
990201 :

- more plugins (180)
- ciphered communication layer between the client and the server
  (this is optional -- do './configure --enable-cipher' to 
   activate it)
- interplugins intercommunication (not very powerful yet)
- a great SIGSEGV hunt produced a more reliable program
- corrected a lot of problems regarding some DoS plugins
  under BSD
- corrected a lot of other bugs
- GTK 1.1 support
- definition of the NTP/1.2 protocol
- last version of the Alpha 1 stage -- now entering Alpha 2.

981016 :
- more plugins (120)
- firewalls support
- upgraded client
- smarter configure script which is now able to determine
  if your host is using the strange BSD byte ordering for
  sending IP packets (you need to be root to use this
  feature)
- corrected a problem regarding ICMP and Linux
- Solaris support

980914 :
- pthreads optional support (do './configure --enable-pthreads to
  activate it)
- cleaner includes
- better portability (improved configure script, better makefiles)
- compile under Unix and NT
- new plugins
- the code of the server is reentrant
- the code of the hostloop library is reentrant
- new reporting interface for the client
- bugs correction
- corrected problems regarding NTP/1.0 backward compatibility
- more detailed logs
- better thread management at source level
- Nessus-NT is quite as efficient as Nessus-Unix

980801 :
- new client interface
- the server can be configured remotely
- more plugins
- modified the communication protocol between the client
  and the server
- bugs corrections

980614 : 
- corrected some more bugs in the client
- better FreeBSD support
- modified the Nessus Transfer Protocol
- cleaned up and improved the nessuslib

980520 :
- minor bug correction on the client side (concerning the plugins sets)
- improved the scripts and #includes so that 
  Nessus should compile flawlessly under Solaris -- thanks to Nils Lohner
- Corrected a bug which would prevent nessusd to be used under NetBSD
- more plugins
  
980512 :
- tons of bugs correction
- (should) compile under FreeBSD as well as Solaris (at least the
  daemon and some plugins)
- better rules
- the client now has a set of preferences

980421 :
- better GUI
- support for AF_UNIX sockets
- correction of many bugs
- multi-users support
- better plugin descriptions
- now using Nmap 1.49
- libtool support (however, this broke statd and xcheck)
- the client can be command-line driven
- new plugins

980410 :
- bug fixes
- more plugins
- improved the client side
- improved the server side
- the compilation process should create less
  problems
- known to work with gtk 0.99.10
- corrected problems in the server
- corrected some minor problems with some plugins


980405 : 

- support for gtk 0.99.9
- suppression of compilation problems that
  were occuring under the RedHat Linux 5.0
