Nmap 4.22SOC1 available

 The UMIT graphical Nmap frontend is now included (as an ALPHA TEST release) with the Nmap tarball distribution. It isn’t yet in the RPMs or the Windows distributions. UMIT is written with Python/GTK and has many huge advantages over NmapFE. It installs from the Nmap source tarballs as part of the "make install" process unless you specify —without-umit to configure. Please give UMIT a try (the executable is named umit) and let us know the results! We hope to include UMIT in the Windows Nmap distributions soon.

 The port selection mechanism was overhauled. Nmap now knows (roughly) how common various services are, so you can specify options such as —top-ports 50 to scan the 50 most popular ports. You can also use the new —port-ratio option to scan ports above a given popularity level. You can also now give the -p option service names (such as ’http’) and wildcards (such as http* to include services such as https and http-mgmt). There is also a bracket ([]) operator for scanning all known ports within a given range. All these changes, by Doug Hoyte, are described at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q2/0224.html .

 Added more Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total to 31. The new ones are bruteTelnet (Eddie Bell), SMTPcommands (Jason DePriest), iax2Detect (Jason), nbstat (Brandon Enright), SNMPsysdescr (Thomas Buchanan), HTTPAuth (Thomas), finger (Eddie), ircServerInfo (Doug Hoyte), and MSSQLm (Thomas Buchanan).

 Added the —reason option which explains WHY Nmap assigned a port status. For example, a port could be listed as "filtered" because no response was received, or because an ICMP network unreachable message was received. [ Eddie ]

 Integrated all of your 2nd generation OS detection submissions, increasing the database size by 68% since 4.21ALPHA4 to 699 fingerprints. The 2nd generation database is now nearly half (42%) the size of the original. Please keep those submissions coming so that we can do another integration round before the SoC program ends on August 20! Thanks to David Fifield for doing most of the integration work!

Full changelog here.