Download Nessus 3.1.2 beta

Nessus is a security scanner that can scan a network for known exploits and open services. Please note that the program may only be used if you have permission to check the security of the network. The long list exploits and outstanding services can be further expanded with own written scripts. Since the switch to largely rewritten 3.0.x branch, it is unfortunately no longer released as open source, why the developers took this step is at this page to read. The developers are busy preparing version 3.2 and have released a beta version with 3.1.2 as the version number. This includes the following announcement:

Nessus 3.2 beta available for testing

Today, Tenable released Nessus 3.1.2 for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris which is a beta version of the upcoming Nessus 3.2. Nessus 3.2 contains the following new features:

• Experimental IPv6 support
• Improved bandwidth throttling
• Extended nessusd.rules to add support for ports and plugins
• New command ‘nessuscmd’ which lets you do a quick command-line scan
• Improved NASL engine
• Easy-update : Nessus can now update its own engine thru the use of a single command (nessus-update)

Detailed information about these features is available on the download site. Thanks for testing this release and sending your feedback to deraison(at)nessus.org.