Release BeEF version 0.5.1.0

[bcoles]

A lot of things have been fixed in the last year.

It is probably time for a new point release.

@jcrew99

[jcrew99]

Sounds like a good idea. There seems to be some defect tags that should be fixed before the new release though. Let's get them fixed as soon as possible.

[wheatley]

Heya,

I'll close that other issue.

I think we should a release sooner rather than later.
We can always do some future releases for other defects.

What has been the process for this?

My versioning was wrong it should be @bcoles suggestion

[bcoles]

What has been the process for this?

Tag a new release using the GitHub ui or git :

git tag -a beef-0.5.1.0 -m 'BeEF version 0.5.1.0-alpha'
git push origin beef-0.5.1.0

The versioning is a bit messed up. The most recent release is the vaguely named ActiveRecord merge which doesn't describe a version. The most recent tag is v0.5.0.0 compared with the previous tag beef-0.4.7.3.

[wheatley]

hey all lets put a target date for next Tuesday to create this release.

I'll start to put together a list of all the merges that has happened.

[wheatley]

hey,

list of fixes for this release

Added libcurl4-openssl-dev to apt command #1807
Added JSDoc to backend JS API #1813
Fixed Active Record tables #1814, #1816
Removed LiveCD directory and reference in Metasploit config.yaml #1815
Replaced yaml.load with yaml.safe_load #1816
Use SecureRandom for API token generation #1817
Updated copyright for 2021 #1821
Fixed broken admin ui access #1845
Fixed test to run in random order #1848
Improvements for AssetHandler #1853
Requester extension fixes #1858
Updated Ruby to 2.7.x for Travis
Use OID-style key/value data for BrowserDetails network details #1861
Fixed build_recursive_tree() #1866
Added error handling when loading extensions #1873
Auto get geoipdb changed access #1870
Upates to Network Serivce model #1885
Fixed bug in ARE execution #1886
Changed how websocket hooked browsers time out #1888
Updating portscanner for modern browsers
Made travis.ci only run on master #1893
Create SW Port Scanner
Remove arerule from enabled by default #1895
Updated command js for more functionality #1896
Added a new rvm language for the docker container #1897
Updated command.js for sw_network_proxy #1898
General spelling mistake fixes #1912
Replace autocomplete_theft with get_autocomplete_creds #1874
BrowserStack Integration #1920
Bump jsdoc-to-markdown from 5.0.3 to 6.0.1 #1933
sudo for gem install for Kali #1940
ruby package manager check #1940
Fixed array unique function in browser.js #1966
Fixed Pretty Theft Missing Credentials JS Error #1956
Fixed ARE New Zombie Execution Error #1957
Update dependencies Sinatra, rack, Rack Protections, Ugifier, Nokogiri, Rake and OTR Active Record #1961
Fix country_code is null #1975
Update contextis url in config.yml #1982
Fix XSSRays error when using ActiveRecord #1984
Excluded hooking subnet improvements #1973
Click Jack Attack CSS fixes #2046
Include URI query string in proxied requests #1971
Bump nokogiri version due to CVE #2048
Fix could not find table webcloners #2010
AdminUI: Use correct hook file path for bookmarlet hook URL #2099
Fix No connection pool for 'ActiveRecord::Base' found #2134
 
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[jcrew99]

@wheatley Looks good, that makes it more apparent that the release is severely needed. Are you fine to create the pull request to change the version?

[bcoles]

For reference, here's the diff since v0.5.0.0:

v0.5.0.0...beefproject:master

[wheatley]

I'm going to create a release branch to update the appropriate areas.

why do we use

version: '0.5.0.0-alpha-pre' instead of just using 0.5.0.0?
do we need to make it 0.5.1.0-alpha-pre?

[bcoles]

I'm going to create a release branch to update the appropriate areas.

why do we use

version: '0.5.0.0-alpha-pre' instead of just using 0.5.0.0?
do we need to make it 0.5.1.0-alpha-pre?

The versioning is kind of silly. BeEF is perpetually alpha software (and thus "alpha" is implied).

I don't remember what the original intention was, but many years ago we switched to adding the -pre suffix while modifying on master, then stripping -pre for the release, then tagging the release, then incrementing the version number and immediately re-applying the -pre suffix.

[bcoles]

Taking a look at the previous releases, they all take the form of:

• tag name: beef-0.4.3.1
• title: BeEF version 0.4.3.1-alpha

[wheatley]

We've released this version.