Nessus versions

Scans for malware attackers targeting networks
Jul 5, 2025
Aug 8, 2024
6.5
Oct 16, 2015
Review
6.4
Jul 2, 2015
Review
6.3
Mar 4, 2015
6.2
Jan 21, 2015
Review
6.1
Nov 19, 2014
5.2
Apr 24, 2013
Review
5.0
Feb 15, 2012
Review
4.4
Nov 12, 2010
Review
4.2
Dec 2, 2009
Review
4.0
Apr 9, 2009
3.2
May 17, 2008
3.0
Dec 20, 2010
Sep 25, 2008

What's new

v6.2 [Jan 21, 2015]
New features:
- Compliance and System Hardening Policies.
- Compliance and System Hardening Policy Editor.
- Automatic Updating.
- Nessus RESTful API.
- New Policy Editor.
- Selective Host Re-Scanning.
Other Features and Enhancements:
- Cisco ISE Integration.
- Exporting Scan Results Workflow Improvements.
- Nessus Scanner Management Overview.
- Unified Scan View.
- New Compliance & System Hardening Policies.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Support.

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