w3af v1.1 Released For Download – Web Application Attack & Audit Framework

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend.

Finally it’s out of BETA and RC and there’s now a stable core for the codebase.

New in v1.1

• Considerably increased performance by implementing gzip encoding
• Enhanced embedded bug report system using Trac’s XMLRPC
• Fixed hundreds of bugs
• Fixed critical bug in auto-update feature
• Enhanced integration with other tools (bug fixed and addedmore info to the file)

You can download w3af v1.1 here:

w3af-1.1.tar.bz2