Nmap 5.50 released

With an amusing title, "Nmap 5.50: Now with Gopher protocol support!", Nmap lead Fyodor announced the most recent release of the network exploration tool on January 28. It does indeed come with Gopher support, but other new features may be of wider interest: "A primary focus of this release is the Nmap Scripting Engine, which has allowed Nmap to expand up the protocol stack and take network discovery to the next level. Nmap can now query all sorts of application protocols, including web servers, databases, DNS servers, FTP, and now even Gopher servers! Remember those? These capabilities are in self-contained libraries and scripts to avoid bloating Nmap's core engine."

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