What's new in Nessus 6.4.2
Jul 21, 2015
- Bug Fixes:
- Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1p
- Improved resource management during server reloads
- Improved host discovery scan performance
- Fix issue with importing large .nessus files
New in Nessus 6.4.1 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue where agent may not restart after plugin update.
New in Nessus 6.4.0 (Jul 21, 2015)
- New Features, Improvements, Platform Support:
- AirWatch MDM Audits
- MobileIron MDM audit
- Cloud Services Audit - RackSpace Configuration Assessment
- Auditing open ports on Linux/Unix
- Add ability to copy scans
- Support CyberArk as an External Credential Store in Nessus
- Import Nmap results into Nessus to seed scan knowledge base
- Agents for OS X
- Agents for RHEL
- Agents for Fedora
- Allow users to copy Nessus Scans
- Allow access to Nessus APIs via API tokens
- Allow filtering scan results by CWE
- Registration page should include how to get activation code
- Credentialed Patch Audit Template should add assessment page to handle false positives.
- Update plugin output host links
- Allow users to toggle line and bar displays for historical charts
- Include Nessus build number in version information in UI, properties api
- Document switches that can be provided to agent installer command line
- Add support for TLS 1.2 to Nessus
- Improve efficiency of scan report upload to manager
- Bug Fixes:
- Improved compatibility with SecurityCenter for exported policies
- Improved Scan Dashboard queries
- Improved Nessus Agent scalability and results display
- Improved Nessusd stability
- Improved SSH credential handling
- Improved differential scan selection
- Imported scans do not display the correct start and end times
- Update 'Credentialed Patch Audit' to use only the credentials provided in the policy
- Scan fragile devices is enabled by default in templates that aren't using a the 'custom' discovery view.
- Disabling a scan job from the 'Scan' view by selecting the job, clicking more->disable, does not disable the job.
- Charts are blurry on high-density displays
- Plugin archives uploaded through the UI fail to install
- For an expired activation with auto_updates disabled a new activation key will not show in UI as updated.
- Remote Scanners now honor proxy settings
- Compliance plugins no longer shown as vulnerabilities
New in Nessus 5.2.0 (Apr 30, 2013)
- IPv6 is now supported on all platforms (including Windows)
- Add attachments within scan result reports
- Mac OS X preference pane
- Digitally-signed Nessus RPM packages for supporting distributions
- Smaller memory footprint and reduced disk space usage
- Faster, more responsive web interface (uses less bandwidth)
- No longer need to visit the Tenable website for an activation code!