Ruby Nmap::Parser Library

XML parsing was made faster. Callback support was added. Many new features and bugfixes were added.

This release fixes a state matching bug in methods like tcp_ports() in which a specified state would sometimes match an unrelated one. Now these methods properly match all states exactly as well as combinations like "open|filtered", as they should. parsestring() has been added to parse a string of XML data. A compare method has been added to ExtraPorts and Traceroute::Hop. scan_time in ::Session has been updated to use the new "elapsed" attribute. Exception messages raised by the library are improved. There are many documentation and general code improvements.

Port specification parsing code was enhanced. The
newer starttime and endtime host attributes
(individual host scan times) were added to ::Host.
The newer scanflags scaninfo attribute was added
as scanflags() in ::Session for printing the
scanflags associated with the specified scan type
(e.g. "PSHACK" for scan type "ack"). Various
implementation reworkings were done. Many
documentation updates were done.

This release contains many important updates and
bugfixes. All current users are urged to upgrade.

This release fixes a bug that caused parsing to fail if OS detection was performed but neither -v nor -d were used when scanning.