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Nmap 4.75 Released!

Nmap 4.75 has almost 100 significant improvements since 4.68. Some of these improvements are: o While Nmap stands for "Network Mapper", it hasn't been able to actually draw you a map of the network--until now! Visit http://nmap.org/book/zenmap- topology.html for details and pretty pictures of Zenmap's new Scan Topology system. o I spent much of this summer scanning tens of millions of IPs on the Internet (plus collecting data contributed by some enterprises) to determine the most commonly open ports. Nmap now uses that empirical data to scan more effectively. And there is much more, from hundreds of new OS detection fingerprints to many new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts and libraries. I had no idea how many people still used Windows 2000 until 4.68 came out broken on that platform and I was flooded with email! That is fixed now. And its just one of many bug fixes and performance improvements in this release. Remember that we had 7 Google SoC students wor...