( hellnbak(a)nmrc.org ), MadHat, Solar Designer,
  Simple Nomad, and Shawn Wallis (swallis(a)ku.edu).  The number of
  signatures has grown from 242 to 271.  Thanks!

o Integrated Novell Netware NCP and MS Terminal Server probes from
  Simple Nomad (thegnome(a)nmrc.org).

o Fixed a segfault found by Solar Designer that could occur when
  scanning certain "evil" services.

o Fixed a problem reported by Solar Designer and MadHat (
  madhat(a)unspecific.com ) where Nmap would bail when certain Apache
  version/info responses were particularly long.  It could happen in
  other cases as well.  Now Nmap just prints a warning.

o Fixed some portability issues reported by Solar Designer 
  ( solar(a)openwall.com )

Nmap 3.40PVT12

o I added probes for SSL (session startup request) and microsoft-ds
  (SMB Negotiate Protocol request).

o I changed the default read timeout for a service probe from 7.5s to 5s.

o Fixed a one-character bug that broke many scans when -sV was NOT
  given.  Thanks to Blue Boar (BlueBoar(a)thievco.com) for the report.

Nmap 3.40PVT11

o Integrated many more services thanks to submissions from Simple
  Nomad, Solar Designer, jerickson(a)inphonic.com, Curt Wilson, and
  Marco Ivaldi.  Thanks!  The match line count has risen from 201 to 242.

o Implemented a service classification scheme to separate the
  vendor/product name from the version number and any extra info that
  is provided.  Instead of v/[big version string]/, the new match
  lines include v/[vendor/productname]/[version]/[extrainfo]/ .  See
  the docs at the top of nmap-service-probes for more info.  This
  doesn't change the normal output (which lumps them together anyway),
  but they are separate in the XML so that higher-level programs can
  easily match against just a product name.  Here are a few examples
  of the improved service element:
  <service name="ssh" product="OpenSSH" version="3.1p1"
     extrainfo="protocol 1.99" method="probed" conf="10" />
  <service name="domain" product="ISC Bind" version="9.2.1"
     method="probed" conf="10" />
  <state state="open" /><service name="rpcbind" version="2"
     extrainfo="rpc #100000" method="probed" conf="10" />
  <service name="rndc" method="table" conf="3" />

o I went through nmap-service-probes and added the vendor name to more
  entries.  I also added the service name where the product name
  itself didn't make that completely obvious.

o SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken
  to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users
  for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms
  of the GNU GPL.  They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming
  that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid.  Meanwhile
  they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their
  "Supplemental Open Source CD".  In response to these blatant
  violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby
  terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any
  of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux,
  Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare.

Nmap 3.40PVT10

o Added "soft matches".  These are similar to normal match lines in
  that they provide a regex for recognizing a service (but no version).
  But instead of stopping at softmatch service recognition, the scan
  continues looking for more info.  It only launches probes that are
  known-capable of matching the softmatched service.  If no version
  number is found, at least the determined service is printed.  A
  service print for submission is also provided in that case.  So this
  provides more informative results and improves efficiency.

o Cleaned up the Windows support a bit and did more testing and
  fixing.  Windows service detection seems to be working fine for me
  now, although my testing is still pretty limited.  This release
  includes a Windows binary distribution and the README-WIN32 has been
  updated to reflect new compilation instructions.

o More service fingerprints!  Thanks to Solar Designer, Max Vision,
  Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) for the submissions.  I also added a
  bunch from my own testing. The number of match lines went from 179
  to 201.

o Updated XML output to handle new version and service detection
  information.  Here are a few examples of the new output:
  <port protocol="tcp" portid="22"><state state="open" /><service
    name="ssh" version="OpenSSH 3.1p1 (protocol 1.99)" method="probed"
    conf="10" /></port>
  <port protocol="tcp" portid="111"><state state="open" /><service
    name="rpcbind" version="2 (rpc #100000)" method="probed" conf="10" /></port>
  <port protocol="tcp" portid="953"><state state="open" /><service
    name="rndc" method="table" conf="3" /></port>

o Fixed issue where Nmap would quit when ECONNREFUSED was returned
  when we try to read from an already-connected TCP socket.  FreeBSD
  does this for some reason instead of giving ECONNRESET.  Thanks to
  Will Saxon (WillS(a)housing.ufl.edu) for the report.

o Removed the SERVICEMATCH_STATIC match type from
  nmap-service-probes.  There wasn't much benefit of this over regular
  expressions, so it isn't worth maintaining the extra code.

Nmap 3.40PVT9

o Added/fixed numerous service fingerprints thanks to submissions from
  Max Vision, MadHat, Seth Master.  Match lines went
  from 164 to 179.

o The Winpcap libraries used in the Windows build process have been
  upgraded to version 3.0.

o Most of the Windows port is complete.  It compiles and service scan
  works (I didn't test very deeply) on my WinXP box with VS.Net 2003.
  I try to work out remaining kinks and do some cleanup for the next
  version.  The Windows code was restructured and improved quite a bit,
  but much more work remains to be done in that area.  I'll probably
  do a Windows binary .zip release of the next version.

o Various minor fixes

Nmap 3.40PVT8

o Service scan is now OFF by default.  You can activate it with -sV.
  Or use the snazzy new -A (for "All recommended features" or
  "Aggressive") option which turns on both OS detection and service
  detection.

o Fixed compilation on my ancient OpenBSD 2.3 machine (a Pentium 60 :)

o Added/fixed numerous service fingerprints thanks to submissions from
  Brian Hatch, HD Moore, Anand R., and some of my own testing.  The
  number of match lines in this version grows from 137 to 164!  Please
  keep 'em coming!

o Various important and not-so-important fixes for bugs I encountered
  while test scanning.

o The RPC grinder no longer prints a startup message if it has no
  RPC-detected ports to scan.

o Some of the service fingerprint length limitations are relaxed a bit
  if you enable debugging (-d).

Nmap 3.40PVT7

o Added a whole bunch of services submitted by Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org).  I also added a few Windows-related probes.
  Nmap-service-probes has gone from 101 match strings to 137.  Please
  keep the submissions coming.

o The question mark now only appears for ports in the OPEN state and
  when service detection was requested.

o I now print a separator bar between service fingerprints when Nmap
  prints more than one for a given host so that users understand to
  submit them individually (suggested by Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org))

o Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to print "empty" service
  fingerprints consisting of just a semi-colon.  Thanks to Brian Hatch
  (bri(a)ifokr.org) for reporting this.

Nmap 3.40PVT6

o Banner-scanned hundreds of thousands of machines for ports
  21,23,25,110,3306 to collect default banners.  Where the banner made
  the service name/version obvious, I integrated them into
  nmap-service-probes.  This increased the number of 'match' lines from
  27 to more than 100.

o Created the service fingerprint submission page at
  http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/servicefp-submit.cgi

o Changed the service fingerprint format slightly for easier
  processing by scripts.

o Applied a large portability patch from Albert Chin-A-Young
  (china(a)thewrittenword.com).  This cleans up a number of things,
  particularly for IRIX, Tru64, and Solaris.

o Applied NmapFE patch from Peter Marschall (peter(a)adpm.de) which
  "makes sure changes in the relay host and scanned port entry fields
  are displayed immediately, and also keeps the fields editable after
  de- and reactivating them."

Nmap 3.40PVT4

o Limited the size of service fingerprints to roughly 1024 bytes.
  This was suggested by Niels Heinen (niels(a)heinen.ws), because the previous
  limit was excessive.  The number of fingerprints printed is also now
  limited to 10.

o Fixed a segmentation fault that could occur when ping-scanning large
  networks.

o Fixed service scan to gracefully handle host_timeout occurrences when
  they happen during a service scan.

o Fixed a service_scan bug that would cause an error when hosts send
  data and then close() during the NULL probe (when we haven't sent
  anything).

o Applied a patch from Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com) which
  corrects some errors in the Russian man page translation and also a
  couple typos in the regular man page.  Then I spell-checked the man
  page to reduce future instances of foreigners sending in diffs to
  correct my English :).

Nmap 3.40PVT3

o Nmap now prints a "service fingerprint" for services that it is
  unable to match despite returning data.  The web submission page it
  references is not yet available.

o Service detection now does RPC grinding on ports it detects to be
  running RPC.

o Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to quit with an Nsock error when
  --host_timeout was used (or when -T5 was used, which sets it
  implicitly).

o Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to fail to print the OS
  fingerprint in certain cases.  Thanks to Ste Jones
  (root(a)networkpenetration.com) for the problem report.

Nmap 3.40PVT2

o Nmap now has a simple VERSION detection scheme.  The 'match' lines in
  nmap-service-probes can specify a template version string
  (referencing subexpression matches from the regex in a perl-like
  manner) so that the version is determined at the same time as the
  service.  This handles many common services in a highly efficient
  manner.  A more complex form of version detection (that initiates
  further communication w/the target service) may be necessary
  eventually to handle services that aren't as forthcoming with
  version details.

o The Nmap port state table now wastes less whitespace due to using a new
  and stingy NmapOutputTable class.  This makes it easier to read, and
  also leaves more room for version info and possibly other enhancements.

o Added 's' option to match lines in nmap-service-probes.  Just as
  with the perl 's' option, this one causes '.' in the regular
  expression to match any character INCLUDING newline.

o The WinPcap header timestamp is no longer used on Windows as it
  sometimes can be a couple seconds different than gettimeofday() (which
  is really _ftime() on Windows) for some reason.  Thanks to Scott
  Egbert (scott.egbert(a)citigroup.com) for the report.

o Applied a patch by Matt Selsky (selsky(a)columbia.edu) which fixes
  configure.in in such a way that the annoying header file "present but
  cannot be compiled" warning for Solaris.

o Applied another patch from Matt that (we hope) fixes the "present
  but cannot be compiled" warning -- this time for Mac OS X.

o Port table header names are now capitalized ("SERVICE", "PORT", etc)

Nmap 3.40PVT1

o Initial implementation of service detection.  Nmap will now probe
  ports to determine what is listening, rather than guessing based on
  the nmap-services table lookup.  This can be very useful for
  services on unidentified ports and for UDP services where it is not
  always clear (without these probes) whether the port is really open
  or just firewalled.  It is also handy for when services are run on
  the well-known-port of another protocol -- this is happening more
  and more as users try to circumvent increasingly strict firewall
  policies.

o Nmap now uses the excellent libpcre (Perl Compatible Regular
  Expressions) library from http://www.pcre.org/ .  Many systems
  already have this, otherwise Nmap will use the copy it now includes.
  If your libpcre is hidden away in some nonstandard place, give
  ./configure the new --with-libpcre=DIR directive.

o Nmap now uses the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).  This makes
  programming easier, but if it causes major portability or bloat
  problems, I'll reluctantly remove it.

o Applied a patch from Javier Kohen (jkohen(a)coresecurity.com) which
  normalizes the names of many Microsoft entries in the
  nmap-os-fingerprints file.

o Applied a patch by Florin Andrei (florin(a)sgi.com) to the Nmap RPM
  spec file.  This uses the 'Epoch' flag to prevent the Redhat Network
  tool from marking my RPMs as "obsolete" and "upgrading" to earlier
  Redhat-built versions.  A compilation flag problem is also fixed.

Nmap 3.30

o Implemented the largest-ever OS fingerprint update!  Roughly 300
  fingerprints were added/modified.  These massive changes span the
  gamut from AIX 5.1 to the ZyXEL Prestige broadband router line.
  Notable updates include OpenBSD 3.3, FreeBSD 5.1, Mac OS X 10.2.6,
  Windows 2003 server, and more WAPs and broadband routers than you
  can shake a stick at.  Someone even submitted a fingerprint for
  Debian Linux running on the Microsoft Xbox.  You have to love that
  irony :).  Thanks to everyone who submitted fingerprints using the
  URL Nmap gives you when it gets a clean reading but is stumped.  The
  fingerprint DB now contains almost 1000 fingerprints.

o Went through every one of the fingerprints to normalize the
  descriptions a bit.  I also looked up what all of the devices are
  (thanks E*Bay and Google!).  Results like "Nexland ISB Pro800 Turbo"
  and "Siemens 300E Release 6.5" are much more useful when you add the
  words "cable modem" and "business phone system"

o Added a new classification system to nmap-os-fingerprints.  In
  addition to the standard text description, each entry is now
  classified by vendor name (e.g. Sun), underlying OS (e.g. Solaris),
  OS generation (e.g. 7), and device type ("general purpose", router,
  switch, game console, etc).  This can be useful if you want to (say)
  locate and eliminate the SCO systems on a network, or find the
  wireless access points (WAPs) by scanning from the wired side.

o Classification system described above is now used to print out a
  "device type" line and OS categories for matches.  The free-form
  English details are still printed as well.  Nmap can sometimes
  provide classifications even where it used to provide nothing
  because of "too many matches".  These have been added to XML output
  as well.  They are not printed for the "grepable output", as I
  consider that format deprecated.

o Nmap will now sometimes guess in the "no exact matches" case, even
  if you don't use the secret --osscan_guess or -fuzzy options.

o Applied another huge NmapFE patch from Peter Marschall
  (peter(a)adpm.de).  This revamps the interface to use a tabbed
  format that allows for many more Nmap options to be used.  It also
  cleans up some crufty parts of the code.  Let me and Peter know what
  you think (and if you encounter any problems).

o Windows and Amiga ports now use packet receive times from libpcap.
  Let me know if you get any "time computation problem" errors.

o Updated version of the Russian man page translation from Alex Volkov
  (alex(a)cherepovets-city.ru).

Nmap 3.28

o Fixed (I hope) an issue that would cause Nmap to print "Serious time
  computation problem in adjust_timeout ..." and quit.  The ultimate
  cause was demonstrated by this --packet_trace snippet that Russel
  Miller (rmiller(a)duskglow.com) sent me:
  SENT (0.0500s) ICMP 0.0.0.0 > 127.0.0.1 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ...
  RCVD (0.0450s) ICMP 127.0.0.1 > 127.0.0.1 Echo reply (type=0/code=0) ...
  As you can see, the ping reply appears to come BEFORE the request
  was sent(!).  This sort of thing happens on at least Linux and
  Windows.  The send time is obtained from gettimeofday(timeval, NULL),
  while receive time libpcap packet header.  If anyone knows why this
  occurs, or (even better) knows a good way to fix it, let me know.
  For now, I am allowing the response to come up to .05s "before" the
  request.  That is gross.

o For years, Nmap has added -I/usr/local/include and -L/usr/local/lib
  to the compiler line to grab local libraries.  I have removed this
  behavior by default, and added a '--with-localdirs' configure option
  that adds it back.  If Nmap fails to compile now without the above
  option, please let me know.  I can change the default back if this
  change causes more problems than it solves.  People (such as certain
  ports tree packagers) who know they don't want /usr/local should
  specify --without-localdirs rather than relying on that always being
  the default.

o Fixed (I hope) a problem that led to the error message "Assertion
  `tqi->sockets[probe_port_num][seq] == -1' failed".

o Fixed a problem that would cause Nmap on Windows to send ICMP ping
  packets from 0.0.0.0 instead of the appropriate source IP.  Thanks
  to Yeti (boxed(a)blueyonder.co.uk) for the report.

o Applied some changes from Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com)
  which fix some typos and also suggest safer /tmp/ behavior in the
  HACKING file and Lithuanian man page.  These changes are for the
  Nmap package of his Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) distribution. 
  [ http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ ]

o For Solaris, I now define NET_SIZE_T to size_t rather than socklen_t
  in nmap.h.  Isn't that exciting?!!!  Hopefully this will help
  compilation on Solaris 2.6 (and perhaps earlier).  If any Solaris
  users notice new compilation problems, please let me know.  Thanks to
  Al Smith (Al.Smith(a)aeschi.ch.eu.org) for reporting the issue.

o Removed an errant getopt() prototype in nbase/getopt.h which should
  hopefully improve compilation on certain Solaris boxes and BSD
  variants.

o SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent
  (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM.  Bug reports relating to
  UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively.
  Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on
  SCO systems.  Unixware and OpenServer suck.

o Fixed a problem with small --max_parallism values when non-root ping
  scanning that would cause Nmap to say "sendconnecttcpquery: Could
  not scavenge a free socket!" and quit.  Problem was reported by
  Justin A (justin(a)bouncybouncy.net) as Debian Bug #195463.

o Applied (with a few modifications) a large NmapFE patch from Peter
  Marschall (peter(a)adpm.de).  This patch adds a bunch more scan/ping
  options and cleans up some redundant NmapFE code.

o Included new Russian man page translation by Alex Volkov
  (alex(a)cherepovets-city.ru)

o Changed many single-quotes (') into double quotes (") in the man
  page due to a disagreement over whether to represent them as (') or
  (\') in nroff.

o Included --packet_trace support for Explicit Congestion Notification
  (rfc 2481/3168) flags thanks to a patch sent in by Maik Pfeil
  (root(a)bundesspionageministerium.de)

o Included --packet_trace support for a few (unusual) ICMP types in
  case Nmap receives them.  The patch was also sent by Maik Pfeil.

o Fixed a problem with redirecting XML/Grep/Machine output to stdout
  on Windows (e.g. -oX - ).  Problem was reported by Wei Jiang
  (Wei.Jiang(a)bindview.com)

o Made "-g -Wall" compiler flags dependent on availability of gcc/g++
  sine some other compilers do not support them.

o I spam-protected the email addresses in this file.  I fervently hope
  that within 5 years we will be able to defeat this scourge through
  technology and laws, so that we may again list our email addresses
  openly without fear of abuse by criminal spammers.  Oh, and it would
  be a shame if the spiders went through this whole page and only
  found uce@ftc.gov, rhundt@fcc.gov, jquello@fcc.gov, sness@fcc.gov,
  president@whitehouse.gov, haesslich@loyalty.org, and rchong@fcc.gov.

Nmap 3.27

o Nmap now compiles under Amiga thanks to patches sent by Diego
  Casorran (dcr8520(a)amiga.org).

o Fixed a backwards WIN32 ifdef that broke UDP and small-fragment
  scans for some operating systems other than Linux and Windows.
  Thanks to Guido van Rooij (guido(a)gvr.org) for reporting the problem
  and sending a patch.

o Applied patch from Marius Strobl (marius(a)alchemy.franken.de) which improves
  the definition of NET_SIZE_T on FreeBSD so that it compiles on
  64-bit platforms.

Nmap 3.26

o Fixed Mac OS X Compilation (at least on most of the machines
  tested).  You will probably need to type 
  "./configure CPP=/usr/bin/cpp" instead of simply "./configure".  If
  you still have trouble, drop me an email.  Thanks to everyone who
  provided or offered shell accounts!

o Fixed a segmentation fault several people reported that was
  introduced in 3.25.  This problem manifests itself intermittently
  in many normal situations involving large-network scanning.  So all
  3.25 users are urged to upgrade.  Pre-3.25 users should upgrade too,
  since 3.25 included so many improvements :).

Nmap 3.25

o I added UDP-based "ping" scanning.  The -PU option can take an
  optional portlist like the TCP "ping" options (-PS, -PA), but it sends
  a UDP packet to the targets and expects hosts that are up to reply
  with a port unreachable (or possibly a UDP response if the port is
  open).  This one is likely to work best against closed ports, since
  many open ports don't respond to empty requests.

o Fixed (I hope) problem where Nmap would abort, complaining that
  "Assertion `pt->down_this_block > 0' failed".  Thanks to
  ray(a)24hoursecurity.org and mugz(a)x-mafia.com for reporting and
  helping me debug this problem.

o Fixed a GCC dependency reported by Ayamura Kikuchi
  (ayamura(a)keio.net)

o Fixed an "assertion failure" which would cause Nmap to exit when you
  specify a --max_rtt_timeout below 3000.  Thanks to Tammy Rathbun
  (rathbun2(a)llnl.gov) and Jan Roger Wilkens (jrw(a)proseq.net) for
  reporting this.

o Packet receive times are now obtained from libpcap rather than
  simply using the time the packets are passed to Nmap.  This should
  improve performance slightly.  I was not able to get this to work
  properly on Windows (either pcap or raw) -- join the nmap-dev list
  if you have ideas.

o Fixed bug that caused Nmap to ignore certain RST responses when you
  do both -PS and -PA.

o Modified ping scan to work better when many instances of Nmap are
  executed concurrently.

o I'm now linking directly to the gzip compressed version of Nmap on
  the homepage as well as the .bz2.

o Fixed a portability problem that caused BSD Make to bail out.

o Fixed a divide by zero error caused when nonroot users (on UNIX)
  explicitly request ICMP pings (which require root privileges).  Now it
  prints a warning and uses the normal nonroot TCP connect() ping.
  Jaroslav Sladek (jup(a)matfyz.cz) found the bug and provided the patch.

o Made Nmap more tolerant of corrupt nmap-services and nmap-protocols
  files thanks to report & patch sent by Phix (phix(a)hush.com)

o Added some more port numbers sent in by Seth Master
  (smaster(a)stanford.edu).  He has been a frequent nmap-services
  contributor in the last couple months.

o Added --packet_trace support to Windows

o Removed superfluous "addport" line in the XML output (patch from Max
  Schubert (nmap(a)webwizarddesign.com)).

o Merged wintcpip.cc into tcpip.cc to avoid the headache of
  maintaining many nearly-identical functions.

o Fixed an assertion failure crash related to combining port 0 scans
  and OS scan.  Thanks to A.Jones(a)mvv.de for reporting this.

o Fixed some compilation problems on systems without IPv6 support --
  patch sent by Jochen Erwied (Jochen.Erwied(a)mbs-software.info)

o Applied patch from Jochen Erwied (Jochen.Erwied(a)mbs-software.info)
  which fixes the format strings used for printing certain timestamps.

o Upgraded to autoconf 2.57, including the latest config.guess/config.sub

o Renamed configure.ac files to configure.in as recommended by the
  latest autoconf documentation.

o Changed the wording of NmapFE Gnome entries to better-comply with
  Gnome's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).  Suggested by Axel Krauth
  (krauth(a)fmi.uni-passau.de)

Nmap 3.20

o The random IP input option (-iR) now takes an argument specifying
  how many IPs you want to scan (e.g. -iR 1000).  Specify 0 for the old
  neverending scan behavior.

o Fixed a tricky memory leak discovered by Mugz (mugz(a)x-mafia.com).

o Fixed output truncation problem noted by Lionel CONS (lionel.cons(a)cern.ch)

o Fixed a bug that would cause certain incoming ICMP error messages to
  be improperly ignored.

Nmap 3.15BETA3

o Made numerous improvements to the timing behavior of "-T Aggressive"
  (same as -T4) scans.  It is now recommended for regular use by
  impatient people with a fast connection.  "-T Insane" mode has also
  been updated, but we only recommend that for, well, insane people.

o Made substantial changes to the SYN/connect()/Window scanning
  algorithms for improved speeds, especially against heavily filtered
  hosts.  If you notice any timing problems (misidentified ports,
  etc.), please send me the details (including full Nmap output and a
  description of what is wrong).  Reports of any timing problems with
  -T4 would be helpful as well.

o Changed Nmap such that ALL syn scan packets are sent from the port
  you specify with -g.  Retransmissions used to utilize successively
  higher ports.  This change has a downside in that some operating
  systems (such as Linux) often won't reply to the retransmissions
  because they reuse the same connection specifier quad
  (srcip:srcport:dstip:dstport).  Overall I think this is a win.

o Added timestamps to "Starting nmap" line and each host port scan in
  verbose (-v) mode.  These are in ISO 8601 standard format because
  unlike President Bush, we actually care about International 
  consensus :).

o Nmap now comes by default in .tar.bz2 format, which compresses about
  20% further.  You can still find .tgz in the dist directory at
  http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/?M=D .

o Various other minor bugfixes, new services, fingerprints, etc.

Nmap 3.15BETA2

o I added support for a brand new "port" that many of you may have
  never scanned before!  UDP & TCP "port 0" (and IP protocol 0) are now
  permitted if you specify 0 explicitly.  An argument like "-p -40"
  would still scan ports 1-40.  Unlike ports, protocol 0 IS now scanned
  by default.  This now works for ping probes too (e.g., -PS, -PA).

o Applied patch by Martin Kluge (martin(a)elxsi.info) which adds --ttl
  option, which sets the outgoing IPv4 TTL field in packets sent via
  all raw scan types (including ping scans and OS detection).  The
  patch "should work" on Windows, but hasn't been tested.  A TTL of 0
  is supported, and even tends to work on a LAN:
    14:17:19.474293 192.168.0.42.60214 > 192.168.0.40.135: S 326:326(0) [ttl 0]
    14:17:19.474456 192.168.0.40.135 > 192.168.0.42.60214: S 280:280(0) ack 326 (ttl 128)

o Applied patch by Gabriel L. Somlo ( somlo(a)acns.colostate.edu ) which
  extends the multi-ping-port functionality to nonroot and IPv6
  connect() users.

o I added a new --datadir command line option which allows you to
  specify the highest priority directory for Nmap data files
  nmap-services, nmap-os-fingerprints, and nmap-rpc.  Any files which
  aren't in the given dir, will be searched for in the $NMAPDIR
  environmental variable, ~/nmap/, a compiled in data directory
  (e.g. /usr/share/nmap), and finally the current directory.

o Fixed Windows (VC++ 6) compilation, thanks to patches from Kevin
  Davis (computerguy(a)cfl.rr.com) and Andy Lutomirski
  (luto(a)stanford.edu)

o Included new Latvian man page translation by 
  "miscelerious options" (misc(a)inbox.lv)

o Fixed Solaris compilation when Sun make is used rather than GNU
  make.  Thanks to Tom Duffy (tduffy(a)sun.com) for assistance.

o Applied patch from Stephen Bishop (sbishop(a)idsec.co.uk) which
  prevends certain false-positive responses when Nmap raw TCP ping scans
  are being run in parallel.

o To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, I changed all
  instances of "fucked up" in error message text into "b0rked".

o Fixed a problem with nmap-frontend RPMs that would cause a bogus
  /bin/xnmap link to be created (it should only create
  /usr/bin/xnmap).  Thanks to Juho Schultz
  (juho.schultz(a)astro.helsinki.fi) for reporting the problem.

o I made the maximum number of allowed routes and interfaces allowed
  on the scanning machine dynamic rather than hardcoded #defines of 1024
  and 128.  You never know -- some wacko probably has that many :).

Nmap 3.15BETA1

o Integrated the largest OS fingerprint DB updates ever! Thanks to
  everyone who contributed signatures!  New or substantially modified
  fingerprints included the latest Windows 2K/XP changes, Cisco IOS
  12.2-based routers and PIX 6.3 firewalls, FreeBSD 5.0, AIX 5.1,
  OpenBSD 3.2, Tru64 5.1A, IBM OS/400 V5R1M0, dozens of wireless APs,
  VOIP devices, firewalls, printers, print servers, cable modems,
  webcams, etc.  We've even got some mod-chipped Xbox fingerprints
  now!

o Applied NetBSD portability patch by Darren Reed
  (darrenr(a)reed.wattle.id.au)

o Updated Makefile to better-detect if it can't make nmapfe and
  provide a clearer error message.  Also fixed a couple compiler
  warnings on some *BSD platforms.

o Applied patch from "Max" (nmap(a)webwizarddesign.com) which adds the
  port owner to the "addport" XML output lines which are printed (only
  in verbose mode, I think) as each open port is discovered.

o I killed the annoying whitespace that is normally appended after the
  service name.  Now it is only there when an owner was found via -sI
  (in which case there is a fourth column and so "service" must be
  exactly 24 characters).

Nmap 3.10ALPHA9

o Reworked the "ping scan" algorithm (used for any scan except -P0 or
  -sL) to be more robust in the face of low-bandwidth and congested
  connections.  This also improves reliability in the multi-port and
  multi-type ping cases described below.

o "Ping types" are no longer exclusive -- you can now do combinations
  such as "-PS22,53,80 -PT113 -PN -PE" in order to increase your odds of
  passing through strict filters.  The "PB" flag is now deprecated
  since you can achieve the same result via "PE" and "PT" options.

o Applied patch (with modest changes) by Gabriel L. Somlo
  (somlo(a)acns.colostate.edu), which allows multiple TCP probe ports in
  raw (root) mode.  See the previous item for an example.

o Fixed a libpcap compilation issue noted by Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
  (deusxmachina(a)webmail.co.za) which relates to the definition (or
  lack thereof) of ARPHRD_HDLC (used for Cisco HDLC frames).

o Tweaked the version number (-V) output slightly.

Nmap 3.10ALPHA7

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
  (tduffy(a)sun.com).

o Fixed Windows compilation.

o Applied patch by Chad Loder (cloder(a)loder.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 (jupp(a)gmx.de)

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

o Applied patch from Matthieu Verbert (mve(a)zurich.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 (listbox(a)pole-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 (crayden(a)sensewave.com)

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

Nmap 3.10ALPHA4

o Applied patch by Max Schubert (nmap(a)webwizarddesign.com) which adds
  an add-port XML tag whenever a new port is found open when Nmap is
  running in verbose mode.  The new tag looks like:
  [addport state="open" portid="22" protocol="tcp"/]
  I also updated docs/nmap.dtd to recognize this new tag.

o Added German translation of Nmap manpage by Marc Ruef
  (marc.ruef(a)computec.ch).  It is also available at
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage-de.html

o Includes a brand new French translation of the manpage by Sebastien
  Blanchet.  You could probably guess that it is available at
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage-fr.html

o Applied some patches from Chad Loder (cloder(a)loder.us) which update
  the random IP allocation pool and improve OpenBSD support.  Some
  were from the OBSD Nmap patchlist.

o Fixed a compile problem on machines without PF_INET6.  Thanks to
  Josef 'Jupp' Schugt (deusxmachina(a)webmail.co.za) for noting this.

Nmap 3.10ALPHA3

o Added --min_parallelism option, which makes scans more aggressive
  and MUCH faster in certain situations -- especially against
  firewalled hosts.  It is basically the opposite of --max_parallelism
  (-M).  Note that reliability can be lost if you push it too far.

o Added --packet_trace option, which tells Nmap to display all of the
  packets it sends and receives in a format similar to tcpdump.  I
  mostly added this for debugging purposes, but ppl wishing to learn
  how Nmap works or for experts wanting to ensure Nmap is doing
  exactly what they epect.  If you want this feature supported under
  Windows, please send me a patch :).

o Fixed a segmentation fault in Idlescan (-sI).

o Made Idlescan timing more conservative when -P0 is specified to
  improve accuracy.

o Fixed an infinite-loop condition that could occur during certain
  dropped-packet scenarios in an Idle scan.

o Nmap now reports execution times to millisecond precision (rather
  than rouding to the nearest second).

o Fixed an infinite loop caused by invalid port arguments.  Problem
  noted by fejed (fejed(a)uddf.net).

Nmap 3.10ALPHA2

o Fixed compilation and IPv6 support on FreeBSD (tested on
  4.6-STABLE).  Thanks to Niels Heinen (niels.heinen(a)ubizen.com) for
  suggestions.

o Made some portability changes based on suggestions by Josef 'Jupp'
  Schugt (jupp(a)gmx.de)

o Fixed compilation and IPv6 support on Solaris 9 (haven't tested
  earlier versions).

Nmap 3.10ALPHA1

o IPv6 is now supported for TCP scan (-sT), connect()-style ping
  scan (-sP), and list scan (-sL)!  Just specify the -6 option and the
  IPv6 numbers or DNS names.  Netmask notation is not currently
  supported -- I'm not sure how useful it is for IPv6, where even petty
  end users may be allocated trillions of addresses (/80).  If you
  need one of the scan types that hasn't been ported yet, give
  Sebastien Peterson's patch a try at http://nmap6.sourceforge.net/ .
  If there is demand, I may integrate more of that into Nmap.

o Major code restructing, which included conversion to C++ -- so
  you'll need g++ or another C++ compiler.  I accidently let a C++
  requirement slip in a while back and found that almost everyone has
  such a compiler.  Windows (VC++) users: see the README-WIN32 for new
  compilation instructions.

o Applied patch from Axel Nennker (Axel.Nennker(a)t-systems.com) which
  adds a --without-nmapfe option to the configure script.  This si
  useful if your system doesn't have the proper libraries (eg GTK) or
  if you think GUIs are for sissies :).

o Removed arbitrary max_parallelism (-M) limitations, as suggested by
  William McVey ( wam(a)cisco.com ).

o Added DEC OSF to the platforms that require the BSDFIX() macro due
  to taking ip length and offset fields in host rather than network byte
  order.  Suggested by Dean Bennett (deanb(a)gbtn.net)

o Fixed an debug statement C ambiguity discovered by Kronos
  (kronos(a)kronoz.cjb.net)

Nmap 3.00

o Woohoo! :)

Nmap 2.99RC2

o Fixed an important memory initialization bug which was causing
  crashes on Mac OS X (and possibly other platforms).  The problem was
  located by Pieter ten Pierick (P.tenPierick(a)chello.nl)

o Various minor bugfixes/cleanup

Nmap 2.99RC1

o Implemented the biggest OS fingerprint update since December 1999!
  More than 200 fingerprints were added/modified.  This includes
  OpenBSD 3.1, Solaris 9, Mac OS 10.1.5, OS/400, FreeBSD 4.6, The
  latest MS WinXP changes, new CISCO equiptment, and loads of network
  devices such as VoIP phones, switches, printers, WAPs, etc.

o Updated build system to work on MacOS X.

o I removed "credit" lines from the nmap-os-fingerprints file out of
  concern that evil spammers might harvest the 602 addresses.  Plus
  those took up 28K and the size of nmap-os-fingerprints has already
  caused trouble for some handheld devices.  If anyone actually cares
  about the "fame" of being listed, let me know and I'll put you back
  in.  I still appreciate everyone who submits fingerprints!  I just
  don't want you to be spammed when the fingerprint file goes online.

o Minor usage screen (nmap -h) fix suggested by Martin Kluge 
  ( martin(a)elxsi.info )

o Insured that the initial pound (#) in C preprocessor directives is
  always in column 1 (portability fix).  Problem noted by Shamsher
  Sran (ssran(a)bechtel.com)

Nmap 2.54BETA37

o Made SYN scan the default for privileged (root) users.  This offers
  far better performance for Windows users due to their broken
  connect() call, and is usually even preferred on UNIX because it is
  more stealthy and less likely to crash applications listening on the
  target host.

o Fixed a problem noted by Ping Huang (pshuang(a)alum.mit.edu) relating
  to -PI scans of a machine's own non-localhost interfaces (eg
  scanning your ethernet address).

o Applied patch from Patrice Goetghebeur (pgoetghebeur(a)mac.com) which
  fixes PPP/SLIP support on Mac OS X.

o Applied dozens of nmap-services portnumber mapping updates
  researched and sent by palante(a)subterrain.net

o Updated nmap-rpc to the latest version from Eilon Gishri
  (eilon(a)aristo.tau.ac.il)

o Fixed --resume option to better detect all of the previously scanned
  hosts in an -oN file (bug report from Adam.Scott(a)predictive.com )

o Adjusted random IP generator (for -iR) to account for newly
  allocated ip space from
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space as noted by Chad
  Loder (cloder(a)acm.org)

o Updated config.sub and config.guess to the versions in
  automake-1.6.2 .

o Applied patch from Markus A. Nonym (g17m0(a)lycos.com) which checks
  for a recent version of GTK+ in ./configure before even trying to
  build NmapFE (avoids the previous ugly compiler errors).

o Applied patch from benkj(a)gmx.it which fixes misbehavior when Nmap
  would receive EOF (including ^D) in interactive mode.

o Fixed format string bugs (not the security-related kind) found by
  Takehiro YONEKURA (yonekura(a)obliguard.com) and Kuk-hyeon Lee 
  (errai(a)inzen.com)

o Applied patch from Greg Steuck (greg-nmap-dev(a)nest.cx) which fixes
  an alignment problem in charpool.c that could cause bus errors on
  64-bit platforms.

o Applied portability fix patch from Matt Christian (mattc(a)visi.com)

Nmap 2.54BETA36

o Fixed major connect scan problem introduced in BETA35

o Changed NmapFE to use the version number 2.54BETA36 rather than
  0.2.54BETA36.  I had to do this because RedHat took the liberty of
  releasing a so-called "2.54BETA31" version of nmap-frontend in their
  7.3 distribution.  Thus my upgrades were failing to install on such
  systems because a "later" version is already installed.

Nmap 2.54BETA35

o Fixed an issue that could cause the abort message "Serious time
  computation problem in adjust_timeout ...".  If you still see this,
  please let me know.

o Fixed Windows compilation (and I really mean it this time -- tested
  myself).

o Applied configure script patch to recognize Solaris 2.10 when it
  eventually becomes available (from James Carlson
  (james.d.carlson(a)east.sun.com)

o Applied some portability fixes from Albert Chin
  (china(a)thewrittenword.com)

o Applied libpcap aclocal.m4 patch to enable debugging (-g) when
  compiling libpcap with gcc.  Patch from Ping Huang
  (pshuang(a)alum.mit.edu)

o Restructured "TCP probe port" output message a bit as suggested by
  Ping Huang (pshuang(a)alum.mit.edu)

Nmap 2.54BETA34

o Windows compilation fixed thanks to new VC++ project file (nmap.dsp) sent
  by Evan Sparks (gmplague(a)sdf.lonestar.org) (I had forgotten to include 
  the new main.c).

o Various nmap-services updates

o Fixed a bunch of typos and capitalization issues in
  nmap-os-fingerprints by applying patch sent in by Royce Williams
  (royce(a)alaska.net).

Nmap 2.54BETA33

o Tons of OS fingerprint updates.  More than 100 fingerprints added or
  changed, including OpenBSD 3, FreeBSD 4.5, Solaris 9 pre-release,
  Commodor 64 (with the TFE Ethernet Card and uIP stack), Compaq iPAQ,
  Cisco IOS 12.2(8), AIX 5.1, IRIX 6.5.15, various
  Redback/Racal/Juniper/BigIP/HP/Siemens/Brocade/Quantum devices,
  numerous printers/switches, KRONOS network clock, WTI Network Power
  Switch, Windows XP, and many more.  Thanks to everyone who
  contributed!

o Applied fix for an important RPC scanning bug sent in by Pasi Eronen
  (pasi.eronen(a)nixu.com)

o Applied fix for nasty OS fingerprinting bug found by William
  Robertson (wkr(a)cs.ucsb.edu)

o Do not show uptime when obviously spoofed (eg OpenBSD 3.0)

o Slightly changed (I hope improved) the whitespace in Nmap output so
  that messages relating to the same host are kept together (and
  different hosts different separated by newlines).

o Moved main() function into a new file, cleverly named main.c.

Nmap 2.54BETA32

o Applied Windows pinging fix and from Andy Lutomirski
  (Luto(a)myrealbox.com)

o Applied a few more Windows fixes from Andy.

o Fixed a flaw in several error-checking statements noted by Giacomo
  Cariello (jwk(a)bug.it)

o Applied Win32 compilation fixes sent by Kirby Kuehl (kkuehl(a)cisco.com)
  and jens.vogt(a)bluewin.ch

Nmap 2.54BETA31

o Added ICMP Timestamp and Netmask ping types (-PP and -PM).  These
  (especially timestamp) can be useful against some hosts that do not
  respond to normal ping (-PI) packets.

o Documented the --data_length option and made it work with all the
  ICMP ping types (echo request, netmask, and timestamp).

o Added check for strings.h before including it in portlist.c .  This
  fixes a compilation problem on some versions of Windows.  Problem
  first noted by Michael Vorin (mvorin(a)hotmail.com)

o Applied patch from Andy Lutomirski (Luto(a)myrealbox.com) which fixes
  a crash on some Windows platforms when timeouts occur.

o Fixed "grepable output" (-oG) so that it prints IPID sequence class
  rather than printing the TCP ISN sequence index twice.  Problem
  noted by Russell Fulton (r.fulton(a)auckland.ac.nz)

o Added mysterious, undocumented --scanflags option.

o Applied patch from Andy Lutomirski (Luto(a)myrealbox.com) which fixes
  some important Windows bugs.  Apparently this can cause a dramatic
  speedup in some circumstances.  The patch had other misc. changes
  too.

o Fix bug noted by Chris V (iselldrugstokidsonline(a)yahoo.com) in which
  Nmap could segmentation fault with the (bogus) command: './nmap -sO
  -p 1-65535 hostname' (protocol only can go up to 255).  That being
  said, Nmap should never segfault just because of bogus options.

o Fixed problem noted by Maximiliano (emax25(a)arnet.com.ar) where Nmap
  would get stuck in a (nearly) infinite loop when you try to "resume"
  a random host (-iR) scan.

o Included a number of fingerprint updates, but I still have many more
  web submissions to go through.  Also made some nmap-services
  portlist updates.

o Included a bunch of fixes (mostly to prevent compiler warnings) from
  William McVey (wam(a)cisco.com)

Nmap 2.54BETA30

o Added a Document Type Definition (DTD) for the Nmap XML output
  format (-oX) to the docs directory.  This allows validating parsers
  to check nmap XML output files for correctness.  It is also useful
  for application programmers to understand the XML output structure.
  The DTD was written by William McVey (wam(a)cisco.com) of Cisco Secure 
  Consulting Services ( http://www.cisco.com/go/securityconsulting ).

o Merged in a number of Windows fixes/updates from Andy Lutomirski
  (Luto(a)myrealbox.com)

o Merged in fixes/updates (mostly to the Windows functionality) from
  Matt Hargett (matt(a)use.net)

o Applied patch by Colin Phipps (cph(a)netcraft.com) which correctly
  encodes special characters in the XML output.

o Applied patch by William McVey (wam(a)cisco.com) which adds the uptime
  information printed with -O to the XML output format.

o Fixed byte-order bug in Windows packet matching code which caused
  -PS and -PT to fail.  Bug found and patch sent by Tim Adam
  (tma(a)osa.com.au)

o Fixed segfault problem with "-sU -F".  Nobody reported this until I
  noticed it :(.  Anytime you see "Segmentation Fault" in the latest
  version of Nmap, it is probably a bug -- please mail me the command
  you used, the OS/platform you are running on, and whether it is
  reproducable.

o Added a convenience option "-oA (basefilename)".  This tells Nmap to
  log in ALL the major formats (normal, grepable, and XML).  You give
  a base for the filename, and the output files will be base.nmap,
  base.gnmap, and base.xml.

o Documented the --append_output option which tells Nmap to append
  scan results to any output files you have specified rather than
  overwriting the files.

o Integrate TIMEVAL_SEC_SUBTRACT() fix by Scott Renfro (scott(a)renfro.org)
  which improves timing accuracy.

Nmap 2.54BETA29

o Integrated William McVey's multi-portlist patch.  This allows you to
  specify different port numbers when scanning both TCP & UDP.  For
  example, if you want to UDP for 53,111 and 137 while TCP scanning
  for 21-25,80,139,515,6000,8080 you could do: nmap -sSU -p
  U:53,111,137,T:21-25,80,139,515,6000,8080 target.com .  Prior to
  this patch, you had to either use different Nmap executions or scan
  both UDP & TCP of each port.  See the man page for more usage info.

o Added/updated a bunch of fingerprints, including Windows XP release
  candidates #1 & #2, OpenBSD 2.9, various home gateways/cable modem,
  MacOS X 10.0.4, Linux 2.4.7, Guantlet Firewall 4.0a, a few Cisco
  routers, and, most importantly, the Alcatel Advanced Reflexes IP
  Phone :).  Many other fingerprints were updated as well.

o Found and fixed some relatively major memory leaks based on reports
  sent in by H D Moore (hdm(a)secureaustin.com), mugz
  (mugz(a)x-mafia.org), and Steven Van Acker (deepstar(a)ulyssis.org)

o Applied patch from Chad Loder (chad_loder(a)rapid7.com) which improves
  random target host selection (-iR) by excluding more undesirable
  addresses.

o Fixed portscan timing bug found by H D Moore (hdm(a)secureaustin.com).
  This bug can occur when you specify a --max_rtt_timeout but not
  --initial_rtt_timeout and then scan certain firewalled hosts.

o Fixed port number printing bug found by "Stephen Leavitt"
  (stephen_j_leavitt(a)hotmail.com)

o The Nmap source tarball now extracts with more lenient permissions
  (sometimes world-readable or world-executable, but never
  world-writable).  If you don't want this, set your umask to 077
  (which is what I do).  Suggested by Line Printer (lps(a)rahul.net)

Nmap 2.54BETA28

o I hope that I have fixed the Libpcap "Unknown datalink type" problem that
  many people reported.  If you still receive this error, please send
  me the following info:
  1) Full output of Nmap including the command you typed
  2) What OS/OS version you are using
  3) What type of interface is the scan going through (PPP, ISDN, ethernet,
     PPPoE, etc)
  4) Whether you compiled from source or used the RPM version

o Hopefully fixed Libpcap lex/yacc generated file problem that
  plagued a few folks.

o Various minor fixes/changes/updates

Nmap 2.54BETA27

o Fixed bug that caused "adding open port" messages to be printed even
  when verbose mode was not specified. (patch sent by Doug Hoyte (
  dugely(a)yahoo.com ).

o Fixed bug in zombie:port option parsing in Idlescan as well a few
  other bugs in patch sent by Germano Caronni (gec(a)acm.org)

o Fixed Windows compilation (I broke it when I added Idlescan).

o Fixed a (Win32 only) port identification bug which would cause some
  ports to be listed as "unknown" even when Nmap should know their
  name.  This was found at patched by David Griffiths
  (davidg(a)intrinsica.co.uk).

o Fixed more nmap-os-fingerprints syntax/grammar violations found by
  Raymond Mercier of VIGILANTe

o Fixed a memory leak in Nbase str*casecmp() functions by applying
  patch sent by Matt (matt(a)use.net).  I plan to kill this whole
  strcasecmp.c file as soon as possible (it is a mess).

Nmap 2.54BETA26

o Added Idlescan (IPID blind scan).  The usage syntax is 
  "-sI [zombie]".

o Fixed a bunch of fingerprints that were corrupt due to violations of
  the fingerprint syntax/grammar (problems were found by Raymond
  Mercier of VIGILANTe )

o Fixed command-line option parsing bug found 
  by "m r rao" (mrrao(a)del3.vsnl.net.in )

o Fixed an OS fingerprinting bug that caused many extra packets to be
  sent if you request a lot of decoys.

o Added some debug code to help diagnose the "Unknown datalink type"
  error.  If Nmap is giving you this error, please send the following
  info to fyodor@insecure.org : 1) The full output from Nmap
  (including the command arguments) 2) What OS and OS version are you
  using 3) What type of adaptor are you using (modem, ethernet, FDDI,
  etc)

o Added a bunch of IDS sensor/console/agent port numbers from
  Patrick Mueller (pmueller(a)neohapsis.com)

Nmap 2.54BETA25

o Added a whole bunch of new OS fingerprints (and adjustments) ranging
  from big important ones (Linux 2.4.X, OpenBSD 2.9, FreeBSD 4.3,
  Cisco 12.2.1, MacOS X, etc) to some that are more obscure ( such as
  Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and VirtualAccess LinxpeedPro 120 )

o Upgraded Libpcap to the latest version (0.6.2) from tcpdump.org.  I
  modified the build system slightly by shipping pre-generated
  scanner.c/grammer.c (instead of using lex/yacc) and I also upgraded
  to the newest config.sub/config.guess .

o Fixed some issues with the new Libpcap under Linux (patches will be
  sent to the developers).

o Added "All zeros" IP.ID sequence classification to account for the
  new Linux 2.4 scheme which seems to use 0 whenever the DF bit is set
  (probably a good idea).

o Tweaked TCP Timestamp and IP.ID sequence classification algorithms

Nmap 2.54BETA24

o Fixed compilation problems on MacOS X publis release.  Thanks to
  Nicolas Dawson (nizcolas(a)myrealbox.com) for securing an account for
  me.

o On the suggestion of the ever-helpful LaMont Jones (lamont(a)hp.com),
  I obtained the newest config.guess/config.sub from
  http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config and made
  libpcap/nbase use symlinks rather than copeis of the file

o Applied patch from LaMont Jones (lamont(a)hp.com) which makes Nmap
  compatable with gcc 3.0 (apparently printf() is a macro in that
  version)

o Applied patch from Colin Phipps (cph(a)netcraft.com) which fixes a
  problem that kept UDP RPC scanning from working unless you were also
  doing a TCP scan.

o Applied a patch from Chris Eagle (cseagle(a)redshift.com) which fixes
  Windows compilation (I broke it with a recent change).

o Updated Lithuanian translation of man page based on a newer version sent 
  by Aurimas Mikalauskas (inner(a)crazy.lt)

o Killed carriage returns in nmap.c and nmapfe.c, which caused
  problems for some (SGI) compilers.  Problem noted by Artur
  Niederstebruch (artur(a)sgi.com)

o Updated to latest version of rpc program number list, maintained by
  Eilon Gishri (eilon(a)aristo.tau.ac.il)

o Fixed a quoting bug in the Nmap man page found by 
  Rasmus Andersson (rasmus(a)pole-position.org)

o Applied RPM spec file changes from "Benjamin Reed"
  (ranger(a)befunk.com) which allows you to avoid building the frontend
  by adding "--define frontend 0" to the build command (eg --rebuild,
  --ba, etc).

Nmap 2.54BETA22

o Eliminated usage of u_int32_t (was causing compilation errors on
  some Sun and HP boxes).  Problem first noted by Nick Munger
  (nmunger(a)Oswego.EDU) and Ralf Hildebrandt
  (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)innominate.com) and Antonin Sprinzl
  (Antonin.Sprinzl(a)tuwien.ac.at)

o Defined integer-width typedefs such as u32/s32/u16/etc. in Nbase.
  Went through much of the Nmap code and substituted these in where
  correct lengths are important (port numbers, IP addresses, etc).

Nmap 2.54BETA21

o Cleaned up a few build/distribution issues that were reported by
  LaMont Jones (lamont(a)hp.com)

o Fixed compiler warning noted by Gabor Z. Papp (gzp(a)papp.hu) )

Nmap 2.54BETA20 

o Added TCP Timestamp sequence checking for OS detection and
  Netcraft-style uptime tests.

o Found and fixed (I hope) byte alignment problem which was causing
  bus errors on SPARC64 ( reported by H D Moore
  (hdm(a)secureaustin.com) and Matthew Franz (mfranz(a)cisco.com) )

o Apple Darwin (Mac OS X) 1.2 portability patch from Rob Braun
  (bbraun(a)synack.net)

o Added IPID sequence number predictability report (also now used in
  OS detection).

o Show actual IPID, TCP ISN, and TCP timestamp values in XML format
  output rather than just the cooked results.

o Suppress IPID and TCP ISN predictability report unless you use -v
  (you need -O as well).

o Applied Solaris 8 compilation fixes from Germano Caronni (
  gec(a)acm.org )

o Applied configure.in variable name typo fixes from Christian
  Weisgerber (naddy(a)openbsd.org)

o Applied some more changes from Andy Lutomirski
  (Luto(a)mailandnews.com) which provides better detection and
  reporting from some heinous errors.

o Added -n and -R (always/never DNS resolve) options to the man page.

Nmap 2.54BETA19

o I ported NmapFE to Windows so that Win32 users can use the graphical
  interface.  It generally works, although I haven't tested much.
  Patches welcome!

o Various little fixes and cleanups, especially to the Windows port.

o Applied patch from Andy Lutomirski (Luto(a)mailandnews.com) which
  enhances some of the Win* error messages and adds the --win_trace
  debugging option.

o Applied some patches from Jay Freeman (saurik(a)saurik.com)
  o New --data_length option adds indicated number of random data
    bytes to send with scan packet and tcp ping packet (does not
    currently work with ICMP ping packet).  Does not affect OS
    detection, RPC, or connect() scan packets.
    o Windows portability fixes
    o Various other little fixes.

o Renamed rpc.h and error.h because they conflict with Windows include
  files.  By the way, this was a pain to figure out because VC++ is
  such a crappy compiler!  It basically just says problem in
  "foobar.h" without giving you any idea how foobar.h got included!
  gcc gives you a nice message tracing the chain of include files!

Nmap 2.54BETA16

o Upgraded to latest version of Winpcap ( 2.1-beta )

o Merged in Windows port code from Ryan Permeh ( ryan(a)eeye.com) and
  Andy Lutomirski ( Luto(a)mailandnews.com ).

o Took out C++ compiler test from nbase configure script.  It was
  inserted accidently, but I found it interesting that only 2 people
  complained about this causing them problems.  I guess most everyone
  already has C++ compilers.

o Applied patch from Steve Bleazard (steve(a)bleazard.com) which fixed
  bug in internal Smoothed Round Trim Time calculations.

o Fixed CFLAGS computation error in configure.  Problem discovered and
  patched by Fredrik Lundholm (exce7(a)ce.chalmers.se)

o Added more debugging code for "Unknown datalink type" error -- if
  you get this, please send me the full error msg including hex
  values.

o Added Portuguese man page translations from Antonio Pires de Castro
  Junior (apcastro(a)ic.unicamp.br).

o Capitalized all references to God in error messages.

Nmap 2.54BETA7

o Applied patch from Hubert Feyrer
  (hubert.feyrer(a)informatik.fh-regensburg.de) which adds support for
  the new NetBSD DLT_PPP_* types.

o Updated to Eilon Gishri's (eilon(a)aristo.tau.ac.il) newest version
  of nmap-rpc at ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/users/eilon/rpc/rpc

o Moved a bunch of the scanning engine related functions to new files
  (scan_engine.c and scan_engine.h ).  Timing functions were moved to
  the new timing.c/timing.h .  Other stuff was shifted to
  tcpip.c/tcpip.h.  At some point, nmap.c will only contain the Nmap
  command line UI.

o Updated Russian version of man page from Alex Volkov (topcat(a)nm.ru)

Nmap 2.54BETA6

o Added XML output (-oX).  Hopefully this will help those of you
  writing Nmap front ends and other tools that utilize Nmap.  The
  "machine-readable" output has been renamed "grepable" (-oG) to
  emphasize that XML is now the preferred machine-readable output
  format.  But don't worry if your tool uses -oM , that format (and
  the deprecated -oM flag) won't go away any time soon (if ever).

o Applied patch from Stefan Rapp (s.rapp(a)hrz.uni-dortmund.de) which
  fixes a variable argument integer promotion problem in the new
  snprintf compatability file.  This is important for Redhat 7
  systems.

o Reorganized output-related routines so that they now reside in
  output.c & output.h.  Let me know if I accidently screwed up the
  behavior of any scan types in the process.

Nmap 2.54BETA5

o Revamped the 'compatability libraries' subsystem.  Moved all of that
  to a new library called 'libnbase' and changed Nmap and NmapFE to
  use that.  I included a better version of *snprintf and some other
  compatability files.  Obviously I cannot test these changes on every
  whacked OS that needs this compatability cruft, so please let me
  know if you run into compilation problems.

o Fixed a problem found by Martyn Tovey (martyn(a)netcraft.com) when
  using Nmap on platforms that dislike division by zero.

o Removed 128.210.*.* addresses from Nmap man page due to complaints
  from Purdue security staff.

o Fixed FreeBSD (some versions) compilation problem found by Martyn
  Tovey (martyn(a)netcraft.com)

Nmap 2.54BETA4

o Upgraded to the very latest Libpcap version ( the 9/3/00 CVS
  snapshot ).  This version is from the tcpdump.org group rather than
  the Lawrence Livermore crew.  The most important advantage is Linux
  Socket Filter support (so you won't have that annoying syslog
  message about Nmap using the obsolete SOCK_PACKET interface).

o I tried to install Nmap on yet another machine without lex/yacc or
  flex/bison.  That was the last straw!  I am now shipping the
  generated C files, which eliminates the lex/yacc requirement.

o Applied patch by Jay Freeman (saurik) (saurik(a)saurik.com) to make
  Nmap C++-clean (this was lot of tedious work!  Thanks!).  Note that
  Nmap still uses a normal C compiler by default, but Nmap derivatives
  may appreciate C++ compatability.  Note that this only applies to
  "Nmap proper", not libpcap.

o Added a HACKING file for people who want to help with Nmap
  development.  It describes preferred patch formats, development
  resources, and offers a number of useful changes that would likely
  be accepted into the main tree.

o Fixed a configure.in error found by Vacuum
  (vacuum(a)technotronic.com) which could cause compilation errors.

o Fingerprint file adjustments for better Win* detection

o Ensure libpcap is not configured and/or installed if you already
  have a "new enough" version (0.4a6+) installed.

o Included Italian translation of Nmap man page from Giorgio Zoppi
  (deneb(a)supereva.it) .

o Fixed a SYN scan problem that could cause a major slowdown on some
  busy networks.

o Fixed a crash problem in NmapFE reported by sverre ( sverre(a)gmx.net )

o Added an "SInfo" line to most printed fingerprints.  It looks
  similar to this:
  SInfo(V=2.54BETA4%P=i686-pc-linux-gnu%D=9/4%Time=9681031%O=7%C=1)
  and contains information useful when fingerprints are reported (Nmap
  version/platform, scan date, and open/closed ports used)

o Fixed RPCGrind (-sR) scan.  It has been almost completely broken
  since 2.54BETA2 (which has been out for two weeks) and nobody
  reported it!  I noticed the problem myself during testing of
  something else.  I am disappointed that nobody bothered to even let
  me know that this was broken.  Does anyone even use RPC Scan?

o Various other small fixes/improvements

Nmap 2.54BETA3

o Went through and added/adjusted a bunch of fingerprints.  A lot of
  people submitted Windows Millenium Edition (WinME) beta
  fingerprints, but nobody submitted IPs for them.  So please let me
  know if this version detects your WinME boxes.

o Applied NmapFE patch from Michael Fischer v. Mollard (mfvm(a)gmx.de)
  which made did the following:
  o Added delete event so that NmapFE always quits when you kill it
    with your window manager
  o added the menubar to the vbox instead to the fixed widget

o Various small fixes/improvements

Nmap 2.54BETA2

o Added a shortcut which can make single port SYN scans of a network
  much faster.  For example, if a new sendmail vulnerability is found,
  this reduces the time it takes to scan your whole network for port
  25.  This shortcut takes effect when you do "-PS[port] -sS
  -p[port]".  For example 'nmap -n -sS -p25 -PS25 24.0.0.0/8".  This
  optimization doubled the scan speed in a 30,000 IP test I performed.

o Added -sL (List scan).  Just as ping scan (-sP) allows you to short
  circuit the scan right after pinging, -sL allows you to short
  circuit the scan right after target selection.  This allows you to
  see what hosts WOULD be scanned without actually doing it.  The
  hosts will be resolved unles you use -n.  Primary uses:
  1) Get all the IPs in a network (like A.B.C.D/16) and take out
     machines that are too fragile to be scanned safely before
     calling Nmap with the new list (using -iL).
  2) Test that a complex spec like 128.4,5,7-9.*.7 does what you
     expect before actual scanning.
  3) When all you want to do is resolve a bunch of IPs.
  4) You just want results of a zone transfer (if it is implemented).

o Added some new fingerprints and adjusted some others based on
  submissions to the DB (I still have a lot more to go through so
  don't worry if your submission is still not detected).

o Added a warning when you scan 0 hosts (eg "nmap -v").  There are
  various other output tweaks as well.

o Ensured that 0.0.0.0 can be scanned by nmap (although on some OSs,
  like Linux, it won't work due to what seem to be kernel bugs).  Oh
  well.  I'll look into it later.

Nmap 2.54BETA1

o Added an extremely cool scan type by Gerhard Rieger ( rieger at
  iue.tuwien.ac.at ) -- IP Protocol scanning.  Basically it sends a
  bunch of IP headers (no data) with different "protocol" fields to
  the host.  The host then (usually) sends back a protocol unreachable
  for those that it does not support.  By exclusion, nmap can make a
  list of those that are supported.  This is similar in concept to
  (and is implemented using most of the same scanning routines as) UDP
  scanning.  Note that some hosts do not send back protocol
  unreachables -- in that case all protocols will appear "open".

o Fixed an uninitialized variable problem in NmapFE (found by Alvin
  Starr (alvin at iplink.net )

o Fixed a packaging problem that lead to the Nmap man page being
  included twice in the .tgz .

o Fixed dangling nroff include in xnmap man page (noted by Debian Nmap
  package maintainer LaMont Jones (lamont(a)security.hp.com)

o Give a warning when no targets at all are specified

o Updated 'make uninstall' so that it deletes all relevant files

o Included latest nmap-rpc from Eilon Gishri (eilon at aristo.tau.ac.il)

o Eliminated -I. from Nmap's and NmapFE's makefiles (suggested by "Jay
  Freeman (saurik)" (saurik at saurik.com)

o Added Russian documentation by Alex Volkov

o Added Lithuanian documentation from Aurimas Mikalauskas (inner(a)dammit.lt) 

Nmap 2.53

o Fixed a commenting issue that could cause trouble for non-GNU
  compilers (first found by Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode at
  parallab.uib.no))

o A few new services to nmap-services

Nmap 2.52

o Added very simple man pages for xnmap/nmapfe (lack of man pages for
  these was noticed by LaMont Jones (lamont(a)hp.com), the Debian Nmap
  package maintainer, based on bug report by Adrian Bunk
  (bunk(a)fs.tum.de ).

o Fixed a "Status: Down" machine name output problem in machine
  parseable logs found by Alek O. Komarnitsky (alek(a)ast.lmco.com)

o Took some wierd files out of the doc directory (cd, grep , vi, and
  .swp)

o Fixed some typos found by Thomas Klausner (wiz(a)danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at)

o Updated nmap-rpc with new entries found in the latest version of
  Eilon Gishri's rpc list.

Nmap 2.51

o Fixed target parsing bug found by Steve Horsburgh (shorsburgh(a)horsburgh.com).

o Changed makefile/rpm to store fingerprint, rpc, and services file in
  $prefix/share/nmap rather than $prefix/lib/nmap , since these files
  are architecture independent.  You should now use ./configure
  --datadir instead of ./configure --libdir to change the default
  location.  Suggested by Thomas Klausner
  (wiz(a)danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at).

o I am now including Eilon Gishri's (eilon(a)aristo.tau.ac.il) rpc
  number list (which he recently merged with the Nmap 2.50 rpc list).

o Included Spanish and French HTML versions of the Nmap man page (may
  not always be up to date).

Nmap 2.50

o Fixed an IP calculation error which could occur in some cases where
  you scan machines on different devices (like lo and eth0).  This
  problem was discoved by Jonathan Fine (jfine(a)psu.edu).

o Fixed a problem that could, in rare cases, cause a SYN scan scan to
  crash (the error message was "attempt to add port number X with
  illegal state 0").  This problem was reported by Erik Benner
  (erik(a)xyzzy.net)

o Changed the .spec file so that RPM versions create a xnmap link to
  nmapfe ( the normal make install has done this for a long time ).

Nmap 2.3BETA21

o A number of people reported problems with nmapfe in various
  environments (specifically gdk errors, hangs, and crashes).  I think
  that is now fixed.  Let me know if you still have the problem (make
  sure the title bar says BETA21).

o Added a bunch of OS fingerprints based on all the contributions in
  the last month or so.

o Fixed a bug that completely broke RPC scanning in BETA19.

o Added list of ports scanned near the top of each machine log WHEN
  -v was specified.  Here is an example of the format:
  # Ports scanned: TCP(13;1-10,22,25) UDP(0;)
  The "13" above is the number of TCP ports being scanned.

o Got rid of a snprintf() from nmapfe sine some systems don't have it
  :( and I'm to lazy to integrate in the snprintf that comes with nmap
  right now.

o Fixed important target IP range parsing bug found by Jean-Yves Simon
  ( lethalwp(a)linuxbe.org ).

o Applied patch by albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com) which
  adds --with-libpcap[=DIR] option to configure and and adds an
  elegant approach for -lnsl and -lsocket checking to configure .

o Fixed a bug which could cause Nmap to mark a port filtered based on
  ICMP dest. unreachable packets relating to a different host than the
  one being scanned.

o Fixed output problem relating to ident scan noted by Peter Marschall
  ( peter.marschall at mayn.de )

o Applied patch to services.c by Andrew Brown (atatat(a)atatdot.net)
  which prevents some useless debugging (-d) output when reading some
  kindss of /etc/services files.

o Added "Host: [machinename] (ip) Status: Down" to machine logs when
  the verbose option is given (just like down hosts are reported to
  stdout when verbose is given).  Suggested by Alek Komarnitsky.

o Applied NetBSD compatability patch provided by Mipam (reinoud at
  ibbnet.org) which changes an autoconf macro to check for
  getopt_long_only instead of getopt_long.

o Nmap used to print an inaccuracy warning when no open TCP ports were
  found on the target machine.  Due to a bug, this was not always
  being printed.  Problem found by Matt (matt at use.net) and Ajay
  Gupta2 (Ajay.Gupta2 at ey.com).

o Added the number of ports in the ignored state right after the state
  name in machine parseable logs.  It used to looke like: "Ignored
  State: closed" whereas now it looks like: "Ignored State: closed
  (1508)" Meaning that 1508 ports were closed and thus are not
  specifically enumerated.

o Changed all nmapfe calls to gdk_font_load into gdk_fontset_load .
  Bennett Feitell (bfeitell at panix.com) suggested that this fixed
  some nmapfe font problems.

Nmap 2.3BETA20

o Applied patch sent in by s.rapp(a)hrz.uni-dortmund.de which fixes a
  memory alignment bug in osscan.c which could cause core dumps on
  machines which require aligned access (like SPARC).

o Fixed a compilation problem on machines that do not have MAP_FAILED
  defined (as a return value to mmap).  Problem noted by Phil
  Stracchino (alaric(a)babcom.com).

Nmap 2.3BETA19

o Tweaked the output so that it now tells how many ports are not shown
  and what state the ignored ports are in.  This info could be
  inferred before by people who had studied the manpage, but now the
  info is explicitly available.  I cleaned up a bunch of stuff
  internally to make this happen.  I hope I didn't break anything!

o Changed NmapFE so that it always kills any running Nmap process when
  you press exit. Problem noted by Marc Renner
  (mrenner(a)ci.marysville.wa.us)

o Apparently some Linux (glibc) systems now come with a "strcasestr"
  function.  So I have made autoconf look for this and use the native
  version if supported. (problem noted by Sami Farin
  (sfarin(a)ratol.fi)).

o Added a new attribute "Ignored State: xxx" to the machine parseable
  logs, where xxx is the state (closed, filtered, or UNfiltered) that
  is being ignored.  Ports in that state are not listed (they weren't
  listed in earlier versions either).  Perhaps I should list ALL ports
  for machine parseable output.  Opinions?

o Merged in a patch sent in by Mipam (reinoud(a)ibbnet.org) which is
  apparently part of the OpenBSD Nmap "port".  Although Nmap seems to
  work fine for me on my OpenBSD 2.4 box, a couple OpenBSD users have
  complained of problems.  Hopefully this will help. (it adds DLT_LOOP
  and DLT_ENC offset cases when reading from libpcap).

o A few really minor bugfixes.

Nmap 2.3BETA18

o Fixed a very important bug that occurred when SYN scanning
  localhost.  Many thanks to Dries Schellekens (
  gwyllion(a)ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ) for first reporting
  the problem.

o Uros Prestor from TurboLinux informed us that the latest versions of
  Nmap work with Linux on the upcoming Intel Merced/Itanium IA-64
  processors.  He also said that the TurboLinux distribution includes
  Nmap.  Kudos to them!  As well as the other distros that support
  Nmap (Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Trinux) and of course FreeBSD, NetBSD,
  & OpenBSD.  Does anyone know if Nmap ships with the latest from
  Mandrake or Corel?  The latest Solaris includes some Free software.
  If anyone can get them to ship Nmap, I will buy you a case of beer
  :).

o Added a #define to change vsnprintf to vsprintf on machines which do
  not support the former (mostly Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier).  This
  function is less safe.  For people who care about security, we
  recommend an upgrade to Solaris 8 (or Linux/*BSD).

o Changed the NmapFE version to 0.[nmap_version] rather than always
  leaving it at 0.9.5 (which was confusing).  Thanks to J.D.K. Chipps
  (jdkc(a)woptura.com) for noticing this.

o Added support for "-vv" (means the same as "-v -v").  Older versions
  of Nmap supported it (noted by George Kurtz).

Nmap 2.3BETA17

o Added ACK scanning.  This scan technique (which van Houser and
  others have been bugging me to add for years :), is great for
  testing firewall rulesets.  It can NOT find open ports, but it can
  distinguish between filtered/unfilterd by sending an ACK packet to
  each port and waiting for a RST to come back.  Filtered ports will
  not send back a RST (or will send ICMP unreachables).  This scan
  type is activated with -sA .

o Documented the Window scan (-sW) which Lamont Granquist added in
  September 99.

o Added a whole bunch of OS fingerprints that people have submitted.

o "Protocol" field in output eliminated.  It is now printed right next
  to the number (/etc/services style).  Like "22/tcp".  I wonder what
  I should put in the extra white space this leaves on the report :).

o Added --resume option to continue a large network scan where you
  left off.  This is useful for recovering from errors (modem drops
  carrier, network outage, etc).  It also allows you to start and stop
  for policy reasons (like if a client only wants you to scan on
  weekends or at night) or if you want to run the scan on a different
  host.  Usage is 'nmap --resume logfile' where logfile can be either
  normal (-oN) or machine parseable (-oM) logfile from the scan that
  was aborted.  No other options can be given (the options in the
  logfile from the original scan will be used).  Nmap will start off
  with the host after the last one successfully scanned in the log
  file.

o Added --append_output option which causes -oN/-oM/-oS to APPEND to
  the output file you specify rather than overwriting it.

o Various internal code cleanup, makefile fixes, etc.

o Changed version number from 2.3BETA* to 2.30BETA* to appease various
  packaging systems that thought 2.3BETA was < 2.12 .

o Nmap output to files now correctly flushes output after scanning for
  each host is finished.

o Fixed compiler -L flags error found by Ralf Hildebrandt
  (R.Hildebrandt(a)tu-bs.de)

o Fixed configure scripts so that options you give to the Nmap
  configure (like --prefix ) are also passed to the nmapfe configure
  script.  This problem was noted by Ralf Hildebrandt
  (R.Hildebrandt(a)tu-bs.de).  While I was at it, I added some other
  cleanups to the system.

o Added --noninteractive option for when nmap is called from scripts
  (where stuff like prompting users for info is unacceptable).  It
  does not currently do anything (Nmap never prompts) and script
  writers should probably wait until at least May '2000 so their
  scripts still work with earlier versions of Nmap.

o Updated to the latest config.guess and config.sub from Autoconf 2.13

o Applied patch by Sven (s.carstens(a)gmx.de> which fixes a
  segmentation fault problem in Nmapfe colored mode as well as some
  output niceties.

o Changed some C++ comments to C-style for portability (noticed by
  "Sergei V. Rousakov" (sergei(a)cas.Vanderbilt.Edu) )

Nmap 2.3BETA14

o Peter Kosinar (goober(a)gjh.sk) performed some cleanup of the output
  routines and as a bonus he added skript kiddie output mode!!!  Try
  it out by adding "-oS - " to your nmap command line.  Note that
  using '-' to represent stdout instead of a filename is something you
  can do with any of the output modes.

o Ensured that Nmap always gives up on ident scan after the first port
  attempt finds it to be closed (problem noticed by Matt
  (matt(a)use.net))

o Changed strsep's in nmapfe to more portable strtok's (should
  especially help Nmapfe compiles on Solaris)

o Changed permutation algorithm to make port order and host order
  shuffling more random.

o Various minor changes and internal code cleanup.

o Fixed integer overflow that was limiting the max --host_timeout
  value to about 2,000,000 milliseconds (~1/2 hour).  The limit is now
  about 4,000,000,000 milliseconds (~1 month).  I really hope you
  don't need more than that :).

Nmap 2.3BETA13

o I made Nmap smarter about detecting filtering during UDP, Xmas,
  NULL, and FIN scans.

o Updated Nmapfe to 0.9.5 (+ a patch from NmapFE author Zach Smith)

o Fixed a problem where NmapFE would fail to honor $PATH (Noticed by
  K. Scott Rowe (kscott(a)nmt.edu)

o Added a couple ICMP unreachable messages Nmap was missing (found by
  Bifrost (bifrost(a)minions.com)).

o Internal cleanup that improves the way some port lists are stored.

o Added some more RPC numbers from (mmmorris(a)netscape.net)

o Relaxed the dependency requirements of nmapfe rpm (now will accept
  any version of Nmap).

Nmap 2.3BETA12

o Added interactive mode which adds convenience for managing nmap
  sessions and also enhances privacy.  Get to it with --interactive
  and then type 'h' for help.

o Added/modified many fingerprints including the latest 2.3.X Linux
  releases, the latest Win2000 builds, the Apple Airport Wireless
  device, and several dozen more.

o Migrated to RPM .spec file sent in by Tim Powers
  (timp(a)redhat.com).  That is the file they will be using to package
  Nmap with the power tools CD in the next Redhat release.  The most
  important changes are that Nmap (only the RPM version) now installs
  in /usr/* instead of /usr/local/* and the frontend is now
  dynamically linked with GTK and comes in a separate rpm.

o The -i (input from list) option has been deprecated.  From now on
  you should use -iL [filename] to read from a list or -iR to have
  Nmap generate random IPs to scan.  This -iR option is new.

o The -o and -m options have been deprecated.  From now on, you should
  use -oN for normal (human readable) output and -oM for machine
  parseable output.  At some point I might add -oH (HTML output) or
  -oSK (sKr|pt kiDdi3 0uTPut).

o Added --randomize_hosts option, which causes hosts be be scanned in
  non-sequential order.  This makes scans less conspicuous.  For
  efficiency reasons, the hosts are chopped into groups of 2048 and
  then each group is internally shuffled (the groups still go in
  order).

o Rearranged the help ('nmap -h' or 'nmap' or 'nmap --help') screen to
  be shorter (37 -> 23 lines!) and include some of the new features of
  this release.  The man page was updated as well.

o Fixed longstanding bug where nmap -sS mylocalnetwork/24 would not
  successfully scan the host running nmap.

o Internal improvements to make scanning faster with -i (input list)
  or when you specify multiple machines on the command line.

o Uses faster GCD algorithm and fixed several typos (sent in by Peter
  Kosinar).

o Provide more information in machine/human readable output files
  (start time, end time, RPC program name, Nmap version number)

o Killed the -A option (if you don't know what that is then you won't
  miss it.  In fact, even if you do know what it is you won't miss
  it.)

Nmap 2.3BETA10

o Added about 70 new OS fingerprints so that Nmap can detect more
  systems.  The most important new fingerprints are probably:
  * The new SP5+ NT boxes -- After all these years MS FINALLY made
    sequence prediction harder (on NT anyway).
  * Solaris 8 Pre-Release
  * Sega Dreamcast (Hack that!)
  * Latest Windows 2000 builds
  * OpenBSD 2.6

Nmap 2.3BETA9

o Applied patch by Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) to fix several type
  length issues so that it works on Linux/Alpha.

o Applied patch by Matthieu Verbert (mve(a)zurich.ibm.com) to speed up OSScan

Nmap 2.3Beta8

o Added "firewall mode" timing optimizations which can decrease the
  ammount of time neccessary to SYN or connect scan some heavily
  filtered hosts.

o Added min_rtt_timeout timing option (see man page for details)

o Changed "TCP Ping" to use a random ACK value rather than 0 (an IDS
  called Snort was using this to detect Nmap TCP Pings).

o Some changes for better Alpha/Linux support based on investigation
  by Bill Beers (wbeers(a)carolina.rr.com)

o Applied changes for FDDI support by Tobias J. Nijweide (tobias(a)mesa.nl)

o Applied a socket binding patch from LaMont Jones
  (lamont(a)security.hp.com) which can be useful when using -S to
  specify one of multiple interfaces on a machine.

o Made OS detection smart enough to first check scan results for a
  known closed port instead of immediately resorting to a random one.
  This improves OS detection against some machines behind packet
  filters. (suggested by van Hauser)

o Applied a shortcut suggestion by Thomas Reinke which can lead to a
  tremendous speedup against some firewalled hosts.

o Added some ports commonly used for RPC to nmap-services

o Fixed a problem with the timing of an RPC scan (could come before
  the UDP scans they rely on)

o Added a number of new ports to nmap-services

Nmap 2.3Beta6

o Added sophisticated timing controls to give the user much more
  control over Nmap's speed.  This allows you to make Nmap much more
  aggressive to scan hosts faster, or you can make Nmap more "polite"
  -- slower but less likely to wreak havoc on your Network.  You can
  even enforce large delays between sending packets to sneak under IDS
  thresholds and prevent detection.  See the new "Timing Options"
  section of the Nmap man page for more information on using this.

o Applied Lamont Granquist's (lamontg(a)u.washington.edu) Window scan
  patch (I changed the name from ACK scan to Window scan since I may
  add another scan that uses ACK packets and I don't want them to be
  confused).  -sW activates this scan type.  It is mostly effective
  against BSD, AIX, Digital UNIX, and various older HP/UX, SunOS, and
  VAX. (See nmap-hackers mailing list archives for an extensive list).

o Added various long options people expect to see like --version ,
  --help , --usage , etc.  Some of the new timing options are also long.
  I had to add getopt_long C files since most non-Linux boxes don't
  support getopt_long in libc.

o Human readable (-o) output changed to include the time/date of the
  scan.  Suggested by van Hauser.

Nmap 2.3-Beta5

o Changed RPC output based on suggestions by David O'Brien
  (obrien(a)NUXI.com) and Lance Spitzner (lance(a)spitzner.net).  I
  got rid of the "(Non-RPC)" unnecessary clutter which appeared after
  each non RPC port and the "(untested)" that appeard after each
  "filtered" port.

o Added a ton of new OS fingerprints people submitted.  I had about
  400 in my inbox.  Of course, almost 100 of them were submissions for
  www.windows2000test.com :).

o Changed the machine parseable output of RPC information to include
  the version information.  If we figured out the RPC info, it is now
  provided as "program-num*lowversion-highversion".  If we didn't get
  the number, but we think the port is RPC, the field simply contains
  "R".  If we believe the port is NOT RPC, then the field contains
  "N".  If the field is empty, we did not RPC scan the port.  Thanks
  to H D Moore (nlog(a)ings.com) for making me aware how much the
  earlier machine parseable RPC logging sucked :).

Nmap 2.3-Beta4

o Added direct (non-portmapper) RPC scanning to determine what RPC
  program is listening on a particular port.  This works for UDP and
  TCP ports and is currently implemented using sockets (which means
  you can't use decoys, but on the other hand you don't have to be
  root).  Thanks go to ga (ga(a)capyork.com) for writing sample code
  to demonstrate the technique.  The RPC services list included with
  nmap was compiled by Vik Bajaj (vbajaj(a)sas.upenn.edu) with help
  from various members of the nmap-hackers list.

o Fixed a problem that could cause freezes when you scan machines on
  at least two different types of interfaces as part of the same
  command.

o Identified and found workaround for Linux kernel bug which allows
  connect() to sometimes succeed inapropriately when scanning closed
  ports on localhost.

o Fixed problems relating to people who specify the same port more
  than once on the command line.  While the right answer is "well,
  don't do that!", I decided to fix nmap to handle this gracefully.

o Tweaked UDP scanning to be more effective against Solaris ICMP error
  limiting.

o Fixed strtol() integer overflow problem found by Renaud Deraison
  (deraison(a)cvs.nessus.org)

o The HTML translation of the Man page at
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_manpage.html should now be
  complete (man2html was dropping lines before).

o Added a note in the man page that Nmap 2.0+ is believed to be
  COMPLETELY Y2K COMPLIANT!  I've been getting a lot of letters from
  laywers about that recently.  You should still be able to port scan
  on Jan 1st (well ... as long as you have electricity and gangs of
  looting thugs haven't stolen your computers :)

Nmap 2.2-Beta4

o Integrated nmapfe code from Zach Smith to allow the nmapfe output
  window to resize when you resize the nmapfe window.

o Integrated patch sent in by Stefan Erben (stefan(a)erben.com) which
  allows nmap to recognize and ignore null interfaces.  If you were
  getting a bogus error like "eth0 not found in /proc/net/route" then
  this should solve your problem.

o Applied patch from Alexander Savelyev (fano(a)ham.kiev.ua) which
  gives nmap the parameters necessary to support SLIP and PPP on BSDI
  systems.

o Upgraded to a new version of shtool (1.2.3)

Nmap 2.2-Beta3

o Adopted Ralf S. Engelschall's excellent shtool script for
  simplifying the nmap makefile and making it more portable

o Various other minor changes to nmapfe.

Nmap 2.2-Beta2

o Cleaned up build environment more, fixed up RPM and Makefile.in,
  eliminated the automake stuff.

o Added nmapfe feature to show nmap command as you change options

o Changed nmapfe to use a global MyWidgets struct rather than tons of
  global vars all over the place.

o Made nmapfe much smarter about rejecting stupid option attempts.  It
  now tries to correct things when you specify illegal options.

o GTK+ 1.0 compatibility fixes

o Integrated nmapfe changes from Zach

Nmap 2.2-BETA1

o Integrated in nmapfe -- a cool front end wrottem by Zach Smith (matrxweb(a)hotmail.com)

Nmap 2.12

o Changed the way tcp connect() scan determines the results of a
  connect() call.  Hopefully this will make nmap a little more
  portable.

o Got rid of the security warning message for people who are missing
  /dev/random and /dev/urandom due to complaints about the warning.
  This only silences the warnings -- it still uses relatively weak
  random number generation under Solaris and other systems that lack
  this functionality.

o Eliminated pow() calls on Linux boxes.  I think some sort of glibc
  bug was causing nmap to sigsegv in some cases inside of pow().  Most
  people weren't affected, but those who were would almost always
  SIGSEGV with -O.

o Fixed an rpm problem noted by Mark Smith (marks(a)senet.com.au)

Nmap 2.11

o Many new fingerprints added.  I received more than 300 submissions
  between this release and the last one.

o Fixed IRIX problems which prevented OS scanning from working on that
  platform.  The problem was researched and solution found by Lamont
  Granquist (lamontg(a)u.washington.edu).  You can also thank him for
  porting nmap to almost every UNIX around.

o Added support for '-m -' to redirect machine readable logs to stdout
  for shell pipelining, etc.  I also changed machine readable output
  to show service names now that we use a nmap specific services file
  rather than /etc/services.  These features were suggested by Dan
  Farmer.  You can also thank him for SATAN (the auditing tool).

o Fixed a link-list bug that could cause hangs in UDP,FIN,NULL, and
  XMAS scans.  Also fixed a ptr problem that could cause SIGSEGV.
  These problem were discovered and tracked down by Ben Laurie
  (ben(a)algroup.co.uk).  You can also thank him for Apache, OpenSSL,
  and Apache-SSL.

o Fixed installation problem for people without a /usr/local/man/man1
  directory.  Found by Jeffrey Robertson (a-jeffro(a)microsoft.com).
  I guess you can thank him for Win98 ;).

o Several other little fixes to the installation script and minor
  scanner tweaks.

Nmap 2.10

o Private test release 

Nmap 2.09

o Private test release 

Nmap 2.08

o Bugfix for problem that can cause nmap to appear to "freeze up" for
  long periods of time when run on some busy networks. (found by
  Lamont Granquist)

Nmap 2.07

o Fixed a lockup on Solaris (and perhaps other proprietary UNIX
  systems) caused by a lack of /dev/random & /dev/urandom and a rand()
  that only returns values up to 65535.  Users of Free operating
  systems like Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD probably shouldn't bother
  upgrading.

Nmap 2.06

o Fixed compile problems on machines which lack snprintf() (found by
  Ken Williams (jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu))

o Added the squid proxy to nmap-services (suggested by Holger Heimann)

o Fixed a problem where the new memory allocation system was handing
  out misaligned pointers.

o Fixed another memory allocation bug which probably doesn't cause any
  real-life problems.

o Made nmap look in more places for nmap-os-fingerprints

Nmap 2.05

o Tons of new fingerprints.  The number has grown by more than 25%.
  In particular, Charles M. Hannum (root(a)ihack.net) fixed several
  problems with NetBSD that made it easy to fingerprint and he sent me
  a huge new batch of fingerprints for various NetBSD releases down to
  1.2.  Other people sent NetBSD fingerprints down to 1.0.  I finally
  got some early Linux fingerprints in (down to 1.09).

o Nmap now comes with its own nmap-services which I created by merging
  the /etc/services from a bunch of OS' and then adding Netbus, Back
  Orifice, etc.

o Random number generation now takes advantage of the /dev/urandom or
  /dev/random that most Free operating systems offer.

o Increased the maximum number of OS guesses nmap will make, told nmap
  never to give you two matches where the OS names are byte-to-byte
  equivalent.  Fixed nmap to differentiate between "no OS matches
  found" and "too many OS matches to list".

o Fixed an information leak in the packet TTL values (found by HD
  Moore (hdmoore(a)usa.net))

o Fixed the problem noted by Savva Uspensky about offsets used for
  various operating systems' PPP/SLIP headers.  Due to lack of
  responses regarding other operating systems, I have made assumptions
  about what works for BSDI, NetBSD, and SOLARIS.  If this version no
  longer works on your modem, please let me know (and tell me whether
  you are using SLIP/PPP and what OS you are running).

o Machine parseable logs are now more machine parseable (I now use a
  tab to seperate test result fields rather than the more ambiguous
  spaces.  This may break a few things which rely on the old format.
  Sorry.  They should be easy to fix.

o Added my nmap-fingerprintinting-article.txt to the distribution in
  the docs directory.

o Fixed problem where nmap -sS (my_ethernet_or_ppp_ip_address) would
  not correctly scan localhost (due to the kernel rerouting the
  traffic through localhost).  Nmap should now detect and work around
  this behavior.

o Applied patch sent to my by Bill Fenner (fenner(a)parc.xerox.com)
  which fixes various SunOS compatibility problems.

o Changed the makefile 'all' target to use install-sh rather than
  mkdir -p (doesn't work on some systems)

o Documentation updated and clarified slightly.

o Added this CHANGELOG file to the distribution.
