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On December 17th, 2008, the OpenVAS developer team released OpenVAS 2.0.0 which marks the start of the next generation of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System for network security scanning.

In late September 2008, the OpenVAS developer team released the 2.0-beta1 version of OpenVAS, the Open Vulnerability Assessment System for network security scanning.
The intended audience for this beta release are experienced users interested in upcoming features as well as developers of vulnerability checks.

The OpenVAS Team calls for submission of patches, scripts, converters or anything else that significantly improves the OpenVAS framework and extends Open Source Network Vulnerability Testing. Participants have the chance to win up to 500 Euro, the deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2008.

The OpenVAS project has released the first stable version of the "Open Vulnerability Assessment System". OpenVAS is a fork of the Nessus security scanner; while Nessus switched to a proprietary license, OpenVAS will continue to improve the scanner and will provide all components as Free Software.