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@jjnicola jjnicola released this 17 Apr 14:14
v1.0+beta1
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This is the first beta release of the gvm-libs module 1.0 for the Greenbone
Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework.

It derives from the former openvas-libraries module. Any elements of the
old module that were used by OpenVAS Scanner only, were moved into the
module openvas-scanner. Also the protocol OMP was renamed to GMP.

Apart from this, the module covers a number of significant advances
and clean-ups compared to the previous openvas-libraries module.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Francesco Colista, Albrecht Dress, Christian Fischer, Matt
Mundell, Juan Jose Nicola, Timo Pollmeier, Bjoern Ricks, Jan-Oliver Wagner
and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes compared to openvas-libraries 9.0:

  • Many files have been moved to this new module from openvas-libraries
    and other files have been renamed to match the new terminology (libgvm_*).
    Also the default installation paths switched from "openvas" to "gvm"
    and thus any include directive needs to be adapted in depdending source codes.
  • Additionally OMP (OpenVAS Management Protocol) has been renamed to GMP
    (Greenbone Management Protocol), including library names, include files
    and data types.
  • Function to handle IP connections has been removed since the scanner does
    only unix socket connections.
  • Handling of vhosts and multiple domain names to one single IP have
    been added.
  • Handling of hostnames that resolve to multiple IPs has been added.
  • Handling of Unix and unknown socket types have been added to
    "sockaddr_as_str".
  • Several function to handle the kb content have been added.
  • A function to ping gvm has been added.
  • New compress function with support for gzip header has been added.
  • Access to XML entity properties has been improved.
  • Host, IP address and port in gvm_server_open_verify are verified for sane
    values.
  • Large file support when building with GPGME has been enabled.
  • The symbol separator in a log message is now configurable.
  • As all modules use the same log functions, legacy log functions have
    been removed.
  • Old TODOs have been resolved.
  • Documentation has been updated.
  • Code readability has been improved by completing coverage of doc-strings.
  • The CMake building process was improved.
  • An issue template has been added.
  • Several memory management issues have been addressed.
  • Cmake macro file for code indentation has been removed.
  • Minimum required version of glib/gio have been raised to 2.42.
  • Minimum required version of zlib has been raised to 1.2.8.
  • Minimum required version of cmake has been raised to 3.0.
  • Minimum required version of libssh has been raised to 0.6.0.
  • Minimum required version of libldap has been raised to 2.4.44.
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