Happy to announce the release of Nessus 8.3.0

Release Notes - 2019-03-26

New Features

The following are the new features included in the release:

• Flexibility for Reporting in Nessus Professional - Often there can be too much data; now Nessus enables you to select precisely which information is included when exporting PDF and HTML reports. As an example, a user can choose when exporting to only include the host information, vulnerability information, and vulnerability score when creating a report. The user can also select to save the export options as default for any subsequent exports.
• Performance updates for Agent deployments using Nessus Manager - Tenable made improvements to the processing time for scan results on Nessus Manager. The update includes disabling the inclusion of Audit Trail and KB data by default. As a best practice, it is recommended leaving these disabled for production environments. For testing/troubleshooting, both abilities can be re-activated for smaller agent groups if needed.
  • Additionally, new options to optimize agent data merge performance can be configured if desired and can provide additional speed-up. See the Agent Advanced Settings documentation for details on configuring these optimizations.
• Scan Template Updates - Similar to plugin updates, scan templates can be updated at various times. With this release, new policies and policy updates are now delivered automatically.
• Additional improvements include -
  • Added the ability to update the Offline registration license in the Nessus UI for scanners registered offline.
• Add a new Advanced Setting 
• plugin_output_max_size_kb
  • , defaulted to 1MB, to configure the maximum per-plugin output size for XML elements in .nessus reports.
  • Added various NASL improvements and bug fixes