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This is the first release of the openvas-manager 6.0 module for the Open
Vulnerability Assessment System release 8 (OpenVAS-8). The OpenVAS Manager is
the central management service between the actual security scanner and various
user clients.

OpenVAS Manager 6.0 introduces a large number of new and improved features, for
example scanner management, the alternative use of PostgreSQL as database back
end and Quality of Detection (QoD) information. It also introduces the new roles
"Guest", "Monitor" and "Super Admin". Please see the comprehensive list below
for more details.

Please make sure to read the INSTALL file for important installation and
migration information, even and especially if you have used OpenVAS Manager
before.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Benoît Allard, Michal Ambroz, Hani Benhabiles, Henri Doreau, Michael Meyer,
Matthew Mundell, Timo Pollmeier, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.

Main changes compared to the 5.0 series:
* OpenVAS Manager now supports the alternative use of PostgreSQL as database
  back end instead of SQLite3.
* Support for Scanner Management has been added. This includes the configuration
  part for scanners accompanied with a new set of OMP commands (create_scanner,
  get_scanners, modify_scanner, delete_scanner and verity_scanner). Next, it
  covers the extensions of tasks with the selected scanner type and the
  extension of Scan Configurations to reflect different scanner types.
* Support for the new SecInfo subtype CERT-Bund Advisory (CERT_BUND_ADV) has
  been added.
* Support for QoD (Quality of Detection) information has been added.
* Support for mixing objects owned by different users has been extended.
* Support for a "Guest" role has been added.
* Support for a "Monitor" role has been added.
* Support for a "Super Admin" role has been added.
* Support for associating ESXi credentials with targets has been added.
* The new OMP command "GET_AGGREGATES" has been added in order to deliver data
  tables for use in diagrams.
* Support for task charts has been added.
* Support for filtering NVTs based on their script_tags has been added.
* A new "Modify Task" wizard has been added.
* Support for displaying solution type information has been added.
* Support for internal database optimization has been added.
* Support for ownership of users, roles, groups and permissions has been
  introduced.
* Support for the changing of user names has been added.
* Support for Once-off schedules has been added.
* Support for limiting the number of times a task runs with a periodic schedule
  has been added.
* Support for splitting the CPE dictionary has been added to the SCAP data
  synchronization script.
* The "xml_split" helper script for splitting SCAP data is now installed by
  default.
* Report powerfilters now support the "timezone" keyword.
* The OMP version is now included in reports.
* Tasks on slaves are now stopped when the controlling master is terminated.
* Alterable task now stay alterable even when their last report has been
  removed.
* Solution type information is now included in report formats.
* OpenVAS Manager will no longer abort if previous attempts to the rebuild or
  update the database have failed.
* The results table and the OMP results objects have been extended.
* The "Anonymous XML" report format has been added.
* Support for displaying host authentication results has been added to the
  LaTeX, PDF and HTML reports.
* The GET_INFO command can now be used for NVTs as well.
* Support for "openvasrc" files has been removed from OMP.
* For SSH credentials, the certificate is now extracted from private key when
  needed.
* Preemptive Scanner connecting has been removed. Manager now only connects on
  NVT cache update or task starting, resuming and stopping. This improves
  response time.
* Support for the task pausing feature has been removed. This includes the
  removal of OMP commands "pause_task" and "resume_paused_task".
* Support for the target locators feature has been removed. This includes the
  removal of the OMP command "get_target_locators".
* The "--slisten" and "--sport" command line options have been removed as they
  are now part of the scanner properties.
* An issue which caused individual NVT timeout values to not be transferred
  to slaves has been fixed.
* The "--list-users" command line option has been renamed to "--get-users".
* The "--role" command line option now applies to "--get-users" as well.
* The "get_results" OMP command now behaves more consistent with other get_...
  OMP commands.
* The task name is now included in more report formats.
* The value of the NVT tag "affected" is now included in more report formats.
* The performance has been improved in a number of places.
* The strategy of SQL retries in high-load situation has been improved.
* The handling of user groups when dropping privileges has been improved.
* The manager will now retry starting of scheduled tasks when the start OMP fails.
* Sorting of numerical values has been improved.
* Library checks during package configuration have been improved and are now
  more comprehensive and consistent.
* Signal handling has been improved.
* The OMP protocol documentation has been updated.
* Code cleanups.