gvm-tools 2.1.0

2.1.0 - 2020-04-03

Added

• Allow to specify hostname for SSH and TLS connections in the config file #239

Changed

• The script random-report-gen.gmp is able to add host, host details, os
  and application data now, so the created reports are more realistic
  PR 218,
  PR 220
  PR 225
• The script random-report-gen.gmp now uses argparser, to improve its usage PR 223
• Use .py ending for all gmp scripts to support auto highlighting PR 244
• Updated glossary in the documentation to reflect changes in GVM 11 PR 245
• Replaced pipenv with poetry for dependency management. poetry install
  works a bit different then pipenv install. It installs dev packages by
  default and also gvmtools in editable mode. This means after running
  poetry install all gvm-tools scripts are available in the created virtual
  environment. PR 246
• Fixed version handling after switching to poetry #249

Fixed

• Exit with an error, if the check_gmp.gmp script is used with an temporary path, that has not the correct permissions.
• Fixed update-task-target.gmp to create unique target names to support Gmpv8
• Fixed an error, where the --sockpath argument didn't worked as expected PR 216
• Catch exception from gvm lib PR 222 PR 224
• Fixed send-targets.gmp throwing an exception due to an improper check PR 248
• Fixed send-targets.gmp : hosts and exclude_hosts expecting lists PR 248

gvm-tools 2.0.0

This is the first stable release of the gvm-tools 2 series. Compared to the last beta release it contains the following changes:

Added

• Added --duration switch to gvm-cli for command execution measurement PR 206
• Added --ssh-password switch for ssh connection PR 140
• Added a new console line interface gvm-script for only running GMP and OSP
  scripts without opening a python shell PR 152
• Forbid to run any gvm-tools cli as root user PR 183
• Added error message if invalid XML is passed to gvm-cli PR 198
• Added argument --pretty to gvm-cli to pretty format xml output
  PR 203

Changed

• Improved error messages if unix socket could not be found PR 78
• The structure for the config file (default is ~/.config/gvm-tools.conf) has
  changed. It's possible to set defaults for nearly all command line arguments
  PR 140
• The command line help for gvm-cli and gvm-pyshell has been updated and
  made more consistent PR 138
• Renamed --ssh-user switch to --ssh-username PR 140
• Update gvmtools.get_version to return a fully compliant PEP 440
  version string PR 150
• Refresh the dependencies specified via the Pipfile.lock file to their latest
  versions PR 186,
  PR 193
• Dropped global command line arguments from sub commands e.g. it must be gvm-cli --config foo.conf socket ...
  instead of gvm-cli socket --config foo.conf now. The latter didn't work actually but
  was listed in the --help output #194
• Improved error message if a global argument is passed after the connection type to gvm-cli
  #196
• Renamed clean-slave.gmp to clean-sensor.gmp PR 202

Deprecated

• Only running scripts with gvm-pyshell is deprecated PR 152
• [Auth] section in config file is deprecated and will be ignored in future
  releases PR 160

Fixed

• Fix a bug which caused gvm-pyshell to immediately re-enter interactive mode
  upon exiting it for the first time PR 139
• Support [Auth] section in config file for backwards compatibility PR 160
• Fix using correct API to get single task and targets in update-task-target.gmp
  script PR 188

gvm-tools 2.0.0.beta1

gvm-tools got split into the command line interfaces (gvm-cli and gvm-pyshell) including the
gmp (example) scripts and the Python API. The Python API can now be found at python-gvm. During this split the python package name for the API got changed from gmp to gvm. The API has also been refactored and stabilized. For details please take a look at python-gvm.

Scripts

• It's now possible to write OSP scripts. Using the --protocol=OSP switch
  gvm-pyshell adds a global osp object instead of the gmp one.
• The __name__ variable is set to __gmp__ for GMP scripts and to __osp__
  for OSP scripts (Remember: for normal Python scripts __name__ is set to
  __main__).
• Scripts are only getting two global variables now: gmp (or osp)
  and args. gmp and osp are the global objects to communicate with
  the remote gvmd or ospd daemon. args contains the parsed arguments for
  the script.
• The global args object only contains script related parameters now. These
  username and password from the --gmp-username and --gmp-password switches and
  the additional scripts parameters as args.argv.
• GMPError got renamed to GvmError and must be imported from gvm.errors module.

  from gvm.errors import GvmError as GMPError

• Added new client helper module.
• pretty function isn't available as a global function in the scripts anymore.
  It must be imported separately like

  from gvmtools.helper import pretty_print as pretty

• The included gmp scripts
  have been cleaned up and adjusted for the new API.
• It's possible to get the current versions of gvm-tools via __version__ and
  python-gvm via __api_version__.

Other

• Removed experimental gvm-dialog application.
• Use pipenv for development.

GVM Tools v1.4.1

This is the first maintenance release of the gvm-tools module 1.4 for the
Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework.

This release covers bug fixes in 'create' and 'modify' methods.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Raphael Grewe, Juan Jose Nicola and Jan-Oliver Wagner

Main changes compared to gvm-tools-1.4.0:

• Fix bugs for create and modify command methods.
• Improve unit tests.
• Improve documentation.

GVM Tools v1.4.0

This is the first release of the gvm-tools module 1.4 for the
Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework.

This release covers bug fixes, robustness improvements and an extended GMP
scripts collection.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Raphael Grewe, Mirko Hansen, Henning Häcker, David Kleuker, Juan Jose Nicola,
Timo Pollmeier, Bjoern Ricks, Joshua Schwartz, Jan-Oliver Wagner and
Michael Wiegand.

Main changes compared to gvm-tools-1.3.1:

• Correct XML encoding for commands
• Fix bug for long GMP commands through SSHConnection
• Add new GMP scripts: create_targets_from_host_list.gmp,
  gen-random-targets.gmp, send-schedules.gmp, send-targets.gmp,
  send-tasks.gmp, send_delta_emails.gmp, startAlertScan.gmp,
  update-task-target.gmp.
• Improve and extend 'create' and 'modify' command methods
• Add support for accessing the raw response
• Improve unit tests
• Allow anonymous connections
• Require lxml and defusedxml python modules
• Improve documentation
• Several code improvements

GVM Tools v1.3.1

New release 1.3.1