(26 Feb 2015)    Version 1.6.45
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Github tag: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/tree/1.6.45
Github milestone: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues?milestone=10

* HTTP response parsers are now run in a different process
* Added support for SSL's SNI using OpenSSL
* Added support for scanning servers with specific SSL protocols disabled (poodle)
* Added new platforms to the dependency check
* Updated sqlmap
* Performance improvements in core classes
* Improved profiling capabilities (internal use only)
* Improved exception handling to catch more descriptive tracebacks
* Added new plugins for web sockets and RFD
* Better error handling for HTTP requests
* Huge reducion of memory usage in phishtank plugin 

(12 Jun 2014)    Version 1.6.0.3
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Github tag: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/tree/1.6.0.3
Github milestone: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues?milestone=10

* Fixed HTML plugin #2880
* Improved dependency checks #2766 #2703
* Fixed bug in user_dir plugin #2445
* Improved dependency check help for installation in CentOS 6.5 #2067

(05 May 2014)    Version 1.6.0.2
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Github tag: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/tree/1.6.0.2
Github milestone: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues?milestone=10

* Fixing Kali packaging bugs in our code
* Minor performance enhancements and code cleanups

(31 Mar 2014)    Version 1.6
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Github tag: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/tree/1.6
Github milestone: https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues?milestone=7

* The core and plugins now use the producer/consumer model: Faster scans.
* "import w3af": Easily embed w3af in other python tools
* Running +1300 unittests on each push to the repository: Stability

(10 Nov 2011)    1.1
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    * Considerably increased performance by implementing gzip encoding
    * Fixed hundreds of crashes
    * Fixed critical bug in auto-update feature
    * Merged changes from different branches to support webUI
    * Enhanced embedded bug report system using Trac's XMLRPC
    * Enhanced integration with other tools (bug fixed and added more info to the file)


(25 May 2011)    1.0 - stable!     
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    * Fixed hundreds of bugs that made the project crash
    * Implemented auto-update feature for w3af
    * Refactoring of URL handling from strings to url_object
    * Wrote hundreds of lines of unit-tests
    * Initial implementation of PHP static code analyzer
    * Enhanced web application security payload implementation

    Details can be found @ Trac:

        * https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/query?group=status&milestone=critical-bugs-before-stable
        

(10 Jan 2011)    1.0 - release candidate 5     
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    * Using bloom filters instead of disk_list: increased performance ~15%
    * Fixed most of the bugs that cause w3afMustStopExceptions
    * Updated XML output plugin
    * Added doctests and unittests with pymock
    * Updated all scripts in order to pass the "./w3af_console -t" test
    * Added new plugin to measure the number of hops for port 80 vs 443

    Details can be found @ Trac:

        * https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/query?group=status&milestone=owls-sprint-4
        * https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/query?group=status&milestone=owls-sprint-5
        * https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/query?group=status&milestone=owls-sprint-6
        * https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/query?group=status&milestone=owls-sprint-7
