0.4 is Available Now

The official Websecurify 0.4 is available for download from the usual place over here.

This release contains many design and performance improvements. For more information, check the built-in documentation.

Websecurify 0.4 Release Candidate 2 is Out

Websecurify 0.4 Release Candidate 2 is out. This release fixes several bugs and improves the UI of the workspaces and tasks windows. There are several other minor improvements as well. This is probably going to be the last RC for 0.4 unless more bugs are found in the next couple of days.

The RC can be downloaded from the usual place over here.

Help Us Make Websecurify Better

We've setup a feedback form for you to help us make websecurify the best it can be. The form is located here. It will be great if you can spend a couple of minutes to give us a change to get you know better and to make sure that we do a better job with the next release.

Thanks!

A Few Words About Websecurify Versions

Because Websecurify is quite dynamic runtime, you should expect to see new releases quite often (pretty much every month or so). Some of these releases have special versioning and meaning which I would like to walk you through.

First of all, every single websecurify version contains a number which specifies the milestone release it is part of. For example 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, etc are part of the Websecurify 1.0 milestone release. On the other hand 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.9 are part of the Websecurify 2.0 milestone release.

Between these version we have loads of alpha, beta and RC releases. Alpha and Beta releases contain the keyword Alpha or Beta in the version string, followed by a sequential number, i.e. 0.5Alpha1, 0.5Beta1. You should expect to find a lot of bugs in these release and they are targeted to developers only.

RC releases, meaning Release Candidate, are versions of the product which are almost ready for primetime use. You should expect only a few bugs if any when you are trying a release candidate. RC versions are composed of the keyword RC followed by a sequential numbers just like the Alpha and Beta releases, i.e. 0.6RC1.

In order to simplify the testing stages, the Websecurify runtime is configured to use different naming conventions and to install in different places based on its version. For example 0.5 shall replace/upgrade the previous 0.4 release while 0.6RC1 will install an independent version. This means that developers and users can try out developing versions along side the stable version of the product.

So, do not hesitate to download the latest Alpha, Beta or RC release and give it a try. It is safe.

Websecurify 0.4RC1 is Available Now

The first release candidate of Websecurify 0.4 is available for download. This version can run side-by-side with the 0.3 stable release so if you want to give it a bash, now is the time.

The key improvements in this version are:

• Better, more responsive UI
• Support for Workspaces
• Nicer looking tasks
• Better reporting with ability to export to various formats
• Rewritten testing engine with some major improvements
• Tests can be paused, stopped and resumed
• Integrated help system
• Integrated preferences system
• Introduction to various internal APIs and support libraries for extension developers
• Standardisation of all UI controls
• Full internationalization support (translations are in progress)
• Many other improvements

This version was aimed to provide a base for future developments. In other words, we hope that features, components and some libraries will remain frozen in future version. Changes will be introduced only for bug fixes. This is done to ensure that extension authors have a solid base they can rely on.

A huge amount of effort was thrown into making sure that the code is concise and easily readable. Almost every single component and library follows a similar structure which means that there are less things to become familiar with.

This version also makes an extensive use of reusable components. 99% of the code can be reused in other projects.

You can download 0.4RC1 from the official download list over here.