Acunetix WVS 8 Released Candidate Now Available!

We are pleased to announce a Release Candidate (RC) of the much-awaited Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, version 8. This build fixes issues that were reported during the Beta stages of development and also adds a number of improvements which boost the accuracy of checks and make the scanning process even more intuitive and user friendly.
 
Improvements:

 The accuracy of Script Checks has been increased. The Acunetix development team is dedicated to continuously improve scan detection of security checks.
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been enhanced in order to make menu navigation and usage easier and more effective than ever before.
SSL security audit script is launched automatically when scanning a HTTPS website, regardless if port scanning is enabled or not.
Added a number of new SQL Injection variants checks.

Bug Fixes:

 HPP detection security script failed when testing input scheme with excluded variants
 Apply settings button not showing up in specific cases
Fixed several issues related to pausing and resuming of crawler
Fixed several issues when running multiple instances of the reporter
Two backup files were being generated because of filename case insensitivity
Filtering of wildcards from robots.txt

This release candidate of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 is considered complete, stable, and suitable for testing.
Testing Acunetix WVS Version 8 RC:
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