Tenable Announces the Release of Nessus 3.0.1

Nessus 3.0.1 (build 114) is now available on our web sites.

Here is the list of changes in this release:

Improvements:

• Lighter resources consumption of the master processes, which in turn improve scalability (one has to account for ~ 6 megabytes of RAM per host tested in parallel)
• Reduce the CPU usage of nessusd when the only running plugin is executing a local command
• Improved the timing of synscan.nes which could result in very long (nearly infinite in time) port scans
• Slightly faster (~ 20%) initial processing of the plugins

Bug fixes:

• When nessusd updates itself, the process now restarts properly
• Fixed the error message "Warning this scanner seems to be using the plugin feed of another host" which would sometimes be displayed when the nessusd host changes of IP addresses
• Fixed a NULL pointer dereferencement which may happen in some cases when dealing with shared sockets

Other :

• Removed bogus warning messages occurring when max_checks is set to a very high value (which is not a good idea in the first place -- max_checks should be set to 4 most of the time)
• KB files of hosts which are dead are not saved on disk (as they are empty)
• Re-introduced HTML export, due to popular demand
• The RPMs have stronger dependencies set
• The SuSE 9.3 build is now linked to the default libdb 4.3

Thanks to everyone who contributed his feedback!   

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