NST Change Log
This document is used to indicate changes, new features and bug fixes as they occur for each release of the NST.
Changes may appear in the change log prior to the official release. This occurs as the developers often update the web site to match the current development area. As a side benefit, those interested in the future of the NST will get a glimpse at what is coming in the next release.
Developers working on the project should refer to the Developer Notes below which provides information on maintaining the change log file used to build this document.
| NSTv1.8.0 (not yet released) | ||
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| Date | ID | Description |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated open-vm-tools to version: v2008.01.23-74039. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated tcptrack to version: v1.3.0. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated snort to version: 2.8.0.2. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated php-base to version: 1.3.9. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated dictionarysearch to version: 3.0.0. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated reloadevery to version: 3.0.0. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated colorfultabs to version: 2.0.9. | |
| 2008-02-20 | Updated firefox to version: 2.0.0.12. | |
| 2008-01-30 | Added page: ../tools/console.html. This provides a place to experiment with JavaScript code that is cross browser (IE and Firefox) compatible. | |
| 2008-01-25 | Updated the syslinux to v3.60-1 as the current version included in Fedora 8 appears to have a bug that passes a truncated command line to the invocation of the kernel (/proc/cmdline was incorrect when doing a "server" boot). | |
| 2008-01-14 | Updated the nmbscan utility to v1.2.5. | |
| 2008-01-06 | 1841651 | Updated javascript_debugger to version: 0.9.87.2. |
| 2008-01-06 | Updated colorfultabs to version: 2.0.8. | |
| 2007-12-29 | Updated wireshark to version 0.99.7. | |
| 2007-12-29 | Updated snort to version 2.8.0.1. | |
| 2007-12-29 | Updated nikto to version 2.01. | |
| 2007-12-29 | Updated Log to version 1.9.13. | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated the firefox add on tidy (HTML Validator) to v0.8.4.2. | |
| 2007-12-28 | Updated firefox to version 2.0.0.10. | |
| 2007-11-30 | 1841651 | Added a firefox extension to provide a JavaScript Debugger (javascript_debugger). |
| 2007-11-30 | Updated nikto to version v2.00. | |
| 2007-11-17 | Added the bittwist Libpcap-based Ethernet packet generator: v1.0. | |
| 2007-11-15 | Added the open-vm-tools package (version: 2007.09.04-56574) to the distribution (to replace vmware-tools). NOTE: We created scripts to build a RPM for the open-vm-tools package which might prove useful to others. Run: src/bin/open-vm-tools_install to build on a configured NST development system. | |
| 2007-11-15 | Update firefox to version 2.0.0.9 for x86_64 build. | |
| 2007-11-02 | Update e1000 to version 7.6.9.2. | |
| 2007-11-02 | Updated firefox to version 2.0.0.9. | |
| 2007-10-24 | Added the following packages to the NST v1.7.0 distribution: mhash, mcrypt, libmcrypt, php-mhash and php-mcrypt. | |
| 2007-10-23 | Updated ntop to version: 3.3.4. | |
| 2007-10-20 | Downgraded libssh to version 0.11 (the newer version was incompatible with hydra). | |
| 2007-10-20 | Updated Numbers_Roman to version 1.0.2. | |
| 2007-10-20 | Updated firefox to version 2.0.0.8. | |
| 2007-10-19 | Added new nttcp: src rpm build v1.47. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated tightvnc to version: 1.3.9. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated tightvncwx to version: 1.3.9. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated pwgen to version: 2.06. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated phpSysInfo to version: 2.5.4. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated packETH to version: 1.4.1. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated partimage to version: 0.6.6. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated ndiswrapper to version: 1.48. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated mysqltcl to version: 3.03. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated madwifi to version: 0.9.3.3. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated libssh to version: 0.2. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated kismet to version: 2007.10.R1. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated ipsec-tools to version: 0.7. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated image_zoom to version: 0.3. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated honeyd to version: 1.5c. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated gpsbabel to version: 1.3.4. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated elinks to version: 0.11.3. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated unrar to version: 3.7.4. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated dmidecode to version: 2.9. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated dd_rhelp to version: 0.1.2. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated dd_rescue to version: 1.14. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated chntpw to version: 070923 (built from source, so it may work on x86_64 builds now). | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated cfdisk to version: 1.0. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated c3270 to version: 3.3.6. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated pr3287 to version: 3.3.6. | |
| 2007-10-18 | Updated firefox to version: 2.0.0.7. | |
| 2007-10-17 | Updated phpMyAdmin to version: 2.11.1.2. | |
| 2007-10-17 | Updated phpPgAdmin to version: 4.1.3. | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated jakarta-jmeter to version: 2.3. | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated the firefox add on dictionarysearch to v2.0.2. | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated the long_titles firefox extension version 1.3. | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated the firefox add on tidy (HTML Validator) to v0.8.4.0 (x86) and v0.8.4.1 (x86_64). | |
| 2007-10-16 | Updated colorfultabs to version: 2.0.7. | |
| 2007-10-13 | Updated jre to verion: 1.6.0_03. | |
| 2007-10-10 | Updated netw to version: v5.35.0. | |
| 2007-10-10 | Updated php-base to version: 1.3.8. | |
| 2007-10-10 | Updated snort to version: 2.8.0. Removed inline build. | |
| 2007-10-10 | Updated fwbuilder to version: 2.1.14. | |
| 2007-10-10 | Updated ntop to version: 3.3.3. | |
| 2007-09-05 | Updated argus to version: 3.5. | |
| 2007-08-12 | Updated fwbuilder to version: 2.1.13. | |
| 2007-08-11 | Updated nessus to version: 2.2.10. It appears that some of the GPL rules in this release do not build and/or install cleanly, but nessus does come up and the valid GPL rules appear to work. | |
| 2007-08-07 | Updated tcl to version: 8.4.13-16nothreads (required in move to Fedora 7). | |
| 2007-08-07 | Updated madwifi to version: 0.9.3.2-rc1 (required in move to Fedora 7). | |
| 2007-08-07 | Updated ndiswrapper to version: 1.47 (required in move to Fedora 7). | |
| 2007-08-07 | Updated snort to version: 2.7.0.1. | |
| 2007-08-04 | Updated snort to version: 2.7.0. | |
| 2007-08-03 | Updated ntop to version: 3.3.1. Now using a SubVersion build. | |
| 2007-08-03 | Updated jre to verion: 1.6.0_02. Also, updated the src/bin/jre_fetch_install script so that one can more easily install the JRE onto a NST development system. | |
| 2007-07-10 | Update wireshark to version 0.99.6. | |
| 2007-07-10 | Update e1000 to version 7.6.5. | |
| 2007-07-04 | Completed update of zabbix to version 1.4 (the Fedora team fixed and released a new zabbix package with the files necessary to setup zabbix). This required re-writing installation and updates to the nstzabbix script. | |
| 2007-07-04 | Updated phpSysInfo to version 2.5.3. | |
| 2007-06-09 | 1734052 | Updated the zabbix installation to support the new packaging and for version 1.4-2 release of zabbix. |
| 2007-06-09 | 1730933 | Replaced the gaim package with the pidgin package (Instant Messenger) as this occurred in the underlying Fedora Core 6 distribution. |
| 2007-06-09 | 1730308 | Updated the nsthdinstall script such that it does a better job at auto-dectecting the modules required for SATA attached hard disks. |
| 2007-06-09 | 1730306 | Paul finally got his hands on a SATA attached DVD drive and was able to update the auto_mnt_cdrom script and initial RAM disk such that the NST should now be bootable directly off of SATA attached CDROM and DVD drives. |
| 2007-06-09 | 1730239 | Updated the auto_modprobe_disk to better handle SATA devices. |
| 2007-06-06 | Updated webdeveloper to version 1.1.4. | |
| 2007-06-06 | Updated hydra to version 5.4. | |
| 2007-06-06 | Updated gpsbabel to version 1.3.3. | |
| 2007-06-06 | Updated firefox to version 2.0.0.4. | |
| 2007-06-06 | Updated e1000 drivers to version 7.5.5. | |
| 2007-06-04 | Updated jpgraph to version: 2.2. | |
| 2007-05-29 | 1727589 | Added the
gparted package. However,
as this package is fairly large, it is not currently part of the
default build. If you build your NST from scratch and would like to
include it in the build, add the following line to the bottom of your
configuration file (typically found at: "${HOME}/.nst/configure.sh" on
your development system):
#
# Include extra disk packages (like gparted)
#
PKGCATS=${PKGCATS} diskextra;
|
| 2007-05-27 | 1664203 | Updated the aircrack package to aircrack-ng. |
| 2007-05-27 | 1664412 | Updated NTFS components to use the ntfs-3g, fuse and ntfsprogs packages (enabling one to experiment with writing to NTFS drives). |
| 2007-05-26 | 1664398 | Replaced hping2 package with hping3. |
| 2007-05-24 | Updated php-base to version: 1.3.6. | |
| 2007-05-24 | Updated vmware-tools to version: 1.0.3. | |
| 2007-05-24 | Updated snort to version: 2.6.1.5. | |
| 2007-05-24 | Updated Putty to version: 0.60. | |
| 2007-05-22 | 1708682 | Updated the cfdisk package to version: 0.9.4. |
| 2007-04-27 | 1708682 | Added build/install script for ntop for Fedora Core 6. |
| 2007-04-27 | 1708682 | Added build/install script for firewalk for Fedora Core 6. |
| 2007-04-25 | 1708682 | Updated the cfdisk package to version: 0.9.2 (also switched to the GNU version of cfdisk). |
| 2007-04-24 | 1706398 | Added the standard tmpwatch package to the distribution. |
| 2007-04-11 | 1698313 | Added http://whatismyip.org/ to the default list of URLs used by the getipaddr script and removed another URL of a server which is no longer available. |
| 2007-04-02 | Updated firefox on i386 build to version: v2.0.0.3. | |
| 2007-04-01 | 1692345 | Updated the vmware-tools package to version: 1.0.2 and built the i386 modules and packages for the 2.6.20-1.293.fc6 Fedora Core 6 kernel. |
| 2007-04-01 | 1689183 | Fixed the chkconfig values in the file: /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd. This allows one to use the standard chkconfig command to enable the snort package to start up at system boot time (the prior values attempted to start snort too soon - before mysql was running). |
| 2007-03-29 | 1690682 | Fixed missing configuration file issue with the graphviz package. Also provided a patch for the current 1.5.0 systems. |
| 2007-03-29 | 1690692 | Finally completed initial implementation of a NST test framework. This should help aid in quality assurance. The goal is to provides a means to demonstrate problems. To verify that corrective actions remedy the identified problems. To verify that the problems do not re-appear in future versions. |
| 2007-03-25 | 1688425 | Finished initial implementation of AJAX framework for enhancing the NST WUI. We can proceed to the creation of "live pages". |
| 2007-03-21 | Updated ipmitool to v1.8.9. | |
| 2007-03-03 | 1607403 | Updated the Apache configuration files. The default behavior for the web server should be the same as in the past. However, it should be simpler for those to reconfigure the web server. |
| 2007-03-02 | Updated the way that NST WUI updates are built and deployed. Should clean up issue with the 'Click Here In A Few Moments' button after the new WUI is installed. | |
| 2007-02-25 | 1668012 | Created the "NST Wiki" and placed it on line. |
| 2007-02-24 | Updated snort build to version: v2.6.1.3. | |
| 2007-02-23 | Updated kernel to 2.6.19-1.2288.fc5. | |
| 2007-02-23 | Updated necessary HTML files so we can start working on the next release (NOTE: It took awhile as the shell services at SourceForge.net have been down for the past 11 days). | |