[sqlmap-users] sqlmap state of art - 4 years later

[Bernardo D. A. G. <ber...@gm...>]

Hi,

sqlmap is nearly 4 years and a half old.. older than my daughters ;)

In the last 12 months a lot has been going on under the hood. Miroslav
and I have been working hard trying to fix as many bugs reported as
possible, getting back to You as promptly as possible and scheduling
the development of new shiny features, some of them proposed by You.

First and foremost, I would like to sincerely thank Miroslav for all
of the amazing effort that he has put into the project as well as
users' support. He joined me about a year ago. Since then he has
demonstrated high professionalism, brilliant design and analytical
capabilities and strong development skills driven by his outstanding
motivation. Thank you!

In my 'state of art - 3 years later' email[1] I highlighted the main
goals achieved during 2009 and my plans for the next release. What's
the state now, a year later?

* The post-exploitation features have been stabilized, slightly
improved and bug-fixed.
* I can still confirm that we keep receiving a lot of great feedback
from You, thank you! Your bug reports, feature requests and dumb
questions too keep sqlmap community alive and drive our motivation
even further.
* The media attention to the tool is approximately vanished, as I have
not presented at big name Conferences this year.
* I don't think the tool is still the most downloaded tool in the
category, might be, but sourceforge now allows to see only the weekly
downloads of tools from the search page. However, who really cares.
* The detection and comparison engine has been bug fixed, partially
rewritten and highly improved by Miroslav - I told you, he is awesome!
* My call for developers is still open, quality assurance and beta
testers are needed too. Some native English speaking would be of help
to improve the user's manual too.

What have we achieved during 2010? The ones that regularly update from
the Subversion repository, read the ChangeLog file or asked us
directly, already know about some of the new features, but we would
like to take the time to better introduce, explain and demonstrate
them in a series of posts to the mailing list that will follow in the
upcoming weeks. We hope that this will clarify design decisions that
we have made, make you smile seeing your feature requests implemented
and have a strong understanding on how to use the tool efficiently.
These will all be part of the next release: 0.9, scheduled for early
2011. Stay tuned!

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ffa432520912150559x7da484d0q5a580512abf4592f%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=sqlmap-users

Cheers,
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Bernardo Damele A. G.

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