What's new in Metasploit Express 4.0.0
Aug 4, 2011
- This release marks the first major version change in five years. Please see the blog for more information.
- Several import parsers were rewritten to use Nokogiri for much faster processing of large import files.
- Adding to Metasploit's extensive payload support, Windows and Java Meterpreter now both support staging over http and Windows can use https. In a similar vein, POSIX Meterpreter is seeing some new development again. It still isn't perfect nor is it nearly as complete as the Windows version, but many features already work.
- Java applet signing is now done directly in ruby, removing the need for a JDK for generating self-signed certificates.
- The Linux installers now ship with ruby headers, making it possible to install native gems in the Metasploit ruby environment.