OpenVAS Scanner v6.0+beta1

This is the first beta release of the openvas-scanner module 6.0 for the
Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework.

This version inherits all elements of the former openvas-libraries that were
used by OpenVAS Scanner only.

Apart from this, the module covers a number of significant advances
and clean-ups.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Christian Fischer, Juan Jose Nicola, Bjoern Ricks,
Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes compared to 5.1:

• The required minimum version of new dependency GVM Libraries is 1.0.
• Many files which are only used for openvas-scaner have been moved to this
  module from openvas-libraries. Therefore many include directives have been
  adapted to the new source code. The dependency to module openvas-libraries
  was removed.
• OTP has been changed regarding the NVT category: It is now sent as integer
  instead of as a string.
• Plugin scheduler has been improved.
• NASL cryptography support has been updated.
• The use of winexe has been replaced with using wmiexec.py.
• Support for bigger numbers has been added to nasl_int function.
• The logging method has been completely re-arranged to follow the standard
  logging methodology like all other GVM modules. Apart from unification,
  essentially the scanner log now has timestamps.
  • openvassd.dump does not exist anymore: The log information are now handled
    via central logging with respective log domain.
  • Log location has been moved to /var/log/gvm/.
  • Support for using GLIB based logging has been added and logging messages
    have been reviewed and improved.
  • It is now possible to configure the logging via /etc/openvas/openvassd_log.conf
• openvas-nasl-lint has been improved.
• Handling of vhost has been improved.
• The scanner inter-process communication has been simplified.
• The use of struct arglist has been reduced, among others global struct for scans
  has been changed to struct global_scan. Other uses of arglist we transformed
  into redis-based data handling.
• Handling of non_simultaneous_ports_list has been improved.
• Handling of the plugin preferences and their communication to the client have
  been improved.
• Host/dead and Host/ping_failed are checked before attempting to launch the
  plugin.
• Greenbone NVT sync process has been improved: The scanner detects now on its own
  when the feed was updated and automatically loads new and changed NVTs.
• Location of access key is now configurable.
• The NASL command script_id has been removed.
• The NASL command script_summary has been removed.
• Command line option --gnupg-home has been removed.
• openvas_popen has been replaced with GLib routine.
• Error handling has been improved.
• Documentation has been updated.
• Several memory management aspects have been improved.
• Various code cleanups and improvements, partly derived from static code analysis.
• The CMake building process was improved.
• Compilation issue with gcc 7 due to a switch fallthrough has been addressed.
• Minimum required version of glib has been raised to 2.42.
• Minimum required version of cmake has been raised to 3.0.
• Minimum required version of libssh has been raised to 0.6.0.

OpenVAS Scanner v5.0.9

This is the ninth maintenance release of the openvas-scanner 5.0 module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 8 (OpenVAS-8).

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Christian Fischer, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Juan Jose Nicola.

Main changes compared to 5.0.8:

• Redis performance has been improved reducing the number of queries during
  a scan.
• An issue related to the dependency cycle detection has been addressed.

OpenVAS Scanner v5.1.2

This is the second maintenance release of the openvas-scanner 5.1 module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System 9 (OpenVAS-9).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Björn Ricks, Michael Wiegand, and Juan José Nicola.

Main changes compared to 5.1.1:

• Plugin scheduling has been improved.
• An issue which caused segmentation faults under certain circumstances when
  openvas-scanner was built with GnuTLS < 3.3.0 has been addressed.
• The use of hostname and IP while logging has been made more consistent.
• An issue which caused NVTs to be executed out of sequence has been addressed.
• An issue which caused the main scanner process to terminate prematurely when
  receiving a SIGHUP signal under certain circumstances has been addressed.
• Increased dependency for openvas-libraries from 9.0.0 to 9.0.2.
• A Redis error is considered fatal and all running scans are stopped. A
  message is sent to the client and the NVTs are reloaded.
• A new progress bar style in which dead host are not taken in account was
  added, which makes more time realistic the progress bar.
• An issue which caused low scan performance has been addressed.
• The preference log_whole_attack is now an scanner-only preference.
• Several memory management issues have been addressed.
• Load-up plugins process is now a forked child process, which prevent main
  process memory footprint growth.
• Plugin preferences are sent directly to the client.
• Full nvticache has been moved from .nvti files to Redis.
• An issue with dependency cycle detection has been addressed.
• An issue which cause complete deletion of nvticache before reloading has
  been addressed.