Release date: 02-May-2013

• Introduce dnsdict6 - new external component for:
  Information Gathering / Network Analysis / DNS Analysis
  dnsdict6 v1.8 (c) 2011 by van Hauser / THC [email protected] www.thc.org
  Example:

    "hackersh.org" -> domain -> dnsdict6("-4 -s") -> ...

• amap, nikto, nmap, ping, w3af, xprobe2, and browse: Change DEFAULT_QUERY to evaluate context['IPV4_ADDRESS'] before context['HOSTNAME']

• Introduce ipv6_address - new root component for processing IPv6 Address. Example:

    "::1" -> ipv6_address -> ...

• Introduce domain - new root component for processing domain names. Example:

    "hackersh.org" -> domain -> ...

• Implement HackershError Exception class and add 3 new error messages:

  XXX: not enough data to start (if Component Filter is False)

  XXX: command not found (if Ext. Component filename is missing)

  XXX: unable to parse (if all Output Handlers failed)

• Split hackersh/network.py and hackersh/misc.py into multiple files and implement a simple plug-in architecture to load them during startup

• Add support for BackTrack 5R3 and 5R2

See the full change log for further details.