The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source exploit development and testing environment. Version 2.1 fixes many issues that users have reported since the release of 2.0 and adds several new features. The bug fixes alone are more than worth the time to upgrade. . . .
The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source exploit development and testing environment. Version 2.1 fixes many issues that users have reported since the release of 2.0 and adds several new features.

The bug fixes alone are more than worth the time to upgrade. If you currently use the Framework under Windows, we strongly urge that you update to the 2.1 release; quite a few features and payloads simply don't work right with version 2.0 and Cygwin.

This release includes 21 exploits and 27 payloads; many of these exploits are either the only ones publicly available or just much more reliable than anything else out there.

The Framework will run on any modern system that has a working Perl interpreter, the Windows installer includes a slimmed-down version of the Cygwin environment. We have tested the Framework on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and Windows (NT, 2000, XP, 2003).

Some highlights in this release:
- Many Cygwin induced bugs fixed
- Improved msfconsole tab completion
- Fixed problems with logging functionality
- Improvements on msfpescan to scan memory dumps from memdump.exe
- socketNinja tool for doing all sorts of connection foo