openvas-administrator 1.1.1 (2011-02-21)

This is the second release of the OpenVAS Administrator 1.1, the local and remote
administrative tool for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 4
(OpenVAS-4).

The release features improvements to build environment and logging
infrastructure. It also ensures stricter validation of the name of new users and
changes the parameter for the user name to --username/-u to be consistent with
other OpenVAS modules; the old --name/-n parameter will continue to work until
the next major release.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 1.1.0:
* The build environment has been consolidated.
* The logging behaviour when started with --verbose has been improved.
* The parameter name for the user name has been changed to --username/-u.
* User name validation has been added.


openvas-administrator 1.1.0 (2011-02-04)

This is the first release of the OpenVAS Administrator 1.1, the local and remote
administrative tool for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 4
(OpenVAS-4).

The release features several improvements to the build process, improved
documentation and better handling of password authentication.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 1.0.x:
* The default log level has been reduced to avoid logging sensitive information
  during normal operation.
* If the password for the new user has not been provided as a command line
  parameter, it will be requested interactively.
* OpenVAS Administrator now uses pkg-config to find required libraries.
* OpenVAS Administrator now provides a manual page for the openvasad binary.
* The installation is now compliant with Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS 2.3).


openvas-administrator 1.0.1 (2011-01-17)

This is the first maintenance release for the 1.0 series of the Administrator
module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

It improves LDAP-based authentication and add self-documentation
feature for the OpenVAS Administration Protocol (OAP) 1.0.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 1.0.0:
* Fixed behaviour for ldap-based authentication for Admin role.
* Added protocol documentation for OAP (html and rnc format,
  can be build with "make doc").
* Code hardening at compile time is now the default.
* Harmonized output of "--version" with other modules.


openvas-administrator 1.0.0 (2010-12-07)

This release is the 1.0.0 release of the OpenVAS Administrator. It is the
local and remote administrative tool for the Open Vulnerability
Assessment System (OpenVAS).

The mission of OpenVAS Administrator is to provide a unified
access for various administrative tasks such as creating and
configuring scan user accounts.
The Administrator can be used in two ways: As a command line
tool for direct changes on the respective system and as a
remote service. The remote service offers the OpenVAS
Administration Protocol (OAP) which is supported for example
by the web client Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA).
Release 1.0 is compatible with both, OpenVAS 3.1 and OpenVAS 4.

Main changes since 1.0+rc1:
* Handling of invalid commands in console mode has been made more consistent.


openvas-administrator 1.0+rc1 (2010-11-23)

This release is the first release candidate of the upcoming 1.0 release of the
OpenVAS Administrator. It is the central local and remote administrative service.
The remote service offer the OpenVAS Administation Protocol (OAP).
Release 1.1 is part of OpenVAS 4, the next generation of the
Open Vulnerability Assessment System.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 0.9.0:
* The build environment has been improved to be more consistent across different
  OpenVAS modules and to stay compatible with different openvas-libraries
  versions.
* Support for logging user creation, deletion and role changes has been added.


openvas-administrator 0.9.0 (2010-04-12)

This is the 13th development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hartmut Goebel, Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Felix
Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 0.8.0:
* A large amount of code which was duplicated from openvas-manager has been to
  openvas-libraries.
* The build environment has been further improved.
* Support for providing the authentication configuration via OAP has been added.
* Support for modifying user has been improved, a number of issues and
  inconsistencies has been addressed.
* New command line parameters for determining the feed version and the
  synchronization status and for starting a feed synchronization have been
  added.


openvas-administrator 0.8.0 (2010-04-12)

This is the 12th development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Stephan Kleine, Matthew Mundell and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes since 0.7.0:

* Communication with synchronization scripts launched by openvas-administrator
  has been improved; this should prevent synchronization processes from becoming
  defunct when they are finished.
* A number of build issues discovered by Stephan Kleine has been fixed.
* Support for retrieving the version of an installed NVT collect has been added.


openvas-administrator 0.7.0 (2010-02-05)

This is the 11th development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Christian Kuersteiner and Matthew Mundell.

Main changes since 0.6.0:

* When synchronizing with an NVT feed, the administrator now simply starts the
  synchronization script in the background instead of waiting for it to finish
  before continuing.


openvas-administrator 0.6.0 (2010-01-26)

This is the 10th development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell.

Main changes since 0.5.0:

* When creating a user, now scan hosts to be denied or
  allowed for this user can be specified.
* A user editor has been added and allows to change
  the host restrictions and the password
  (OAP command MODIFY_USER)
* OAP command CLIENT_GET_USERS now also provides the
  host restriction information.
* The log protocol filters entries where potentially
  a password may appear, so that passwords do not end
  up in a log file.
* uuid's are generated for each user.
* New package build dependency to uuid library.


openvas-administrator 0.5.0 (2010-01-19)

This is the ninth development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 0.4.0:

* Make it possible to sort the list of users.
* Setting retrieval has been improved.
* Feed synchronization has been improved.
* Added support for modifying settings.


openvas-administrator 0.4.0 (2009-12-21)

This is the eigth development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 0.3.0:

* A bug which cause defunct administrator processes to remain after feed
  synchronization has been fixed.
* Initial support for retrieving settings von configuration files has been
  added.


openvas-administrator 0.3.0 (2009-12-08)

This is the seventh development release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Felix Wolfsteller.

Main changes since 0.2.2:

* Pidfile handling has been made more robust.
* A number of possible resource leaks have been identified and fixed.
* The configuration and build process has been improved.
* Support for NVT feed synchronization has been added.


openvas-administrator 0.2.2 (2009-10-26)

This is the sixth developement release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Matthew Mundell, Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 0.2.1:

* Users can no longer delete themselves.
* Pidfile management has been factored out.


openvas-administrator 0.2.1 (2009-10-19)

This is the fifth developement release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Michael Wiegand and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 0.2.0:

* Command line options have been updated to resolve conflicting short options.


openvas-administrator 0.2.0 (2009-09-29)

This is the fourth developement release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Mattew Mundell, Felix Wolfsteller and Jan-Oliver Wagner.

Main changes since 0.1.3:

* Turned into a daemon, offering a initial version of
  the OAP (OpenVAS Administration Protcol)


openvas-administrator 0.1.3 (2009-09-16)

This is the third maintenance release of the openvas-administrator module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS). This module was formerly
known as openvas-config-manager.

This release brings a number of small improvements to the command line interface.

openvas-config-manager 0.1.2 (2009-07-14)

This is the second maintenance release of the openvas-config-manager module for
the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

It adds improved Debian packaging support and now ensure that the user
directory is created if it does not exist already when creating new users.

openvas-config-manager 0.1.1 (2009-06-18)

This is the first maintenance release of the openvas-config-manager module for the
Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

It fixes issues discovered after the 0.1.0 release, adds a source code
documentation infrastructure and packaging files for Debian.

openvas-config-manager 0.1.0 (2009-05-06)

This is the first public release of the openvas-config-manager module for the
Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

The OpenVAS Configuration Manager is intended simplify local and remote
administration of an OpenVAS server. This initial release contains functionality
for user management (adding and removing users, setting user rules). For
example, a new user can be added using the following command:

# openvascd -c add_user -n username -p password

More informationg about the command line arguments can be obtained using:

# openvascd --help


Please note that this module is still in an early development stage and not
intended for production use.
