GVM Libraries v21.4.0

Added

• Use dedicated port list for alive detection (Boreas only) if supplied via OSP. #391
• Allow to re allocate the finish flag in the host queue for alive tests.
  #407
  #410
• Add multiple severities for nvti #317 #472
• Add support for new OSP element for defining alive test methods via separate subelements. #409
• Add v3 handling to get_cvss_score_from_base_metrics. #411
• Add severity_date tag in epoch time format. #412
• Make more scanner preferences available to openvas-nasl. #413
• Use memory purge redis command when initializing new kb. #452

Changed

• Add separators for a new (ip address) field in ERRMSG and DEADHOST messages. #376
• Continuously send dead hosts to ospd-openvas to enable a smooth progress bar if only ICMP is chosen as alive test. #389
• Retry if response via tls1.3 is still not received. #394
• Replace current implementation of alive test arp ping with version using libnet. #423
• Let setup_log_handlers return an error if it does not have write access to some log file or log dir instead of aborting immediately.
  #447
  #451
• Fix openvas preference name. The option was rename to "allow_simultaneous_ips". #461
• Do not start the sniffer thread when only consider alive is chosen for alive test. #466]

Fixed

• Fix finish_signal_on_queue for boreas. #464

Removed

• Remove handling of severity class from auth #402
• Remove version from the nvticache name. #386