Metasploit Framework 5.0 Released!
From the post:
We are happy to announce the release of Metasploit 5.0, the culmination of work by the Metasploit team over the past year. As the first major Metasploit release since 2011, Metasploit 5.0 brings many new features, as well as a fresh release cadence. Metasploit’s new database and automation APIs, evasion modules and libraries, expanded language support, improved performance, and ease-of-use lay the groundwork for better teamwork capabilities, tool integration, and exploitation at scale.
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Get it (and improve it)
As of today, you can get MSF 5 by checking out the 5.0.0 tag in the Metasploit Github project. We’re in the process of reaching out to third-party software developers to let them know that Metasploit 5 is stable and ready to ship; for information on when MSF 5 will be packaged and integrated into your favorite distribution, keep an eye on threads like this one. As always, if you find a bug, you can report it to us on Github. Friendly reminder: Your issue is a lot more likely to get attention from us and the rest of the community if you include all the information we ask for in the issue form.
Contributions from the open source community are the soul of Metasploit. Want to join the many hackers, researchers, bug hunters, and docs writers who have helped make Metasploit awesome over the years? Start here. Not into Ruby development? Help us add to our Python or Go module counts.
A beginning set of release notes for Metasploit 5.0 is here. We’ll be adding to these over the next few months. As always, community PRs are welcome! Need a primer on Framework architecture and usage? Take a look at our wiki here, and feel free to reach out to the broader community on Slack. There are also myriad public and user-generated resources on Metasploit tips, tricks, and content, so if you can’t find something you want in our wiki, ask Google or the community what they recommend.
See all the ways to stay informed and get involved at https://metasploit.com.
Before rushing off to put Metasploit Framework 5.0 to use, take a moment to consider contributing back to the Metasploit community.
The near panic for new cybersecurity hires and code to protect against attacks can only result in new security fails and vulnerabilities. Metasploit needs your help to keep up with self-inflicted security issues across government and business entities.
With your help, the CIA, and NSA will be defaulting to Metaspoilt Framework 5.0 as their default desktop hacking app! Of course, neither the CIA nor the NSA can endorse or acknowledge their use of Metaspoilt but one can dream!