Tenable Releases Nessus 3.2 Beta for Testing

February 20, 2007 · Columbia, MD

Today, Tenable released Nessus 3.1.2 for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris which is a beta version of the upcoming Nessus 3.2. Nessus 3.2 contains the following new features:

  • Experimental IPv6 support
  • Improved bandwidth throttling
  • Extended nessusd.rules to add support for ports and plugins
  • New command 'nessuscmd' which lets you do a quick command-line scan
  • Improved NASL engine
  • Easy-update: Nessus can now update its own engine thru the use of a single command (nessus-update)

Detailed information about these features is available on Tenable's blog Thanks for testing this release and sending your feedback to deraison (at) nessus.org.