Nessus 3.2 is out with lot of a cool features

Tenable Network Security is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.0, as well as NessusClient 3.2.0. Nessus 3.2.0 is a major release, containing several changes from Nessus 3.0.x :

New Features

• Support for IPv6 targets (for the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X flavors)
• Support for limiting the number of active TCP sessions in parallel (per host, per scan, per scanner)
• A new nessuscmd tool that lets one run quick scans from the command-line
• A new nessus-update tool that lets one update the Nessus engine from the command-line (on select platforms)
• The Nessus daemon can now detect hosts which are being turned off during the scan and stop scanning them
• The Nessus daemon can now detect when the network is congested and change the TCP settings appropriately
• Nessus user account access control rules are now more granular and can be used to prevent the scanner from connecting to certain ports or to use certain plugins
• The nessus command-line tool can read and write to and from a .nessus file
• Improved WMI support (see http://cgi.tenablesecurity.com/tenable/WMI.html)

Nessus 3.2.0 can be obtained at http://www.nessus.org/

Nessus documentation is available here: http://www.tenablesecurity.com/documentation/

-- Anish