File Release Notes and Changelog

This is the first release candidate of the openvas-scanner module for the
Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) 3.1 series.

This release adds support for soft pausing of scans, for retrieving the version
of an installed NVT collection, for automatically installing generated client
certificates and for storing uploaded preference files in memory.

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

Main changes compared to 3.0.2:

* A bug in the openvas-nvt-sync script which prevented synchronization via http
  under certain circumstances has been fixed.
* The build environment for C based NVTs has been cleaned up.
* Code formatting has been improved in a number of files to match the coding
  style.
* Support for retrieving the version of the NVT collection has been added to the
  openvas-nvt-sync and greenbone-nvt-sync scripts.
* Support for soft pausing of scans has been added.
* Support for automatically installing generated certificate file has been added
  to the openvas-mkcert-client script.
* The obsolete C based NVT "ssl_cipher" has been removed from the
  openvas-scanner module. It has been replaced by the NASL implementation
  "secpod_ssl_ciphers.nasl".
* Support for storing an uploaded preference file in memory instead of on disk
  has been added.