Editing Nmap (section)

==History==
Nmap was first published in September 1997, as an article in [[Phrack Magazine]] with source-code included.<ref name="phrack51">{{cite magazine |url=http://phrack.org/issues/51/11.html#article |magazine=[[Phrack Magazine]]|title=The Art of Port Scanning |volume=7 |issue=51 |date=1997-09-01 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> With help and contributions of the computer security community, development continued. Enhancements included operating system fingerprinting, service fingerprinting,<ref name="vscan" /> code rewrites ([[C (programming language)|C]] to [[C++]]), additional scan types, protocol support (e.g. [[IPv6]], [[SCTP]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.roe.ch/Nmap_SCTP |title=SCTP Support for Nmap |website=Roe.ch |date=2011-05-10 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>) and new programs that complement Nmap's core features.

Major releases include:<ref name="changelog" />
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|1998|12|12}} || Nmap 2.00 || Nmap 2.00 is released, including Operating System fingerprinting<ref name="book-history">{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/book/history-future.html#history |title=The History and Future of Nmap |publisher=Nmap.org |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|1999|04|11}} || NmapFE || A [[GTK+]] front end, is bundled with Nmap<ref name="book-history" />
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2000|12|07}} ||  || Windows port<ref name="changelog">{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/changelog.html |title=Nmap Changelog |publisher=Nmap.org |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2002|08|28}} ||  || Rewrite from C to C++<ref name="changelog" />
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2003|09|16}} ||  || The first public release to include service version detection<ref name="changelog" />
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2004|08|31}} || Nmap 3.70 ||Core scan engine rewritten for version 3.70. New engine is called ''ultra_scan''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2004/10 |title=Nmap 3.70 Released—Core Scan Engine Rewrite! |publisher=Seclists.org |date=2004-08-31 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;" | Summer 2005 ||  || Nmap selected for participation in [[Google Summer of Code]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2005/7 |title=Google sponsors Nmap summer student developers |publisher=Seclists.org |date=2005-06-02 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> Added features included Zenmap, Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), [[Ncat]], and 2nd-generation OS detection.
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2007|12|13}} || Nmap 4.50 || Nmap 4.50, the 10th Anniversary Edition, was released. Included Zenmap, 2nd-generation OS detection, and the Nmap Scripting Engine<ref>{{cite web |url=https://insecure.org/stf/Nmap-4.50-Release.html |title=Nmap 4.50 Press Release |publisher=Insecure.org |date=2007-12-13 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2009|03|30}} || style="white-space:nowrap;" | Nmap 4.85BETA5 ||Emergency release of Nmap 4.85BETA5, leveraging NSE to detect [[Conficker]] infections<ref>{{cite web |url=https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q1/870 |title=Nmap 4.85BETA5: Now with Conficker detection! |publisher=Seclists.org |date=2009-03-30 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2009|07|16}} || Nmap 5.00 || Included [[netcat]]-replacement Ncat and Ndiff scan comparison tool<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/5/ |title=Nmap 5.00 Released |publisher=Nmap.org |date=2009-07-16 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2011|01|28}} || Nmap 5.50 || Included Nping packet generation response analysis and response time measurement, including TCP, UDP and ICMP probe modes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/nmap/nmap|title=nmap/nping/docs/nping.1 at master · nmap/nmap|website=GitHub}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2011/0 |title=Nmap 5.50: Now with Gopher protocol support! |publisher=Seclists.org |date=2011-01-28 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2012|05|21}} || Nmap 6.00 || Released with full IPv6 support.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2015|11|09}} || Nmap 7.00 <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/7/ |title=Nmap 7 Released |publisher=Nmap.org |date=2015-11-19 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> || 
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2016|12|20}} || Nmap 7.40 || 
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2018|03|20}} || Nmap 7.70 <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/changelog.html#7.70 |title=Nmap 7.70 |publisher=Nmap.org |date=2018-03-20 |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> || 
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2019|08|10}} || Nmap 7.80 <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/changelog.html#7.80 |title=Nmap 7.80 |publisher=Nmap.org |date=2019-08-10 |access-date=2019-08-10}}</ref> || 
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| style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;" | {{Start date and age|2020|10|03}} || Nmap 7.90 <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/changelog.html#7.90 |title=Nmap 7.90 |publisher=Nmap.org |date=2019-10-03 |access-date=2020-10-03}}</ref> || The new fingerprints allow better operating system and service/version detection. 3 new NSE scripts, new protocol library and payloads for host discovery, port scanning and version detection. Npcap 1.0.0, the first fully stable version of the Windows raw packet capturing/sending driver.

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