[Burp-users] burp-1.4.40 is now the 'stable' version

[Graham K. <gr...@gr...>]

Hello,

2.0.20 remains the 'latest' version.
1.4.40 is now the 'stable' version.
1.3.48 is now the 'old stable' version.

Benjamin Sans (ziirish) also has a new release of burp-ui. He will be replying
to this email shortly with his announcement containing all the details.

In the last two months, I have been working on burp-2 - I will send an email
with the changes when I do the 2.0.22 release in the next few days.

I also spent a lot of time in July setting up an automatic test system for
burp-2 using Amazon Web Services.
So now, when I push a change to my local git repository, it kicks off a test
script that:
* Starts up a 64 bit Ubuntu AWS machine
* Starts up a 64 bit Windows 2012 Server AWS machine
* Copies the source to the Linux machine
* Builds burp on the Linux machine, plus the Windows installers
* Runs unit tests on the Linux machine
* Runs end to end tests on the Linux machine (acting as server and client)
* Runs end to end tests on the Windows machine (with the Linux machine as the
  server)
* If everything completes OK, the installers are copied back to my house. I
  can then push the code changes to github and choose to release the
  source/installers. If there was some failure, I attempt to fix the failure
  and resubmit the changes.

I have also been adding a lot of test cases to try to seek out bugs and fix
them. This is making burp-2 stronger and giving me confidence that the parts
covered by the tests work well. This also includes a lot of protocol 1
functionality. It is getting to the point where I am more confident about
burp-2.0.22 (both protocols) than burp-1.4.40.
I am initially only using two AWS machines as AWS let you try two for free for
a year (although I think that the data transfer is costing me something). But
if this proves to be successful, I would like to add to it. For example, 32 bit
Windows/Linux machines, and some kind of BSD.
It would also be good to include a Mac somehow, but AWS don't provide them.

Alternatively, these test machines don't need to be in AWS. If anybody has
a spare representative machine that they think would be useful to include in
testing, which I can have an ssh account on, we can try adding it to the
automatic tests.

Special thanks go to the following donors for financially supporting burp
during July:

Donations for 2015-07:
 *     £100.00 Romain L.
 *     £100.00 Patrick V.
 *      £50.00 Damien H.
 *      £40.00 Tobias R.
 *      £10.00 Jason H.
 *       €0.18 Flattr

I will put the August list on the burp-2.0.22 email.