The latest version of nmap was released earlier this month, and if you haven’t already downloaded it, get on it, it has some awesome new features.

Probably the most interesting of the new features is the web spidering feature.

To improve the user experience, the Windows installer now installs various browser toolbars, search engine redirectors, and associated adware.

Feature breakdown:

  • a spidering library and associated scripts for crawling websites.
  • 51 new NSE scripts, bringing the total to 297.
  • a substantial decrease in the size of the Mac OS X installer due to the removal of PPC support.
  • a new vulnerability management library which stores and reports found vulnerabilities.

Mac OS X packages are now x86-only (rather than universal), reducing the download size from 30 MB to about 17.

Change Log can be found here and Download Here .

Alternatively add your repository into backtrack and do an apt-get install nmap.