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    Nmap was first released in 1997 and has since grown significantly in size and capabilities. It added OS detection in 1998, a graphical user interface in 1999, and support for techniques like IP ID scanning in 2001. Google sponsored Nmap development in 2005 and 2006. The Nmap Scripting Engine was released in 2006 and expanded Nmap's functionality. Recent versions have continued adding features like SCTP scanning and large fingerprint databases, with the tarball now over 50MB. Nmap remains actively developed and aims to enhance both its core scanning abilities and additional utilities.

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    Nmap was first released in 1997 and has since grown significantly in size and capabilities. It added OS detection in 1998, a graphical user interface in 1999, and support for techniques like IP ID scanning in 2001. Google sponsored Nmap development in 2005 and 2006. The Nmap Scripting Engine was released in 2006 and expanded Nmap's functionality. Recent versions have continued adding features like SCTP scanning and large fingerprint databases, with the tarball now over 50MB. Nmap remains actively developed and aims to enhance both its core scanning abilities and additional utilities.

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    Nmap was first released in 1997 and has since grown significantly in size and capabilities. It added OS detection in 1998, a graphical user interface in 1999, and support for techniques like IP ID scanning in 2001. Google sponsored Nmap development in 2005 and 2006. The Nmap Scripting Engine was released in 2006 and expanded Nmap's functionality. Recent versions have continued adding features like SCTP scanning and large fingerprint databases, with the tarball now over 50MB. Nmap remains actively developed and aims to enhance both its core scanning abilities and additional utilities.

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    The History And Future Of Nmap

    September 1, 1997 — Nmap is first released in Phrack magazine Issue 51, Article 11. It doesn't have a
    version number because new releases aren't planned. Nmap is about 2,000 lines long, and compilation is
    as simple as gcc -O6 -o nmap nmap.c -lm.

    September 5, 1997 — Due to popular demand, a slightly improved version of the Phrack code is
    released, calling itself version 1.25. The gzipped tarball is 28KB. Version 1.26 (48KB) is released 19 days
    later.

    January 11, 1998 — Insecure.Org is registered and Nmap moves there from its previous home at the
    DataHaven Project ISP.

    December 12, 1998 — Nmap version 2.00 is publicly released, introducing Nmap OS detection for the
    first time after several months of private development.

    April 11, 1999 — Nmap 2.11BETA1 is released. This is the first version to contain a graphical user
    interface as an alternative to the traditional command-line usage.

    April 28, 2000 — Nmap 2.50 is released. By this point the tarball has grown to 461KB.

    July 9, 2001 — The Nmap IP ID idle scan is introduced with Nmap 2.54BETA26. A paper describing the
    technique is released concurrently.

    July 31, 2002 — Nmap 3.00 is released. The tarball is 922K.

    August 28, 2002 — Nmap is converted from C to C++ and IPv6 supported is added as part of the Nmap
    3.10ALPHA1 release.

    September 16, 2003 — Nmap service detection is publicly released as part of Nmap 3.45.

    February 20, 2004 — Nmap 3.50 is released. The tarball is now 1,571KB.

    August 31, 2004 — The core Nmap port scanning engine is rewritten for Nmap 3.70.

    June 25, 2005 — Google sponsors 10 college and graduate students to work on Nmap full time for the
    summer as part of Google's Summer of Code initiative.

    September 8, 2005 — Nmap gains raw ethernet frame sending support with the release of version 3.90.

    January 31, 2006 — Nmap 4.00 is released. The tarball is now 2,388KB.

    May 24, 2006 — Google sponsors 10 more Nmap summer developers as part of their SoC program.

    June 24, 2006 — After two years of development and testing, the 2nd generation OS detection system is
    integrated into Nmap 4.20ALPHA1.

    December 10, 2006 — The Nmap Scripting Engine is released as part of Nmap 4.21ALPHA1.
    July 8, 2007 — The Zenmap graphical front end (back then it was called Umit) is improved and
    integrated into the Nmap 4.22SOC1 release for testing.

    June 1, 2008 — Nmap 4.65 is released and includes, for the first time, an executable Mac OS X installer.
    The Nmap source tarball is now four megabytes.

    September 8, 2008 — Nmap 4.75 is released with almost 100 significant improvements over 4.68.

    October 4, 2008 — The Nmap Documentation Portal is launched at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/.

    January 23, 2009 — Added Ncat, a feature-packed networking utility which reads and writes data across
    a network from the command line.

    January 23, 2009 — Added the Ndiff utility which compares the results of two Nmap scans,

    March 30, 2009 — A special Nmap release (4.85BETA5) is produced to remotely detect the Conficker
    worm which has infected millions of machines on the Internet.

    June 12, 2009 — Added SCTP port scanning and host discovery support to Nmap.

    July 16, 2009 — Released Nmap 5.00. The tarball is more than 27MB and contains 2,003 OS fingerprints,
    5,512 version detection signatures, and 59 NSE scripts.

    March 29, 2010 — Added Nping.

    January 28, 2011 — Released Nmap 5.50.

    May 21, 2012 — Nmap 6 was released! The tarball is more than 54MB.

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