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Version 0.6.1 - August 1st, 2025

01 Aug 17:06
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
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Version 0.6.1 - August 2, 2025

Changelog:

  • Updated version from 0.5.5 to 0.6.1
  • Improved SSL/TLS security with comprehensive cipher suite support (TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, SSLv3, SSLv2)
    • Added SSL_ATTRIBUTES constant for verify_mode
    • Replaced dynamic SSL parameter collection with explicit SSLContext configuration
    • Set verify_mode to VERIFY_NONE for maximum compatibility
    • Enabled negotiation of all SSL/TLS versions including legacy SSLv2/SSLv3
  • Enhanced HTTPS connection handling with optimized verification settings
    • Cleared minimum version restrictions and disabled protocol exclusion flags
    • Added fallback handling for different OpenSSL configurations
  • Added dual-protocol feature: simple hostnames (without paths or ports) are now scanned using both HTTP and HTTPS protocols
    • Automatically creates and tests both HTTP and HTTPS versions of simple hostnames
    • Shows informational message when dual-protocol scanning is performed
    • Intelligently detects and avoids duplicate URL scanning with redirect handling
  • Added robust input validation and error handling
    • Automatically aborts processing after 10 consecutive parsing errors
    • Prevents wasted resources when processing invalid data sources
    • Provides helpful error messages to guide users in troubleshooting input issues
    • Handles various error cases including malformed URLs and non-URL input data
  • Improved dependency management with Bundler group support
    • Reorganized Gemfile with proper optional group definitions for mongo and rchardet
    • Added clear installation instructions for optional dependencies
    • Set explicit version constraints for test dependencies
    • Added support for older Bundler versions through GEMFILE_GROUPS environment variable
  • Expanded documentation for optional dependencies
    • Added detailed installation instructions for MongoDB support
    • Added clear steps for character set detection configuration
    • Provided combined installation commands for all optional features
    • Improved explanation of performance implications

This release introduces three new search contexts for plugin authors to use:

  • uri.path
  • uri.query
  • uri.extension

An example of how to use this is from the PHP plugin.

# File Extension
{ :name=>"File extension", :regexp=>/^(php|phtml|php3|php4|php5|phps)$/, :search=>"uri.extension" }

FIXES

  • #311 - JSON Logging fails... UTF-8 can't modify frozen String (@juananpe)

MISC

  • Refactored Helper::convert_to_utf8. Droped Ruby 2.0 support (@urbanadventurer)
  • Added new search contexts for plugins: uri.path, uri.query, uri.extension (@urbanadventurer)

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urbanadventurer, juananpe, and 2 other contributors
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Version 0.5.5 release

15 Jan 14:58
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.5
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Version 0.5.5 release

Version 0.5.5 - January 16, 2021

🔨 1 fix, 8 new plugins, and 3 plugin updates. Thanks for all the community contributions! 👏

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Version 0.5.4 release

14 Dec 05:00
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.4
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Version 0.5.4 release

Version 0.5.4 - December 14, 2020

This is a minor release with three new plugins ✨, and one plugin updates 🔨.

🔧 FIXES

  • #345 Fixed colour output problem with white text being invisible when users have a white terminal background (@urbanadventurer)
  • #347 Fixed MongoDB compatibility logging issue (@juananpe)

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Version 0.5.3 release

02 Oct 02:17
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.3
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Version 0.5.3 release

Version 0.5.3 - October 1, 2020

This is a minor release with miscellaneous changes ✨, seven new plugins 🚀, and two plugin updates ⚙️.

🔧 MISC

  • #319 MongoDB logging now uses upsert (update by default, insert if new) (@juananpe)
  • #314 Makefile now allows supports the PREFIX environment variable (@bfontaine)

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Version 0.5.2 release

09 Jun 19:26
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.2
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Version 0.5.2 release

Version 0.5.2 - June 9, 2020

🔧 This is a minor update with 🐞 bug fixes, and one ✨ new plugin, PHP-Slim.

FIXES

  • #299 Fixed warning: URI.escape is obsolete error by using the Using Addressable Gem. Thanks @weidsom (Weidsom Nascimento)
  • #306, #307 Improvements to Makefile. @xambroz
  • #304 Log level for mongodb-logger is set to "FATAL", unless WhatWeb is run with debug-mode enabled. @helsecert

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Version 0.5.1 release

25 Feb 15:25
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.1
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Version 0.5.1 release

Version 0.5.1 - February 25, 2020

This is a minor release with bug fixes, one new plugin, and a couple of plugin updates. 😄

FIXES

  • #275 Makefile now installs on macOS
  • #286 typo for --cookie-jar commandline option.
  • #283 path loading issue when whatweb is installed as a symlink. @abenson and @blshkv
  • #288 error with JSON output when the target list is empty
  • #289 removed empty object from end of JSON output
  • #293 and #294 Fix MongoDB output @LrsK

MISC

  • Makefile now installs a symlink in the PATH
  • CHANGELOG.md and INSTALL.md files are now in MarkDown format
  • Removed requirement for open3 gem in Integration Tests

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Version 0.5.0 release

04 Oct 07:35
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.5.0
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Version 0.5.0 release

Version 0.5.0 - October 4, 2019

Version 0.5.0 is a major version release form @urbanadventurer and @bcoles. 👏 With the help of the WhatWeb community we have reached over 1800 plugins!

⚠️ Plugin authors should take note that this release is not backwards compatible, and we have made a migration tool to help you update your private or unreleased plugins.

FEATURES

  • Added WhatWeb Logo and icons
  • Added IDN (International Domain Name) support
  • Merged 31 new plugins by Bhavin Senjaliya and 22 plugin updates from the unofficial WhatWeb gem at https://rubygems.org/gems/whatweb/
  • Added 9 unit tests
  • Added loading cookies from a FILE with --cookie-jar=FILE in the document.cookie format
  • Added Migration tool to convert plugins to the v0.5 format in plugin-development/migrate-plugins-to-v0.5.rb
  • Refactored and modularised the codebase -- @urbanadventurer and @bcoles

FIXES

  • Bug fix - Ruby 2.4 and 2.5 OpenSSL issue
  • Bug fix - Fixed ElasticSearch version 6+ issue
  • Bug fix - SQL output issue
  • Bug fix - In HTTP Auth parsing @rmaksimov
  • Fix bug causing WhatWeb to exit with no output. Thanks @mguillau42 for tracking down this race condition.
  • Typo fix. Thanks Jose Nazario (@paralax)
  • Bug fix - clean incorrent UTF-8 byte sequences when loading from file @dirtyfilthy

MISC

  • Updated all plugins with an authors array to show multiple authors
  • Plugin list now shows plugin names and websites instead of a truncated plugin description.
  • Updated the usage help. Reduced the size of the short usage help.
  • Better error reporting in commandline options
  • Updated README and converted to Markdown format
  • Updated manpage
  • Plugins instance variable handling improvement. @Code0x58
  • Plugin name defined within plugin as variable. @Code0x58
  • Changed from functions to blocks for passive and aggressive plugins. @Code0x58
  • Changed plugin locking @Code0x58
  • Changed the behaviour of --grep to only output results that match the grep plugin
  • Changed the behaviour of --grep so regexp or text can be matched
  • Removed feature --follow-redirect same-domain because it relies on the out-dated TLD library for valid TLDs and SLDs
  • Removed requirement for 'nmap' and now use the IPAddr gem for IP address ranges. CIDR, x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x and x.x.x.x-x supported

PLUGINS

  • 48 new plugins from contributors
  • 31 plugins updated from contributors
  • 100+ plugin updates by Andrew Horton (@urbanadventurer)

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Version 0.4.9 release

23 Nov 12:34
@urbanadventurer urbanadventurer
v0.4.9
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Version 0.4.9 release
  • Added unit testing with rake @bcoles
  • Added Elastic Search output @SlivTaMere
  • Source code formatting cleanup @Code0x58
  • Thread reuse and logging through a single thread @Code0x58
  • Fixed max-redirection bug @Code0x58
  • Fixed bug when using a proxy and HTTPS (unknown user)
  • Fixed timeout deprecation warning @iGeek098
  • New plugins and plugin updates @guikcd @bcoles @andreas-becker
  • Added proxy and user-agent to logging @rdubourguais
  • Updated Alexa top websites lists
  • Updated update-alexa script
  • Updated IP to Country database
  • Updated man page
  • Updated Mongo DB output for Mongo 2.x
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