gsa 4.0.2 (2013-10-23)

This is the second maintenance release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA)
4.0 module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 6 (OpenVAS-6).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

This release fixes a number of issues which were discovered after the release
of Greenbone Security Assistant 4.0.1. For details please refer to the list
below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabilis, Matthew Mundell, Timo Pollmeier.

Main changes since 4.0.1:
* Improved input validation for several dialogs.
* Added new note and override buttons on the New Note page.
* Added section "Host Identifcation" to Asset Details.
* Improved schedules regarding timezone.
* Bug fixes to preserve filtering in some places.
* Buf fix for report download to consider the current overrides setting
  instead of applying overrides always.
* Bug fix to keep override setting when jumping to a report from task view.
* Bug fix to preserve overrides setting across actions on task page.
* Bug fix regarding change of a users password.
* Bug fix to avoid NOSUMMARY tooltip that occured for newstyle NVTs.
* Improved error handling for XSL transformations.
* Various little bug fixes.


gsa 4.0.1 (2013-06-07)

This is the first maintenance release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA)
4.0 module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 6 (OpenVAS-6).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

This release fixes a number of issues which were discovered after the release
of Greenbone Security Assistant 4.0.0. For details please refer to the list
below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 4.0.0:
* A bug which cause targets and scan configs to be lost when editing tasks has
  been fixed.
* A number of broken internal links inside the online help have been fixed.
* A bug which caused alerts to be ignored when creating tasks has been fixed.
* A bug which selected the delta report functionality when a report was deleted
  has been fixed.
* The documentation of the result powerfilter has been improved.


gsa 4.0.0 (2013-04-15)

This is the first release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) 4.0 module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 6 (OpenVAS-6).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

GSA 4.0 implements all of the new features of the protocol OMP 4.0.
This includes automatic filtering of likely false positives, powerfilter
support in more places, access to OVAL and DFN-CERT data and a wizard for new
users. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the list below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Andre Heinecke, Hani Benhabiles, Henri Doreau, Andre Heinecke, Werner Koch,
Matthew Mundell, Timo Pollmeier, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix
Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 3.0.x:
* Increase dependencies to GnuTLS 2.8 and libraries 6.0.
* Renamed "Escalator" to "Alert".
* Added keyword filter, pagination, export and edit to Targets.
* "New Target" now a page of its own.
* The CMake infrastructure has been cleaned up to ensure that compilation with
  modern gccs works.
* Support for OMP capabilities has been added.
* Support for Auto-FP feature and trusted vendor updates has been added.
* Support for multiple alerts per task has been added.
* Support for a wizard for new users has been added.
* Support for filter management has been added.
* Powerfilters are now available in more places.
* CPE Management has been improved.
* Support for browsing the CVE database has been added.
* Support for accessing OVAL and DFN-CERT data has been added.
* Powerfilters have been improved and are now available in more places.
* SCAP synchronization can now be triggered from the web interface.
* Date selection for schedules has been improved.
* The documentation available through the Help menu has been updated and
  extended.
* Exporting and editing is now supported for more objects.
* Add summary and detection sections in NVT details.
* Adapt results details to NVT description content break-up.
* ovaldefs and dfn-cert output and doc update.
* URI encode filter terms in HTTP links.

And additionally changes compared to last release candidate 4.0+rc1:
* Editing of the associated config and target is now allowed as long as the
  task is in the "New" status.
* Switch to the system default filter is now possible even if a personal
  default filter was defined.


gsa 4.0+rc1 (2013-03-18)

This is the first release candidate of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release brings improvements to NVT, ovaldefs, dfn-cert and results details
content and formatting and increased dependencies version for GnuTLS to 2.8 and
libraries to 6.0 as well as various other fixes.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Timo Pollmeier, Matthew Mundell.

Main changes since 4.0+beta5:
* Add summary and detection sections in NVT details.
* Adapt results details to NVT description content break-up.
* ovaldefs and dfn-cert output and doc update.
* Increase dependencies to GnuTLS 2.8 and libraries 6.0.
* Notes on help documentation update.
* URI encode filter terms in HTTP links.
* Various small fixes.


gsa 4.0+beta5 (2013-02-22)

This is the fifth beta version of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for new features in OpenVAS Manager 4.0+beta5
like the improved Powerfilters, easy access to CVE, OVAL and DFN-CERT data and
various improvements to the interface.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Henri Doreau, Andre Heinecke, Werner Koch, Matthew Mundell,
Timo Pollmeier, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 4.0+beta4:
* Support for browsing the CVE database has been added.
* Support for accessing OVAL and DFN-CERT data has been added.
* Powerfilters have been improved and are now available in more places.
* SCAP synchronization can now be triggered from the web interface.
* Date selection for schedules has been improved.
* The documentation available through the Help menu has been updated and
  extended.
* Exporting and editing is now supported for more objects.


gsa 4.0+beta4 (2012-11-05)

This is the fourth beta version of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for new features in OpenVAS Manager 4.0+beta4 like
the automatic filtering of false positives, multiple alerts and a wizard for
new users.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Andre Heinecke, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 4.0+beta3:
* Support for Auto-FP feature and trusted vendor updates has been added.
* Support for multiple alerts per task has been added.
* Support for a wizard for new users has been added.
* Support for filter management has been added.
* Help texts have been improved.
* Powerfilters are now available in more places.
* CPE Management has been improved.


gsa 4.0+beta3 (2012-05-04)

This is the third beta version of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for new features in OpenVAS Manager
4.0+beta3 and includes several small UI fixes.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 4.0+beta3:
* Support for OMP capabilities has been added.
* Several small inconsistencies in the user interfaces have been addressed.


gsa 4.0+beta2 (2012-04-25)

This is the second beta version of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release fixes a compatibility issue with Firefox 3.5, includes updates to
the CMake infrastructure and adds support for new features in OpenVAS Manager
4.0+beta2.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 4.0+beta2:
* The CMake infrastructure has been cleaned up to ensure that compilation with
  modern gccs works.
* A compatibility issue with Firefox 3.5 has been resolved.
* Support for new features in OpenVAS Manager 4.0+beta2 has been added.


gsa 4.0+beta1 (2012-04-16)

This is the first beta version of the upcoming 4.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release -- in combination with the OpenVAS Manager 4.0+beta1 release --
introduces the renaming of "Escalator" to "Alert" and an improved handling 
of the Targets list.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell.

Main changes since 3.0 series:

* Renamed "Escalator" to "Alert".
* Added keyword filter, pagination, export and edit to Targets.
* "New Target" now a page of its own.
* Updated Target details page slightly.
* Split and updated help pages for targets into multiple pages, each linked
  by corresponding dialogs.


gsa 3.0.0 (2012-03-26)

This is the first release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) 3.0 module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 5 (OpenVAS-5).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

GSA 3.0 implements all of the new features of the protocol OMP 3.0.
This includes Asset Management, Port Lists, SecInfo Management with SCAP data,
delta reports and prognostic reports.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver
Wagner.

Main changes since 2.0.x:

* New: Configure object Port Lists.
* New: References info box in results view.
* New: Product detection info box in results view.
* New: Allow target list upload from file.
* New: Support for note/overrrides lifetimes.
* New: Support for empty passwords has been added.
* New: Support for changing user passwords.
* New: Asset Management.
* New: Exporting notes and overrides.
* New: Prognostic scans.
* New: Task observers.
* New: SecInfo Database with SCAP data CVE and CPE.
* New: Individual user settings, starting with time zone.
* New: Delta reports.
* New: Display single result details.
* Changed: The max_host and max_checks scan performance parameters have
  been moved from scan configs to tasks.
* New: Indicators for detected operating systems.
* New: Uploading additional reports to a container task.
* New: Displaying the hostname in the result.
* Changed: Limitations on passwords allowed for LSC credentials have been reduced
  further.
* New: Trashcan. It is now possible to place objects in a trashcan
  instead of deleting them directly.
* New: Number of results per page adjustable.
* The GSA no longer terminates upon receiving a SIGHUP signal to better match
  expected behavior.
* The login behaviour has been improved.
* Support for listing NVTs addressing a certain CVE has been added.
* Support for listing CVEs affecting a certain CPE has been added.
* An issue which caused uploaded PKCS #12 certificates to be incorrectly
  truncated has been fixed.
* The internal handling of request parameters has been improved.
* The user interface design has been updated.
* Support for improved handling of ISO timestamps has been added.
* A bug which caused valid hostnames to be rejected in the LDAP host field has
  been fixed.
* GET and POST requests are now used consistently throughout the GSA.
* A number of inconsistencies in the interface have been addressed.
* A number of compiler warnings discovered by Stephan Kleine have been
  addressed.

And additionally changes compared to last release candidate 3.0+rc1:

* New: Per-user LDAP authentication configurable.
* Allow to create notes/overrides for observed tasks.
* Allows ',' as separator for observer lists.


gsa 3.0+rc1 (2012-03-15)

This is the first release candidate of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds the Port Lists feature and report download for delta
reports and prognostic reports.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Matthew Mundell and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 3.0+beta8:
* New feature Port Lists.
* New references info box in results view.
* New product detection info box in results view.
* Allow target list upload from file.
* Various bug fixes.


gsa 3.0+beta8 (2011-12-02)

This is the eigth beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for note lifetimes and empty passwords and improves
input validation and the navigation when viewing delta reports.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 3.0+beta7:
* The navigation when viewing delta reports had been improved.
* Support for note lifetimes has been added.
* Support for empty passwords has been added.
* Input validation has been improved.


gsa 3.0+beta7 (2011-11-23)

This is the seventh beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release add support for improved handling of ISO timestamps and fixes
visual inconsistencies in asset management and override information display.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 3.0+beta6:
* Support for improved handling of ISO timestamps has been added.
* A number of visual inconsistencies in the asset management have been
  addressed.
* A bug with cause override information to be displayed even when no overrides
  were applied has been fixed.


gsa 3.0+beta6 (2011-11-16)

This is the sixth beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for changing the user password through GSA, improves
the display of SCAP data and adds support for exporting notes and overrides and
for override lifetimes. It also fixes a bug which cause sessions to expire
prematurely and a bug in the hostname validation for LDAP hosts.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 3.0+beta5:
* Support for changing user passwords has been added.
* Support for listing NVTs addressing a certain CVE has been added.
* Support for listing CVEs affecting a certain CPE has been added.
* Support for exporting notes and overrides has been added.
* A bug which caused sessions to expire prematurely with some browsers has been
  fixed.
* Support for displaying the SCAP update timestamp has been added.
* Support for override lifetimes has been added.
* A bug which caused valid hostnames to be rejected in the LDAP host field has
  been fixed.


gsa 3.0+beta5 (2011-10-11)

This is the fifth beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release adds support for a number of new features, including asset
management, displaying SCAP data, prognostic scans, task observers and
individual settings for users. It also features a redesigned user interface and
improved internal handling of request parameters.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 3.0+beta4:
* Support for asset management has been added.
* The internal handling of request parameters has been improved.
* The user interface design has been updated.
* Support for prognostic scans has been added.
* Support for task observers has been added.
* Support for displaying SCAP data has been added.
* Support for individual user settings has been added.
* Support for individual time zones for users has been added.


gsa 3.0+beta4 (2011-07-21)

This is the fourth beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release addresses a number of minor issues which were discovered after the
release of GSA 3.0+beta3 and improves the display of delta report and individual
result details. For details, please refer to the list of changes below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 3.0+beta3:
* A number of inconsistencies in the interface have been addressed.
* Support for displaying delta reports has been improved.
* Support for viewing individual result details has been improved.
* The max_host and max_checks scan performance parameters have been moved from
  scan configs to tasks.


gsa 3.0+beta3 (2011-06-24)

This is the third beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release addresses a number of minor issues which were discovered after the
release of GSA 3.0+beta2 and introduces a number of new features. For details,
please refer to the list of changes below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver
Wagner.

Main changes since 3.0+beta2:
* Support for displaying delta reports has been added.
* Support for showing detected operating systems has been improved.
* Support for uploading additional reports to a container task has been added.
* A number of compiler warnings discovered by Stephan Kleine have been
  addressed.
* An issue which caused uploaded PKCS #12 certificates to be incorrectly
  truncated has been fixed.
* The display of command results has been improved.
* Support for displaying the hostname in the result has been added.
* Support for viewing individual result details has been added.


gsa 3.0+beta2 (2011-05-19)

This is the second beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release addresses a number of minor issues which were discovered after the
release of GSA 3.0+beta1. For details, please refer to the list of changes
below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 3.0+beta1:
* Limitations on passwords allowed for LSC credentials have been reduced
  further.
* GET and POST requests are now used consistently throughout the GSA.
* The GSA no longer terminates upon receiving a SIGHUP signal to better match
  expected behavior.


gsa 3.0+beta1 (2011-05-05)

This is the first beta version of the upcoming 3.0 release of the Greenbone
Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full feature set
of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.

This release -- in combination with the OpenVAS Manager 3.0+beta1 release --
introduces a number of new features. For details, please refer to the list of
changes below.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Henri Doreau, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 2.0 series:
* New feature: Trashcan. It is now possible to place objects in a trashcan
  instead of deleting them directly.
* The login behaviour has been improved.
* Support for Host Details reported by OpenVAS Scanner has been added.
* Support for container task (imported reports) has been added.
* Support for specifying an SSH port for Local Security Checks has been added.
* Support for escalating result to a Sourcefire Defense Center has been added.
* Support for using an SSH key pair for SSH authentication has been added.
* Support for setting the number of results displayed on one page has been
  added.


gsa 2.0.1 (2011-03-02)

This is the first maintenance release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA)
2.0 module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 4 (OpenVAS-4).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

This release fixes three memory and resource leaks discovered after the release
of GSA 2.0.0. It also switches XSL transformations to a separate process, which
protects the GSA from threading and memory errors in libxslt and libxml.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Pavel Sejnoha, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 2.0.0:
* Two memory leaks discovered by Pavel Sejnoha and one resource leak discovered
  by Felix Wolfsteller have been closed.
* GSA now does XSL transformation in a separate process by default.


gsa 2.0.0 (2011-02-21)

This is the first release of the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) 2.0 module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 4 (OpenVAS-4).
It is the web client that makes the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager
available in a web browser.

GSA 2.0 implements all of the new features of the protocol OMP 2.0.
This includes the plugin based report format framework, the master-slave
mode and many other changes and improvements. It also brings several
improvements to existing features, like credential management, session
management and an improved build environment.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix
Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.x:
* Support for report format plugin framework has been added.
* Support for master-slave mode has been added.
* Support for editing credentials has been added.
* Support for agent verification has been added.
* Input validation for user names and passwords has been improved.
* Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer has been improved.
* The usability and layout of the web interface has been improved.
* GSA now builds with libmicrohttpd 0.9.2 and above.
* Target credentials for SMB and SSH are now separated.
* The user interface for displaying filtered reports and for report downloads
  has been improved.
* Hardening flags are now enabled during compile time to increase code quality.
* Support for setting the port range for a target has been added.
* If no port is specified, GSA will now attempt to listen on the appropriate
  privileged port (80 or 443) and fall back to listening on its default port
  (9392) if those are unavailable.
* GSA now uses pkg-config to find required libraries.
* The HTTP Basic Auth based session management has been replace with a token
  based session management.
* A JavaScript indicator has been added.
* Support for fallback system reports has been added.
* The "About" page has been reworked.
* Cookie based session identification has been added.

Main changes since 2.0+rc5:
* The JavaScript indicator has been improved.
* GSA now checks for required libxml threading support.


gsa 2.0+rc5 (2011-02-18)

This is the fifth release candidate for the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full
feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.  Release 2.0 is part
of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

This release fixes an issue which caused some actions in the GSA to fail due to
an error in the cookie base session identification and improves the handling of
relogins after expired sessions.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell.

Main changes since 2.0+rc4:
* The cookie base session identification has been improved.
* An issue with parsing the session cookie has been fixed.
* The handling of POST requests after a relogin has been improved.


gsa 2.0+rc4 (2011-02-17)

This is the fourth release candidate for the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full
feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.  Release 2.0 is part
of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

This release features a new cookie based session identification infrastructure,
several improvements to user interface, documentation and build environment and
adds support for fallback system reports.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 2.0+rc3:
* The documentation and the build environment have been updated.
* The scan config overview now shows the number of selected NVT through family
  selection as well.
* A JavaScript indicator has been added.
* Support for fallback system reports has been added.
* An issue which caused logins to fail under certain circumstances due to overly
  strict input validation has been fixed.
* The "About" page has been reworked.
* Cookie base session identification has been added.


gsa 2.0+rc3 (2011-02-04)

This is the third release candidate for the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full
feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.  Release 2.0 is part
of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

This release features a complete replacement of the HTTP Basic Auth based
session management with a token based session management. It also contains
improved documentation and improvements to the build environment.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 2.0+rc2:
* A notice is added to the log if binding to the default port failed and the
  fallback port was used.
* GSA now uses pkg-config to find required libraries.
* The HTTP Basic Auth based session management has been replace with a token
  based session management.
* GSA now provides a manual page for the gsad binary.


gsa 2.0+rc2 (2011-01-21)

This is the second release candidate for the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full
feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.  Release 2.0 is part
of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

This release extends the range of valid characters for LSC credential passwords,
improves the behavior if no port is specified and makes the output of --version
compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 2.0+rc1:
* The output of --version now complies with the GNU Coding Standards.
* The range of valid characters for LSC credential passwords has been extended
  further.
* If no port is specified, GSA will now attempt to listen on the appropriate
  privileged port (80 or 443) and fall back to listening on its default port
  (9392) if those are unavailable.


gsa 2.0+rc1 (2010-12-21)

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes the full
feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.  Release 2.0 is part
of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

This release adds support for separate SMB and SSH credentials and for setting
per-target port ranges. It improves the user interface for displaying filtered
reports and for report downloads.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 2.0+beta1:
* Error handling for reports has been improved.
* A bug which cause credential comments to be ignored when creating new LSC
  credentials has been fixed.
* Target credentials for SMB and SSH are now separated.
* The user interface for displaying filtered reports and for report downloads
  has been improved.
* Hardening flags are now enabled during compile time to increase code quality.
* Support for setting the port range for a target has been added.


gsa 2.0+beta1 (2010-11-19)

This is the first beta version of the upcoming 2.0 release of the
Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA). It is the web client that makes
the full feature set of OpenVAS Manager available in a web browser.
Release 2.0 is part of OpenVAS 4, the next generation
of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

GSA 2.0 implements all of the new features of the protocol OMP 2.0.
This include the plugin based report format framework, the master-slave
mode and many other changes and improvements.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix
Wolfsteller.

Central new features of Greenbone Security Assistant 2.0:

* Support for report format plugin framework has been added.
* Support for master-slave mode has been added.
* Support for editing credentials has been added.
* Support for agent verification has been added.
* Input validation for user names and passwords has been improved.
* Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer has been improved.
* The usability and layout of the web interface has been improved.
* GSA now builds with libmicrohttpd 0.9.2 and above.


gsa 1.0.0 (2010-08-02)

This is the 1.0.0 release of GSA (Greenbone Security Assistant), an OMP web client
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

GSA 1.0 represents almost 2 years of intensive work. The mission of GSA is to be
a web client to the OpenVAS Manager 1.0 via the OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP).

GSA offers a complete implementation of OMP in order to access all features
to organize and manage OpenVAS vulnerability scans. Additionally, GSA
optionally acts as a client for the upcoming openvas-administrator using the
OpenVAS Administration Protocol (OAP) which allows e.g. management of scan users.

Central features of Greenbone Security Assistant are:

* Full OMP 1.0 client. The XML-based OMP responses are transformed into
  web pages via XSLT.

* No additional web-server required. The GSA daemon (gsad) uses microhttpd
  to implement a HTTP service on its own.

* Plain HTML. Neither cookies, JavaScript nor other dynamic elements are used.
  GSA works stateless and uses HTTP Basic Auth.

Greenbone Security Assistant is Free Software (Open Source), licensed
under GNU General Public License Version 2 or any later version.

The OpenVAS development team offers support for any efforts to create binary
packages for the various Linux distributions in order have this new server
readily available for users as soon as possible. Please use our openvas-distro
mailing list for this purpose.


Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release since 1.0.0.rc1:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 1.0.0.rc1:
* A bug which caused NVT preferences to be saved incorrectly under certain
  circumstances has been fixed.


gsa 1.0.0.rc1 (2010-07-16)

This is the first release candidate of the optional gsa module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta6:
* Support for LDAP and ADS has been added.
* A number of changes have been made to stay compatible with the updated OMP
  specification.
* Initial support for fetching targets from external sources has been added.
* Support for threat overrides has been added.
* Support for Syslog and SNMP escalators has been added.
* Support for agents has been improved.


gsa 1.0.0-beta7 (2010-05-28)

This is the seventh beta release of the optional gsa module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hartmut Goebel, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix
Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta6:
* An issue which caused empty charts in the performance monitor has been fixed.
* An issue which caused a new task created with both an escalator and a schedule
  to lose the schedule has been fixed.
* Support for Internet Explorer 6 clients has been improved.
* Support for using the "Threat Level Change" escalator condition has been
  added.
* The handling of uploaded preference files has been improved.
* The handling of requests for nonexistent pages has been improved.
* Support for pausing of tasks has been added.
* Support for displaying CVSS scores and Risk Factor values has been added.
* The handling of errors during XSL transformation has been improved.
* The scan start time and end time for individual host are now displayed in the
  report.
* Support for excluding hosts without results from the report has been added.
* Support for filtering results based on CVSS scores has been fixed.


gsa 1.0.0-beta6 (2010-04-15)

This is the sixth beta release of the optional gsa module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Mareike Piechowiak, Karl-Heinz Ruskowski,
Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta5:

* Support for ITG and CPE reports has been improved.
* Support for resuming stopped tasks has been added.
* Support for task scheduling has been added.
* Initial support for editing tasks has been added.
* Support for displaying the version of an installed feed has been added.
* A number of build issues have been fixed.
* The documentation available via the "?" icon has been updated.
* The gsad binary is now installed to /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin.


gsa 1.0.0-beta5 (2010-03-04)

This is the fifth beta release of the optional gsa module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta4:

* Support for notes has been added.
* Support for ITG and CPE reports has been added.
* Improved HTTP conformity.
* Significant speed-up.
* Various cosmetic changes of the html pages
  as well as of some report types.


gsa 1.0.0-beta4 (2010-02-05)

This is the fourth beta release of the optional gsa module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta3:

* Improved HTTP conformity.
* Improved Feed synchronization support.
* Improved line wrapping in reports.
* A bug in the report pagination has been fixed.


gsa 1.0.0-beta3 (2010-01-27)

This is the third beta release of the optional gsa module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the
upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta2:

* Improved HTTP conformity.
* Fixed resource leak.
* Improved input checking.
* Add option to run in chroot.


gsa 1.0.0-beta2 (2010-01-27)

This is the second beta release of the optional gsa module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the
upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0-beta1:

* Integrated online help extended. 
* Improved handling of feed management.
* Added support for administrator feature to edit
  scanner settings.
* Added support for administrator feature to edit
  user details (password, IP-based access rules).
* Allow "\" as part of a credential login name.
* Remain on the task page after deleting the
  task's last report.
* Improved handling of XML/HTML report exports.
* Added command line option "--listen", "--alisten",
  "--mlisten".


gsa 1.0.0-beta1 (2010-01-12)

This is the first beta release of the optional gsa module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) leading up to the
upcoming gsa 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Felix Wolfsteller and Michael Wiegand.

