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Changelog openvas-libraries (9.0.1-4)

2017

openvas-libraries (9.0.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   [ SZ Lin (林上智) ]
   * Fix FTBFS issue by trailing whitespace in PCAP_LDFLAGS (Closes: #876093)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0
 
   [ ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) ]
   * Bump compat to 10.
     * Migrate to use dh_missing.
   * Install manual for openvas-nasl-lint.
 
   [ Lukas Schwaighofer ]
   * cleanup for compat 10
     * no longer pass `--parallel` and `--with systemd` to dh, these options
       have become the default
     * no longer depend on dh-systemd (which is part of debhelper now)
   * debian/control cleanup
     * remove unnecessary version constraints from dependencies
     * remove Replaces/Conflicts with versions no longer present in the archive
     * radius support was dropped, no longer Build-Depend on libradcli-dev
   * use https for the link to the copyright format
   * move the openvas-nasl tool into a separate package
   * mark libopenvas9 as Multi-Arch: same, drop obsolete Pre-Depends
   * override the soname mismatch lintian warning
   * do not select the "release" cmake type
     * we do not want -O3 and some other options that are automatically added
     * however, due to otherwise excessive debug logging, -DNDEBUG is preserved
   * explicitly set DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in debian/rules
   * add a libopenvas-doc package containing the doxygen documentation

openvas-libraries (9.0.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * re-enable net-snmp support (Closes: #848080)

openvas-libraries (9.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Move package from experimental to sid archive
   * Bump standards version to 4.0.0

openvas-libraries (9.0.1-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

   * Import new upstream release

2016

openvas-libraries (9.0.0-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

   * Import new upstream release

openvas-libraries (8.0.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Import new upstream release

openvas-libraries (8.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Import upstream version to Debian (Closes: #835393)

openvas-libraries (8.0.7-0kali1) kali-experimental; urgency=medium

   * Import new upstream release
   * Add RADIUS support

2015

openvas-libraries (8.0.4-0kali1) kali-dev; urgency=medium

   * Import new upstream release
   * Update .install to add openvas-nasl-lint

openvas-libraries (8.0.1-0kali2) kali-dev; urgency=medium

   * Rebuild in kali-dev for libgcrypt20 and gnutls28 transition.

openvas-libraries (8.0.1-0kali1) kali; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release
   * debian/control: update build dependencies
   * Replace libopenvas7 with libopenvas8

2014

openvas-libraries (7.0.2-0kali2) kali-dev; urgency=medium

   * Rebuild in kali-dev for libgcrypt20 and gnutls28 transition.

openvas-libraries (7.0.2-0kali1) kali; urgency=medium

   * Rename source package to openvas-libraries like in upstream and debian
   * New upstream release
   * Move libraries to their multiarch location
   * Add a file debian/copyright

2013

libopenvas (6.0.0-0kali2) kali; urgency=low

   * Fix SYSCONFDIR, LOCALSTATEDIR and LIBDIR paths during configure in debian/rules.

libopenvas (6.0.0-0kali1) kali; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Upgrade debhelper compat level to 9 to enable hardening without
     hardening-wrapper.
   * Update debian/rules to be dh-based.
   * Switch to “3.0 (quilt)” source format.
   * Rename libopenvas5-dev to libopenvas-dev (non-versioned).
   * Replace libopenvas5 package by libopenvas6.
   * Update the build dependencies to match cmake's checks.

2012

libopenvas (5.0.4-1kali0) kali; urgency=low

   * Upstream update

2011

libopenvas (5.0+beta2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - A bug which caused outdated cache files to be used under rare circumstances
       has been fixed.
     - Code cleanup and refactoring has taken place in NVT meta data management.
     - Libssh detection has been improved.
     - The LDAP auth DN validation has been improved.
     - Support for the observer role has been added and functionality for user
       management has been moved from openvas-administrator to openvas-libraries.
     - Support for name conversion for legacy .nes dependencies when loading the
       cache has been removed.

libopenvas (5.0+beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Support for improved SSH functionality has been added.
     - Support for comprehensive network scanning with nmap has been added.
     - A number of compiler warnings have been addressed.
     - Support for shared sockets has been removed.
     - OpenVAS Libraries will now honor the unscanned_closed_udp preference when
       deciding how an unscanned UDP port should be treated.
     - Nmap support has been improved.

libopenvas (4.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - OpenVAS Libraries will now honor the unscanned_closed_udp preference when
       deciding how an unscanned UDP port should be treated.
     - Compiler warnings from gcc 4.6 have been addressed.

libopenvas (4.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The handling of internal dependencies while linking has been improved,
       parallel builds of openvas-libraries should now work.
     - Two potential resource leaks reported by Pavel Sejnoha and Henri Doreau have
       been fixed.
     - The setting "unscanned_closed" is now properly applied to UDP ports.

libopenvas (4.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - A bug which caused only the first NVT dependency to be considered has been fixed.
     - A bug which caused WMI connects to fail has been fixed.

libopenvas (4.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The LSC RPM creator support script is now installed correctly.
     - The build environment has been consolidated.
     - A bug which could cause a segmentation fault when using IPv6 under certain
       circumstances has been fixed.
     - The check for administrative user privileges has been made more strict.

libopenvas (4.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Setting file handling has been updated to match changes in openvas-scanner.
     - Support for pkg-config has been (re-)introduced.
     - File locations have been adjusted to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy
       Standard.

libopenvas (3.99.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The build environment has fixed in a number of places to restore expected
       behaviour after the move to cmake.
     - The documentation has been updated to match the changes in the build
       environment.

libopenvas (3.99.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Improved and fixed remote LDAP authentication.
     - Former binary ".nes" NVTs "find_service", "openvas_tcp_scanner"
       and "synscan" are now built-in NASL methods.
     - Any autotools-related build environment was removed.
     - At top-level a cmake-based build environment was introduced.
     - libopenvas_omp: Activated escaping of characters so that
       special characters can more save be allowed for some OMP commands.
     - example_auth.conf was updated with more sensible values.
     - Bug fix on Credential creation.
     - this package now initially creates required directories in the
       installation directory (if not present). This was done by other
       modules previously (mostly openvas-scanner)
     - Many old code paths for certain operting system environments
       have been removed. Most likely, HPUX, Solaris and similar
       won't compile this code anymore.

libopenvas (3.99.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The user creation process has been made more robust.
     - More compiler warnings have been addressed.

2010

libopenvas (3.99.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The documentation in the INSTALL_README file has been updated.
     - A number of compiler warnings by gcc 4.4 has been addressed.
     - A incorrect error message during user creation that only occurred in setuid
       environments has been removed.

libopenvas (3.98.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Further code cleanup has lead to the removal of more than 3,500 lines of
       unused code.
     - A bug which tried to free memory that was not allocated before under some
       circumstances has been fixed.
     - Superfluous log messages regarding file uploads have been removed.

libopenvas (3.98.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Network level scan support.
     - The code for providing OMP functionality has been cleaned up.
     - Further code cleanup has lead to the removal of more than 3,500 lines of
       unused code.
     - A bug which tried to free memory that was not allocated before under some
       circumstances has been fixed.
     - Superfluous log messages regarding file uploads have been removed.
     - NVT meta data management has been improved, resulting in a smaller memory
       footprint of the scanner.
     - The install path for header files has been made more consistent.

libopenvas (3.1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Significant memory leaks are closed.
     - Bug fix for handling shared file descriptors that now
       prevents unnecessary use of new file descriptiors under
       certain circumstances.
     - Little fix in the nasl wmi api.

libopenvas (3.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     * A bug in the WMI interface stub which caused the build to fail when configured
       without WMI has been fixed.

libopenvas (3.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     * Cross compile support for mingw32 has been added to libopenvas/base.
     * Missing copyright and license information has been added to a number of files.
     * The COPYING file has been updated to better indicate the licenses of
       individual files and the full text for all licenses has been added.
     * The WMI infrastructure has been updated to match necessary changes in the API
       of the WMI patch.
     * The documentation on using WMI in libopenvas has been updated.

libopenvas (3.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add openvas-nasl to libopenvas3-dev

libopenvas (3.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Code cleanup: Code from openvas-administrator and openvas-manager which could
       be more appropriately placed in libopenvas has been moved here.
     - Initial support for LDAP authentication has been added.
     - IPv6 support has been improved.
     - Support for building parts of libopenvas on Windows has been added.
     - Support for reading preference file uploads from memory instead of from disk
       has been added.
     - Support for NTLMSSP has been added.
     - Authentication mechanism extended to support LDAP and ADS.
     - An issue which caused SSH logins with RSA keys on remote systems to fail under
       certain circumstances has been fixed.
     - Support for logging to syslog has been added.
     - Support for scanning virtual web hosts has been added.

libopenvas (3.1.0.rc3) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - An issue which caused the build to fail on Gentoo GNU/Linux systems has been
       fixed.
     - An issue which caused openvas-client, openvas-cli and openvas-manager to fail
       to build with libopenvas has been fixed.

libopenvas (3.1.0.rc2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - QA: A number of compiler warnings have been addressed.
     - Authentication mechanism extended to support LDAP and ADS.
     - An issue which caused SSH logins with RSA keys on remote systems to fail under
       certain circumstances has been fixed.
     - A bug which caused segmentation faults when using NTLMSSP authentication in
       libopenvas built with WMI supports has been fixed.
     - Support for logging to syslog has been added.
     - Support for scanning virtual web hosts has been added.

libopenvas (3.1.0.rc1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Code cleanup: Code from openvas-administrator and openvas-manager which could
       be more appropriately placed in libopenvas has been moved here.
     - Initial support for LDAP authentication has been added.
     - A bug which caused WMI support to be disabled in the standalone NASL
       interpreter has been fixed.
     - IPv6 support has been improved.
     - Support for building parts of libopenvas on Windows has been added.
     - Support for reading preference file uploads from memory instead of from disk
       has been added.
     - Support for NTLMSSP has been added.

libopenvas (3.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The build infrastructure for the hg and misc modules has been switch to CMake
       from autoconf.
     - Support for resuming tasks has been added to OMP.
     - Packet forgery support for IPv6 has been improved.
     - A build issue on Mandriva has been fixed.

libopenvas (3.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Several build issues on Mandriva have been fixed.
     - Support for using libopenvas in C++ code has been introduced for some
       OMP libraries.
     - The openvas-nasl standalone NASL interpreter is now linked dynamically.
     - A bug which caused some GnuTLS error messages to be printed to stderr instead
       of to the logs had been fix.
     - Support for registry hives has been added to the WMI registry functions.
     - Support for detecting libraries in non-standard locations during the
       configuration process has been added.
     - Support for multiple levels of subdirectories in the NVT directory has been
       improved.

libopenvas (3.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Initial support for dropping privileges.
     - New crypto functions and support for SMB NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.

libopenvas (3.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Support for modifying scanner configuration files has been added.
     - The API for retrieving settings has been improved.

libopenvas (3.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - The OMP API has been updated.
     - An unnecessary GnuTLS call has been removed.
     - Minor code cleanups.

2009

libopenvas (3.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - IPv6 support
     - WMI-Client support (optional)
     - Integration of openvas-libnasl
     - New library "base"
     - New library "omp"
     - Former libopenvas renamed to libopenvas_misc
     - New NVT cache implementation to overcome limitations
     - Several files from openvas-client integrated
     - Use of "cmake" to build base, omp and nasl
     - glib dependency raised from 2.6 to 2.12

libopenvas (2.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

libopenvas (2.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

libopenvas (2.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

libopenvas (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Updated the control file to take account of translation work as part
     of the Smith review project
   * Fixed broken linking (linker-libs.dpatch)

libopenvas (2.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Brown paper bug upload: Restore the changes introduced since 1.0.1-5
   * Make proper versioned binary packages for this library
   * Add a Build-Depend on libglib2.0-dev (Closes: 511627)
   * Conflict against libopenvas1-dev

libopenvas (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

2008

libopenvas (2.0.0.beta2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

libopenvas (2.0.0.beta1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Cleaned up the rules
   * Updated copyright

libopenvas (1.0.2-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * Not released yet

libopenvas (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Add Tim and myself to Uploaders
   * Set Debian Maintainers Mailing List as Maintainer
   * Add Vcs-Headers
   * Bump Standards Version to 3.8.0, no changes needed
   * Remove trailing whitespaces from EOL and EOF in debian/*
   * Move Section to right place for libopenvas in control
   * Also depend on libgnutls-dev, libpcap-dev for -dev
   * Remove debian/*.dirs since unneeded

libopenvas (1.0.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix the Makefile so that the library is linked with the appropriate
     libraries. Also change libopenvas.tmpl
   * Drop the libgpgme11-dev Build-Dep, we actually don't need it, none of the
     sources build use the gpgme.h header.

libopenvas (1.0.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Minor updates to control and copyright file to fix issues highlighted
     by jfs in regard to the priority and copyright of the packaging
     respectively
   * Minor update to control to fix differing dependency between
     libopenvas and openvas-libnasl as highlighted by jfs

libopenvas (1.0.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Minor update to control file, fixed dependency on ${source:Version} substvar

libopenvas (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Minor updates to control file, now lists jfs as uploader, fixed deprecated
     ${Source-Version} substvar, Build-Depends directive
   * Minor update to rules file, DH_COMPAT environment variable no longer required
   * Minor update to libopenvas2-dev.install

libopenvas (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

libopenvas (1.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

2007

libopenvas (0.9.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Minor updates to the control and copyright files

libopenvas (0.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release